Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, shares the origins of the software that has changed personal pages and blogs more than any other in the industry.
Ever charming, humble and likeable, he’s also a comfortable, capable story-teller. Enjoy!
We’re about to upgrade to WP 3. Thank you, Matt!
Protect The Ocean has been providing essential information about BP’s Gulf Oil Spill since the very beginning. They were amongst the first to speak out against the use of dispersing agents, warning of both the horrific result and the dishonest intent of BP in deploying the solvents. They also brought up the point that the EPA is specifically prohibited from issuing a BP permission to employ Corexit in the untested realm of subsurface application. For over a month now, PTO has been sounding the alarm, yet the destructive use of Corexit continues.
Even when the EPA finally demanded that other less toxic agents be employed, BP gave them lip service before flipping them off and continuing as they please. How is it that this private, foreign company continues to operate in defiance of the EPA and continues to do so with impunity?
The most reliable means of determining the cause is to follow the money. Sure enough, a former BP board member is now on the board of Nalco. Sharing that commonality is the President of Exxon, who originally developed the toxic product and continues to have interest in Nalco. The reason BP uses Corexit is plain enough to see.
Go a bit further into the rabbit hole, and one finds that Blackstone is also in the fray. Why do we care? Blackstone owns Seaword, Six Flags, and a score of other related investments. Moreover, they are beholding for about 20% from Japanese investors — the very same people who capture and keep dophins and whales rounded up in places like The Cove’s Taiji.
Point? These giants are acting with impunity. Yet today President Obama claimed responsibility, said that the White House was in charge of all decisions. Does that mean that he will be going to jail too?
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Does this look like a man who is suffering much?
“Athlete” is becoming a very generalized term these days. If they revive Tiddly Winks os there is a competition in flicking guitar picks, will those people be Athletes too? I’ve played a few rounds of golf. Not my favorite thing, but I’ll acknowledge it takes skill, and that I’ve more appreciation for the game itself now than before I had played. It may be physical, but that hardly makes it an athletic feat to play golf.
Mr. Woods may very well have injured a disk somehow, but it’s more likely that a trauma happened on the driveway (or the bedroom) than on the golf course. Please, let’s get real about it, shall we? Just because he gets a hair cut or the band-aid falls off of an owie or boo-boo doesn’t mean they need to cut down trees and ink paper to tell the world about it. The guy has parleyed his game into fame and fortune, and I’m glad for him. But that doesn’t make him an athlete with an injury. It makes him a guy who plays golf for a living, and is getting some of the same aches and pains that everyone else on the planet suffers from. The difference is that most of us can’t afford to walk off of our job because of it.
Our society has money to pay him big bucks for hitting a ball, and for making and maintaining those artificial and ecologically damaging parks to play the game in, but no funds to take care of basics like… say, hunger, disease research, creating peaceful resolutions to conflicts, and developing practical alternative energy solutions. Tiger makes the news today, but there’s no mention of all the other things that are affecting the real world the rest of us live in. I’m beginning to think the media’s main purpose is to provide fantasies to distract us, rather than actually conveying real world information.
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When discussing writing, all too often we ignore the basic tools. While it’s very handy to turn on the constant spell-checking program, even more basic than that is the means by which one gets the text onto the page. In this article, we’ll visit the basics briefly.
First things first. You need a computer. Whether it’s a desktop or a laptop is going to be largely a matter of budget. Most people these days use the laptop both home and away, meaning that the laptop is their primary writing device. (A few may still use paper and pen(cil) or a typewriter, but let’s not focus on the minutia.) Which laptop to get? Let’s start with the age-old Windows verses Apple debate. Simply put, while the PC may be more affordable initially, it can’t compete with an Apple for creative works. Why is that? A few things:
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