Browser Stats

Reading time: < 1 min Prompted by the news that there have now been 16 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in two months. I thought I’d check my stats and see what the browser share for this site is. Previously IE (5 & 6) was running at about 96% and that has dropped to around 82%. Of course there is…

Choice

Reading time: < 1 min Springer protests pour in to BBC, 15,000 of them apparently. I’m very much FOR the Beeb showing it. I’m quite capable of choosing whether or not to watch it myself, thank you very much. And to all those naysayers who are complaining about the profanity and religious imagery may I suggest they talk a walk…

Real life

Reading time: < 1 min Silly website things aside, real life continues apace and it’s only the 6th January. The Christmas decorations came down last night, I think we were the last house in the street to do so, but then traditionally they are due down today. I think. Anyway, the house is feeling bare and I’m fighing off the…

WordPress stuff

Reading time: 2 mins Permalink structure What gives? Is it because I have my index.php file outside my WordPress directory? I can get it to build the structure but then the permalinked post loses the link to the CSS (it presumes it’s in a different folder I think). Sorted. Comments, Trackbacks, Pingbacks I’m still using HaloScan for the comments,…

Categorically

Reading time: < 1 min I’ve slowly been importing some non-blog posts into WordPress. I think I’ve got most of them in there now and I finally have a few categories completed. So you can now get a list of all my movie reviews (I used the term advisedly), some of the before blog posts, and more specific stuff like…

Did you know

Reading time: < 1 min If you have a .com you can’t opt-out from whois searches like you can with .co.uk domains? It was just brought to my attention, and once I’d stopped freaking out (my address was writ large on the interwebnet via a WHOIS search for chrissakes!) I just went and changed the details. I would like to…