x86 merge notes for an upcoming kernel release, including theoretical support for up to 65k CPUs, and 4k CPUs in more practical terms. Computing is back to where it started for me, except instead of 4k of RAM at the forefront it’s CPUs. We’re now talking about CPU support in the thousands … knowing in the back of our minds that in a decade it will be millions.

A Javascript/browser game. It’s possible, and expect to see more of it in the future.

Microformats versus APIs, which provides the most useful insulation and access?

Here are some notes from a Joshua Schachter talk (of del.icio.us fame) on the future of web apps.

Debugging With Firebug, a good introduction to Firebug, the handy Firefox Javascript debugger plugin.

Aperture future in question as Apple axes bulk of team. Reported by ThinkSecret, who have been mistaken in the past.

Larry Wall - Present Continuous, Future Perfect. Long and interesting as usual.

Ning, the new web thing everyone is (or should be) talking about. It’s the new VB of the net, a place to build and host webish applications. It’s like an IDE and a platform, except it’s not … it’s like what the IDE and platform could be in the future. A good example of how to think “web”.

I hacked together a few WordPress plugins today to add support for the MediaWiki linking syntax. The first plugin, wikifier.php, adds support for double-square-bracket wiki links (to a default wiki, or the specified wiki. The second plugin, magiclink.php adds single-square-bracked external-wiki links and Google I’m-feeling-lucky, similar to my MagicMarkup plugins for Blosxom, which I plan to port in the next few weeks. For now, the plugins can be downloaded here … sometime in the future, I’ll setup a wiki page for my WordPress plugins and hacks.

WordPress has a decent plugin system. It’s a basic callback registration system with priorities, and has many exposed function points. It’s a better approach than Blosxom, mostly because the plugins can be ordered by priority (handy for text filters). It’s in PHP though, which reminds me of my days working in GWBasic and DBase. PHP seems so akward compared to Perl, Java, and C++ (but it’s workable).