I know there is a lot of people who think VaultPress is expensive. In fact I completely agree! However in my honest opinion VaultPress is the poor man’s version of WordPress VIP Support, whose prices start at $5,000. Even if I were to upgrade to VaultPress Premium across all 4 of my blogs (which would be $60/month per blog) it would still be cheaper than...

Note: See update below! (original stat tracked down) I first came across this “fact” from TechCrunch, and after Googling around the interwebs (apologies to @MattCutts) I finally discovered what appears to be the source of this oft cited statistic. Some other numbers mentioned by Matt are 150 code committers with 1400 on Trac helping out. 21m downloads of...

So earlier today I wrote a post upon The Blog Herald regarding VaultPress (a service by Automattic/WordPress that securely backs up your entire blog) that was at best speculative and at worst slanderous. In his wisdom my Editor (that would be Franky) pulled the article offline, although unfortunately other sites have picked up my sloppy article which is currently...

Well, after a few hours, I finally finished 95% of the customizations for this site. WordPress may have it’s drawbacks code wise compared to Blogger’s simplicity, but it’s a lot more powerful tool–something my best friend often reminded me of. There is still a lot more I have to do behind the scenes, but for now I’m quite satisfied as...

Just for your info, this site will be under construction throughout the day as I iron out the details, themes, etc. of the site. Hopefully this will not last longer than a day, but it may until Wednesday before the site is at its...

I love Google! I really do! Never has one company had so much impact upon my life (for the positive) and I doubt I’ll find another that will. So why am I migrating away? Answer: it isn’t wise for me to put all of my eggs in one basket. On the rare occasions when Google was down/inaccessable, 90% of my geek life suffered sending me into nerd panic...