DISQUS

@Daddy:
If WoW had really nice graphics I would probably still be playing it now, even if I didn't have the time or money. That's why Age of Conan is brilliant. Gameplay should definitely take centre stage, but if a game has shockingly crap graphics but amazing gameplay it would be discarded whereas if a game has shockingly crap gameplay and amazing graphics, it would be popular.

@Jason:
I too love the character development side of RPG's. The Witcher seems to have very limited amounts of items that can actually be used as weapons/armour by the character to simplify the process of development. In fact the only thing you can do to improve your character is distribute the skill points and occasionally upgrade your weapons if you feel like it (which isn't needed to advance through the game).

It's a shame really, because character development is what makes an RPG an RPG and not just an adventure game. Yet somehow The Witcher still manages to stun and amaze.

Thanks.

@edubase owner:
Just like building your own motorbike.

@metronome:
I was kind of aiming towards people with knowledge in computers. If you are buying a computer for the first time, then a pre-built one would be the best option, unless you are up for a challenge.

Lindsay, I believe you have to host your own WordPress blog to be able to use the WordPress plugins.

@Gemisht:
Ah, I didn't notice you owned the Aussie Bloggers Blog as well, hehe. Yeah it is a nice way to celebrate it, I haven't done anything for my 1 year anniversary (March) on this blog, but its a bit late now.

@Bouncer:
The problem with that for me, Bouncer is that I can never find anything to write about and so writing anything in advance just doesn't seem to work either.

@Catie:
No link?

Yeah, this is actually quite a fun tool and suits me perfectly seeing as I haven't posted for about a month now. Heh.

Wow, what are the chances of that? I'm curious now: how did you find my blog?

I haven't been blogging lately, but not because I am lost in Plurkland, I am lost in the blogosphere. I can't seem to find anything interesting to blog about and when I do I can't seem to write a long enough post to make it worth while.

So it is more the opposite: people who are lost for imagination/concentration on their own blogs, turn to Twitter-like applications in order to carry on blogging/tweeting the ideas that they couldn't expand into a long blog post.

The cake is a lie.

According to the Download Day Headquarters the websites were up and running at around about 18:16 GMT. However, I did not see them change the download button from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 until at least 19:00 GMT (maybe even 20:00 GMT) and so I was only able to download it from then onwards and even then it was slow.

I haven't seen any bugs, I think that is because they didn't do many changes from the last release candidate, but don't quote me on that. Everything seems to be running smoothly (and most of my plug-ins are working as well)!

Yeah, WordPress stats does seem to slow down the blog; but my blog is slow enough that you wouldn't notice if I turned it off. Haha, I have way too many plugins and modifications and the K2 theme doesn't help much either.

Wow, I just read through all of them. The last one definately was believed for some time, and it would have been a very good idea for Walt Disney to do, especially as he had the money to do so.

The reason I suggest using more than one anti-virus and anti-spyware program is to - in theory - stop those few slipping through the cracks. However, even this doesn't always work; you really need to keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware systems up to date and do a full system scan regularly.

Glad I could help a fellow WordPresser out with their problems - it is quite a weird problem though.

Definitely more difficult, but sounds worth doing nonetheless. Thanks!

Yeah, Parkour does only have a small population, but if you join up with some of the groups that join up (such as SouthCoastParkour, England) you can get quite a few people turning up in one place.

Agreeably, short-term visitors are better than no visitors at all, because it helps to populate your blog even if the visitors don't read further than just the landing post. Some StumbleUpon visitors do subscribe to your feed, but as you have pointed out it is a very small amount; you received 30000 visitors to your blog from StumbleUpon and your subscriber count only increased by 50, that means that only 0.0016% of those visitors subscribed to your feed.

I am not really sure whether normal visitors would have a higher percentage, but just thought I would point that out.

I obviously don't benefit as much from StumbleUpon as you do, though. My blog isn't as well-known or popular as yours; I only get a mere 1000-3000 visitors a month. Maybe if my blog was a little more active and popular, I would benefit from StumbleUpon visitors and they would probably stay on my blog a little longer.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

I have just sold my Xbox 360 for £200 (in mint condition) because I got bored of it after the first few months. I don't think that it was worth it, I really should have waited a little while a got a Playstation 3, but even then I think I would get bored of it because I use my computer more than any console.

Thanks Ignacio. I am hoping to release the next version of Ajax Post Save soon, as I have found a few bugs in the current version. I have noticed (in the development version) that the automatic save every 2 minutes (or whatever you have set it to) does not function properly. It doesn't seem to save the post nor does it disable the timeout timer. I will have to fix that before releasing it though.

Happy new year SpaceAge and Ignacio.

I was going to add it to my K2 Explained documentation entries, but I never really got around to doing much more to them. I will try and make a post about it soon though, thanks.

Yep, I am still handing them out if anyone wants them, I think I have around 50.

Yeah, I am happy with the traffic, but I just don't think that it is the best way to get people to comment on your blog or subscribe to your feed.

I normally read more than just the landing page of a blog when stumbling, but normally only if I like what I had landed on. When I say that, I don just mean content; if I like the content but hate the design of the website, most of the time I won't read more than just the landing page. Whereas if I like the design but don't like the content I will skim across some of the other posts. It's weird...

I agree, Red Hat Enterprise Linux really isn't worth buying when there are so many other distributions that can be downloaded for free. Most of the time the free distributions have more features as well. I only used Red Hat because I could easily get a legitimate copy of it. If I were to use Linux as a home operating system I would definitely go for a free distributable (most likely Ubuntu).

True, I don't use many other Social Media sites apart from Digg but I would say that StumbleUpon brings in the highest quality and number of visitors even if they don't really stay on your blog for very long.

Thanks for the insightful comment, Beth I totally agree with you. As for the 'I Follow' button: go ahead and use it on your own website.

Well that should be fine. Not sure why the error still shows for you, but for me it is completely sorted.