Forty Plus Two was classified as INTJ – The Scientists while Zen and more was classified as ISTP – The Mechanics. I think both should be taken with a grain of salt but it shows that sticking to a set choice of blogging topics gives a different result than my personal Jung-Myers-Briggs type.

Genderanalyzer determines if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Both of my blogs were rightly typed as written by a man.

It is a great and long post that deals with
• Key Differences
• Why Are More Blogs Moving to Magazine Themes?
• Pros and Cons
• Considerations for Choosing a Style of Theme
• Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme
• Resources for Grid-Based Design
• Free Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress
• Premium Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress

It is an impressive starting point if you are curious about magazine style, it includes lots of examples of sites and themes.

I have created my own blog theme, Zen Sandbox theme, based on Sandbox. Creating my own magazine style or grid-based design based on Sandbox would be a challenge.

Dumb Little Man has a post with 21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content.

Update September 4, 2008.
Chris Garrett writes about 3 Great New Books to Buy Today.

Update November 9, 2008.
NETTUTS writes about 50 Must-read Books on Web Development.

In How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress 2.6 is the answer to how to disable. To turn it off, add the following code to wp-config.php:

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

How to Delete Existing WordPress Post Revisions Stored/Saved shows how you remove existing revision posts from your database.

Blogging is an activity done by people for other people. Blogging is a form of communication. From now on, I will blog for humans, not for search engines or social media websites. This may or may not result in any type of monetary compensation, but money will never be my primary motivation in blogging. I will market my blog by communicating with people who may share my interests.

That is a mission statement that works for me too. Being authentic is important, in blogging as well as in other parts of life.

Maria calls her blog Never the Same River Twice, a great name.

Searching Google I found out that spaces at the end of wp-config.php caused blank screens but that did not solve my problem. After a tip in WordPress Support Forum I turned of plugins to see if they caused the admin issue. They did not but when WP-Spamfree was disabled I got an error message and not just a blank screen. The error message and Google helped me find an answer in Headers already sent. It turned out that my problem was caused by extra spaces in functions.php and after removing those spaces all worked well.

One thing confuses me though, how comes WordPress can handle the extra spaces in functions.php when in blog mode but not in admin mode?

While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.

On Saturday they posted this in You Are Not Spam:

You knew that already, and now we do too. We have now restored all accounts that were mistakenly marked as spam yesterday.

We want to offer our sincerest apologies to affected bloggers and their readers. We’ve tracked down the problem to a bug in our data processing code that locked blogs even when our algorithms concluded they were not spam.

They also state that:

At Blogger, we strongly believe that you own and should control your posts and other data. We understand that you trust us to store and serve your blog, and incidents like this one are a betrayal of that trust.

Blogger has deleted blogs suspected to be spam before, including their own offical Google blog which was mistakenly deleted, but this is the first time they admit a mistake. And the statement about bloggers owning and controling their posts sounds good. There is always risks using blogging platforms run by others and not self hosted.

Vandelay Design has a great post about Effective Use of Blog Sidebars with a selection of blogs that has well working sidebars.