It is only fitting that someone from Washington DC gets to commit the 180,000th commit to the Drupal repository, during the code sprint at DrupalCon DC 2009.

Congratulations to Jeff Miccolis from Development Seed.

[Edit: Changed Jim to Jeff]

Steve Ballmer said that the economy will 'reset'. Although he has some valid points, the choice of words seems very Microsoft.

The "reset" terminology reminded me of an incident years back when my older kids were in much younger: Microsoft and the dumbing down of generations.

Sometimes, things happen or you hear them, and an bulb lights up! Something is revealed to you.

Years ago, I experienced such a moment, from a 10 or 11 year old: my daughter Suhaila.

For some reason the stove that was only a year old, displayed a blinking "8:88" in the timer, and did not respond to buttons pressed.

After trying for a while, I told my wife jokingly: "Well, I guess we will pull the plug. I wish we had Ctrl-Alt-Del on it". To my utter surprise, Suhaila, my oldest daughter said: "Yeah, Ctrl-Alt-Del is very good. It is so useful! It solves all problems you have!"

The blog post titled: Dreamweaver is Dying ends with "Long Live Drupal!"

Although they are different technologies, one being an design tool and HTML editor, and the other a Content Management System/Framework, this shows the shift from tools for static sites that do it all (design, edit, publish), to dynamic sites with dynamic backends.

Via Slashdot.

The "curse of the DrupalCon" continues ...

Which one? The fact that wireless is always an issue, perhaps at least in the North American DrupalCons of late.

At Boston, we had severe issues. Narayan Newton and David Strauss re-wired the conference to use the presenters' connection. That helped a bit, but if I remember correctly there was another issue after that (bandwidth, fake DDoS detection or something).

Now in Washington DC, the internet is still unreliable. Why you ask?

Here is why: The DHCP lease for the IP is very short: less than 5 minutes!

Look at this:

There was this post on Slashdot about Wordpress and Joomla! and which one is more usable.

Someone posted about Drupal using terms that we all in the Drupal community will like, e.g. "use Drupal!".

We always saw Drupal with a reputation of being "powerful but ugly", "elegant from the inside but not pretty", ...etc.

The White House has a gallery of Obama's visit to Ottawa yesterday.

One of the photos has a caption of Obama with "Canadian Prime Minister Graves".

Here is a screenshot, since it will probably be corrected soon.

Humor within the Drupal community never ceases to amaze me.

Today, while the Durpal Association was having a Board Meeting in IRC this nugget was in the discussion

[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> ANY LAST QUESTIONS?
[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> 60 seconds
[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> 50 seconds
[2009-02-12 13:45] * J hears crickets
[2009-02-12 13:45] <J> 30 seconds
[2009-02-12 13:45] * L steps on one of the crickets.
[2009-02-12 13:46] * M chirps

Made me chuckle ...

Are you passionate about Drupal?

Would you like to volunteer for the Drupal Association?

Do you have skills that can help promote Drupal in new frontiers? Help organize events locally, regionally and globally?

If you answer yes to all the above, then the association is holding its second annual elections shortly. The deadline for applications is one day away. Applications are due by end of day tomorrow (February 10, 2009).

A while back, the Turkish TV soap opera Noor saw wide viewership in the Arab world, in subtitled form. Several divorces has been attributed to this show, with social scientists attributing this to unrealistic expectations by some viewers vs. real life.

Now, British researchers have independently reached a similar conclusion: romantic comedies set unrealistic expectations, and hence ruin couple's relationship.