The latest from Neil’s web wanderings.Tumblr (3.0; @stratofax)http://stratofax.com/<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/">Security Incident</a>: <p>Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.</p> <p>We have been diligently…</p>http://stratofax.com/post/4582748036http://stratofax.com/post/4582748036Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:58:03 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/new-theme-the-morning-after/">New Theme: The Morning After</a>: <p>Say hello to <em>The Morning After</em>, a classic and popular magazine-style theme that has withstood the test of time. Based on its great success for self-hosted sites we’re excited to bring it to you for…</p>http://stratofax.com/post/4459548801http://stratofax.com/post/4459548801Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:02:47 -0400<a href="http://www.kk.org/cooltools/">Cool Tools</a>http://stratofax.com/post/4250223909http://stratofax.com/post/4250223909Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:16:09 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/new-theme-basic-maths/">New Theme: Basic Maths</a>: <p>Reminiscent of primordial grid designs used in different print mediums, <a href="http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/basic-maths/">Basic Maths</a> is one of the most elegant, and smartly-designed themes we’ve ever seen. We are thrilled to have it now…</p>http://stratofax.com/post/4239755232http://stratofax.com/post/4239755232Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:15:25 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/automattic%e2%80%99s-worldwide-wp-5k/">Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k</a>: <p><strong><img class="alignright" title="nick-momrik-shoes" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2011/03/nick-momrik-shoes.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="224"/></strong>As Scott mentioned in his <a title="How is WordPress.com made?" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/how-is-wordpress-com-made/">How is WordPress.com Made?</a> post, at <a href="http://www.automattic.com">Automattic</a> we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in…</p>http://stratofax.com/post/4196064688http://stratofax.com/post/4196064688Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:05:30 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/new-theme-rusty-grunge/">New Theme: Rusty Grunge</a>: <p>It is time to introduce a new free theme which goes by the appropriately evocative name of <a href="http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/rusty-grunge/">Rusty Grunge</a>. It goes without saying, this theme has all the rusty and grungy elements needed to appeal…</p>http://stratofax.com/post/4130466732http://stratofax.com/post/4130466732Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:40:48 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/rss-links-widget/">RSS Links Widget</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2559" title="Hard at Work" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/nick-anthony-hard-at-work.jpg?w=300" alt="Hard at Work" width="300" height="225"/>The Happiness Engineers had a great time in <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/support-hours-and-updates/">London</a> last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/184656892http://stratofax.com/post/184656892Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:16:28 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/atd-wpcom/">After the Deadline Live for WP.com</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://engrishfunny.com/"><img class="alignright" src="http://engrishfunny.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/engrish-funny-stalactite-her.jpg?w=300&h=199" alt="" width="300" height="199"/></a>Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/183618236http://stratofax.com/post/183618236Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:08:07 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/rss-in-the-clouds/">RSS in the Clouds</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><div id="attachment_2537" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordcamp-clouds/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2537 " title="Pretty clouds" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/mat_3597-840x558.jpg?w=300" alt="Pretty clouds" width="300" height="199"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas</p> </div> <p>RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/182623787http://stratofax.com/post/182623787Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:10:22 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/august-wrap-up-4/">August Wrap-Up</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/support-hours-and-updates/">the Happiness Engineer meetup</a>. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.</p> <p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/londoneyegroup.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2523" title="londoneyegroup" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/londoneyegroup.jpg" alt="londoneyegroup" width="775" height="571"/></a></p> <p>Our…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/179795123http://stratofax.com/post/179795123Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:44:33 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/support-hours-and-updates/">Support Hours and Updates</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/about/">the lovely faces here</a>) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us <a href="http://www.automattic.com/about">Happiness…</a></p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/172891209http://stratofax.com/post/172891209Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:39:12 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/new-theme-sandbox/">New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox 1.6.1</a> is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.</p> <p>Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/167739398http://stratofax.com/post/167739398Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:01:13 -0400<a href="http://www.cloudaccess.net/">Joomla! Cloud Hosting - Instant Joomla Website - Cloud Servers</a>http://stratofax.com/post/166793943http://stratofax.com/post/166793943Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:50:41 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/soundcloud/">SoundCloud</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>We are big fans of <a href="http://soundcloud.com">SoundCloud</a>, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as <a href="http://soundcloud.com/planned_obsolescence/no-5-can-the-dark-hurt-you">Beck</a>, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/thelittleidiot">Moby</a> and <a href="http://soundcloud.com/sonicyouth/sacred-trickster">Sonic Youth</a> now use the…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/162975667http://stratofax.com/post/162975667Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:56:22 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/">WP.me — shorten your links</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2432" title="shortlink" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/shortlink.jpg" alt="shortlink" width="296" height="187"/></p> <p>Check out this address:</p> <p><a href="http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten"><a href="http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten">http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten</a></a></p> <p>If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about  70% smaller than the <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-title-url/">…</a></p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/162975659http://stratofax.com/post/162975659Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:56:21 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/new-theme-inove/">New Theme: iNove</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/inove">iNove by mg12</a> is one of the top themes used for <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/">self-hosted</a> WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on <a href="http://www.wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>. We’re always doing what we can to…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/162079931http://stratofax.com/post/162079931Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:01:27 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/july-wrap-up-3/">July Wrap-Up</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>We kicked off July with <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/media-feature-vote/">an open vote on new media features</a>. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.</p> <p>Later in the month we…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/156703039http://stratofax.com/post/156703039Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:44:56 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/archives-shortcode/">Archives Shortcode</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/">…</a></p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/152252400http://stratofax.com/post/152252400Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:30:14 -0400<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/gravatar-widget/">Gravatar Widget</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gravatar-widget-display.jpg" alt="gravatar widget display" title="gravatar widget display" width="226" height="159" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2306"/></p> <p>Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…</p></div>http://stratofax.com/post/147477680http://stratofax.com/post/147477680Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:35:39 -0400<a href="http://www.web-hosting-newsletter.com/2009/07/14/20-links-to-help-you-navigate-the-social-web/">20 Links to Help You Navigate the Social Web</a>http://stratofax.com/post/145508473http://stratofax.com/post/145508473Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:47:50 -0400