Long and detailed guide to creating Wordpress themes from scratch. Has a Windows bias in places but to be honest I've not worked through it as I have no personal desire to create a theme from scratch. If you're not prepared / able to pay someone this could be the answer.

A 70 minute screencast into to Unix. $9. To investigate

Chris Unitt walks you through the first five minutes of using WordPress.com. I agree with this 100%.

A fair amount of common sense in this post for people wondering how to start using Twitter without making a tit of themselves.

Jason Kottke explains how to edit the YouTube embed code to get nicer results. Hacking embed codes is fun. I should write a guide sometime.

A simple and to the point guide.

Merlin Mann is one of a small pool of old-school bloggers I have a lot of time for. Here he outlines some basic and pretty obvious guidelines, so basic and obvious that I forget them from time to time. Worth a read.

Chris Brogan runs through the obvious and not-so-obvious in this very useful list.

Two years on this B3ta investigation appears to be doing the rounds again. It's a good one too - investigating the various "expert" ways of poaching eggs and discovering the cling-film technique is the best.

A friend called today saying her somewhat sexy photos were being used on other sites causing her bandwidth to go through the roof (5 gig so far this month!). Within 10 minutes I'd implemented this system and, while a little crude, it works. Nice one. (Needs a host running php and Apache but, to be honest, if yours doesn't do that you should consider moving.)

This is going to be rather useful for my next project. Yes, that's right. You guess it.

Intriguing guide to how to contact this guy. Better than a blunt list of addresses? I think so.

An intro to search operators and the like