Sidebar Widgets Plugin released
The folks from wordpress.com have released thier Sidebar-Widgets to the public (wow, thank you!). The widgets come as a plugin and enable wordpress-users to configure their sidebar to their wishes, without touching the code. It will be easy to include or re-arrange recent comments, archives, blogroll, flickr …Ā TWiki 4.0
TWiki is a Open Source Wiki especially designed for use in corporate environments. In my company I am running the new Version 4.0 as a platform for documentation by IT and R&E departments. 4.0 is a major step ahead offering improved usability and much easier installation. A WYSIWYG Editor can be activated but is still labeled as development beta. The Security-Release 4.0.2 should be out in the next days, so in case you want to give TWiki it a try, better wait for the launch. Have a look at the features or compare it to the major competitors. From my point of view TWiki is first choice for large companies. An alternative could be Confluence, but it is not under an opensource license.
how to trac the buzz
popurls is just one place out there that puts together the daily hype published on the web. Simply a site that gives an overview of the latest from digg, furl, del.icio.us, youtube, flickr … Quite nice and interresting stuff. Don’t forget to shutdown once in a while, read a book, listen to music or an audio-book, watch a movie, have fun outside (Movie ~5MB) and get more sleep!
mchezo wa mpira
Since JKE is over there in Block J, I had a real hard time whether seating myself in C (what i initially wanted) or J. So after all I walked into Block K, took seat seventeen…, here - probably a really bad view since there is still lots of vacant seats. And now I have to admit I feel a bit lonely. I have no idea about soccer, the shedule of the worldcup or anything. All that I noticed some time ago, was that Kenya didn’t qualify. 
All I can remember is that I was in Nayo-Stadium probably some 20yrs ago for a friendly game of Harambee(?) Stars vs. Bayer Leverkusen. So folks, take the chance and join the largest online stadium!
ZANGU - how White African revolutionizes the continent
White African put
up really thrilling plan that could connect Africa to the web-world. GSM Networks are currently flooding Africa, enabeling people to interact. White African takes thoughts to a new dimension, by offering Africa-related news on a global and regional basis within these expanding networks. I especially like the idea of local market portals and communities. An example from White Africans article:
“A villager from a town in Uganda decides that they will buy a bicycle.
They go to the free Zangu portal on their mobile phone and select the āmarketplaceā?. The portal automatically recognizes their location and shows them results for both new and used bicycles available within a given area. Our buyer also has immediate access to the sellers contact information and can move on to communicating with the seller with a touch of a button.”
Yes, Mobile Phones are Africa’s PCs! I think that there is great potential in that idea. But sadly such ideas are mostly realized by some cash-hungry investors, instead by people that care.
Stats
On m.zung.us I’ve been running wp-shortstat so far, since WP2.0 on a revised Version from here. 30$ for Mint, Shaun Inmans continuing development of shortstat, seemed to be quite much for private use on a single domain. Since JKE questioned me today about an alternative to shortstat, I came accross slimstat, which is based on shortstat as well. Slimstat does not come as a WP-Plugin and can therefor be used for any other Website as well. Sadly I haven’t found a suitable way to use a single installation of it to individually trac different websites. (Any hints?) Maybe I’ll have to put up AWStats on my server after all? I have a google-analytics account, but I am not that happy with it because it offers to many functions I have no interest in and seems to slow down my page sometimes.
get a theme
There are possibly thousands of different themes out there. I have installed several. To alter the default look of your weblog just hit “Presentation” and choose a availible theme. Some offer also some options. In case you want something different go ahead and find yourself one, then send me a note, I’ll install it for you.