WordPress Plugin Automatically Turn Urls into Clickable Links

This plugin seeks to address certain shortcomings with WordPress’s default auto-hyperlinking function. This tweaks the pattern matching expressions to prevent inappropriate adjacent characters from becoming part of the link (such as a trailing period when a link ends a sentence, links that are parenthesized or braced, comma-separated, etc) and it prevents invalid text from becoming a mailto: link (i.e. smart@ss) or for invalid URIs (i.e. http://blah) from becoming links.

This plugin will recognize any protocol-specified URI (http|https|ftp|news)://, etc, as well as e-mail addresses. It also adds the new ability to recognize Class B domain references (i.e. “somesite.net”, not just domains prepended with “www.”) as valid links (i.e. “wordpress.org” would now get auto-hyperlinked)

Download this Plugin Free: http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/auto-hyperlink-urls/ (this url was converted to a clickable link by the AutoHyperLinks Plugin)

WP-O-Matic Auto Blogger WordPress Plugin

WP-O-MATIC is a well developed auto-blogger / rss feed aggregator plugin for WordPress. I needed this plugin to read my RSS feeds from TwitPic and insert them into the Photos area of this Blog. Why have a blog if you’re sending people to some service to view your recent photos? WP-O-Matic was the perfect solution for bringing external content into your WordPress blog on a scheduled basis (controlled by a cronjob).

Full Features List and Free Plugin Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/

Pearl Street, Boulder Colorado : mobile pic

Chad and I drove up to the BlitzLocal office on Pearl Street.

70,000 Jobs Lost In One Day

In a single day, on Jan. 26, at least 70,000 new layoffs were announced at companies as varied as telecom giant Sprint Nextel , construction equipment maker Caterpillar , semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments , and pharmaceutical house Pfizer .

Presidential Inauguration May Yield Stock Market Free Fall

There has been a lot of excitement recently as Bush prepares to exit the White House. People are feeling better about things. Change is on the way. I really wanted to chime in with my 2 cents about the passing of the presidential torch, and all I could come up with was one thought:

Investors – Learn what ‘sell the news‘ means and run like hell.

Those Wall Street giants might get a week of unloading to their retail customers at higher levels before everyone realizes the economy is more screwed in Feburary than we were in January. Beware once their inventory of long shares is gone; the short they are already prepared to put in will hit the market like a Rail Car. It will be interesting to see if a real bottom can be put in whenever they decide to cover the mammoth short that will develop over the next few months.