Nice to see my name in one of the most popular blogs: Russian ecommerce hack tricks post-office in US/Canada.

Inside the box is some useful (and I mean, really useful for a small software company) free stuff from Microsoft which was available only for US/Canada citizens :)

Me (to the left) and Dmitry coding at CR headquarters.

Me in response to a post in forum:

User-friendly software must not only allow user to do something, but also prevent him/her from doing something wrong. This is one of the points of user-friendliness that a lot of developers forget about.

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Coding, of course!

Seems like I’m only posting offtopic here  Well, I’m only CSO (oh, CSR), what do you expect?

For all the Fridayers out there, check out this collection of 79 flash games, some great, some even greater:

http://www.friv.com/

I personally recommend “Toon Crisis” (row 6, column 8 ). Great work from Sony.

PS Yeah, and don’t forget to check out www.purescore.com! I’ve got 55 (hey, it used to be 31 a year ago; getting older, I guess). How much have you got?

New feature!

Look: BlogJet is the 1^st blog client to include this super important feature. See? No?

Look here, again: 1^st.

Yeah, really — 1^st! Not 2^nd, 3^rd or 5673856^th. See? Bingo!

(Works automatically when “Use typographic characters” turned on.) Amazing, huh? We love typography!

OK, no more features for you. After all, it’s a bug-fix release.

Bug fixes

• Fixed not showing categories for TypePad and Movable Type blogs in Recent Posts window.
• Fixed errors with autodetection of dasBlog blogs.
• Fixed error when viewing statistics with no received posts.
• Fixed various Access Violations when getting posts from Blogger (recreate your account in BlogJet!)
• Fixed “TStruct.GetString(category Id)” error when getting posts from WordPress 2.1.
• Fixed error “Could not convert variant of type (OleStr)…” error when creating account for Community Server.
• Workaround for Community Server not returning full URLs of posts.
• Fixed not saving password after changing it.
• Fixed repeating punctuation marks (!, ?, etc.) after autoreplaced words.
• b2evolution API changed to Movable Type API (with file upload support). (Not complete, bugs submitted to b2evolution developers.)
• A few other small bug fixes…

We’re bug killers! Want us to kill your favorite bug? Let us know about it!

Download BlogJet 2.0.0.9 here.

Thanks God it’s Friday (), time for some good relaxing music  . For instance, like Sepultura - Refuse(Resist) with slightly altered lyrics by these kids:

The kids (called “Gauchos”) also do other rock covers, check out here.

PS I want a Pikachu t-shirt too!

Signal vs Noise has Fireside Chat with Seth Godin and Mark Hurst. But the best quote is from Jason Fried (37signals), moderator of the chat:

I continue to believe the reason more bars aren’t raised is because people don’t think it’s sexy to execute on the basics beautifully.

Exactly!