DISQUS

Hi,

when I set up facibusreviews.com it was going to be, like:
facibusreviews.com/movies
facibusreviews.com/food
facibusreviews.com/applications

but I got to the stage where I couldn't be bothered and I abandoned that blog ages ago :) Mind you, categories sort of work that way in WordPress anyway.

So, as to the subdomain. Why not embrace the horror and call it reviews.immoralmatriarch.com?

Cheers, Andrew

Good article, and thanks for the link on Plurk :)

Good on Google, and screw the rest of 'em. They don't matter.

Cheers, Andrew

Hi Riayn,

interesting discussion. Thanks for the backlink :)

I think, like Will, that good writing is more important than operating within the constraints of a niche. There is this circular argument that seems to go "a lot of well known bloggers are niche bloggers, I want to be well known, therefore I need to blog within a niche". It doesn't necessarily follow.

Cheers, Andrew

Hi Mike,

I think that to a certain extent, Ubuntu is becoming the OS of choice for Linux newbies owing to the Asus Eee - anecdotally, people are buying Eees without knowing a lot about Linux and learning through using.

And like it or not, FOSS has to become more usable to be used - if Ubuntu is making an effort to become more usable, then more power to them.

Cheers, Andrew
(Linux user off-and-on since 1993)

Hi,

do you consider all mission/vision/values statements to be like this contestant's speech?

Or just the funny ones? :)

Cheers, Andrew

All I can say is "oops!". I hope that they close this exploit/mistake soon - it sucks that hate groups can use Facebook to harrass people who are to all intents and purposes otherwise acting within the law.

Hi blogan,

Scary thing - I thought it was nuts but a friend suggested updating my JRE - and now your solution works in FireFox 2.0.0.3. How this is, I do not know, I am just happy that it works now :)

I'll check back every now and then to see if there is a fix to the IE6 thing - that said, I have to say that I am pretty happy to have found a working solution for IE7/FireFox.

Thanks, Andrew

Thanks blogan,

I've just seen it work in FireFox 1.5 on a friend's machine, but not on my work PC that also runs FF 2.0.0.3 - it is wierd :) I'm happy to accept that it is something in my own way of setting up FireFox that is the real issue.

I'll look into the IE 6/z-index style thing, and if anything comes of it, will pass it on here.

Cheers, Andrew

Hi,

I have the opposite problem - this fix works for IE7 but not FireFox 2.0.0.3. For an example of it working/not, please see here.

Cheers, Andrew

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