Insomnia. An excellent occasion to reboot the almost dormant Portuguese WordPress Community for the 3.0 future.

In its honor, we’ve decided to use the new, still in development, 2010 theme, which will become the default theme on WordPress 3.0 (and r.i.p. Kubrick), making sure we tweaked the child-theme only and not the theme’s core files. After a few changes, it was clear that it needed some typographical love, courtesy of TypeKit.

All in all I think it came out pretty well. It’s still a work in progress obviously, and will probably always be.

WordPress.com already has official news blogs in French, Japanese, Hebrew and Portuguese, and now also in Spanish. Cosmopolitan, that’s how we roll.

So you think you can organize a WordCamp? If you don’t (and if you do, too), check out From the Stickers to the Survey, a meeting place for all those who did, or want to organize WordCamps. Add your insights, ask questions, make your event a success. (update: the content is public, but you’ll need to be added to it to post)

Visit WordCamp Central for a peek on past and scheduled events.

Mark Twain explains the German Language:

…Dafür habe ich, aus reinische Verlegenheit — no, Vergangenheit — no, I mean Höflichkeit — aus reinische Höflichkeit habe ich resolved to tackle this business in the German language, um Gottes willen! Also! Sie müssen so freundlich sein, und verzeih mich die interlarding von ein oder zwei Englischer Worte, hier und da, denn ich finde dass die deutsche is not a very copious language, and so when you’ve really got anything to say, you’ve got to draw on a language that can stand the strain.

Mark Twain, The Awful German Language.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

Finally Live

The WordPress Foundation website is now live. The future’s bright.

Taking TypeKit for a spin on this blog. General CSS turbulence is to be expected… Carry on.

Completely Off-Topic News

I’ve finally convinced my daughter to not only create her own WordPress.com blog about her cooking experiments (which are delicious, and in saying that I’m not biased at all ), but also to cook dinner for my band.

Post-dinner Dry Martinis & Rock'n Roll

tlhIngan jIH! Klingon is on!

Oh, come on. You know you want it. mugh away…

Translate BuddyPress

Talking with a few translators, it became clear that many of them didn’t know that BuddyPress translations now have their own repository. For the moment, it’s a checkout-translate-commit process, as the rest of WordPress.org, but stay tuned for a GlotPress-based translation platform. Be sure to read this great post on everything i18n (and get on the mailing-list already…)

If you want to see how GlotPress works, take a look at WordPress.com’s translation platform, now alive and kicking.