DISQUS

Sweet! You'll share a page on someone else's server that nobody will look at in a couple of days with the Z-list? How generous!

Rob, when people tell you that you don't get it, that you don't hear what they are saying, it's only because you don't.

Too funny. MSN Search seems to have quickly revised their estimate downward, to 101 results, but when you get out to the page that should have result 101, instead of having one, or saying "no *more* results" it tells you that there are "no results for memetracker."

Also nice: while Google claims (at the moment, on the datacenter I'm hitting) to know of 710 results, it will only show you 62 of them unless you insist on seeing duplicates, at which point the 710 turns into "about 694."

Huh. Are they too incompetent to take an incoming URL with an affiliate ID and redirect to set a cookie or an obvious sessionid query string parameter, so they wouldn't have that problem, or are the whines of affiliates who won't know where their affiliate ID went worse than the problem of having them indexed in search engines?

Since it's a beta for developers of weblog posting tools (sorry, gotta read clear down to the end of the post), probably not unless Maryam's a Flock developer now.

Which would be very cool ;)

"I never got complaints" isn't a perfect measure of how good something is: for a while, when I was using Bloglines, I set my subscriptions to show "Summaries if Available" so I could quickly skim through, opening interesting posts in a browser tab. Since your feed didn't have separate summaries and full content, I had to scroll past your whole posts when they were on something that didn't interest me, but since I knew you were using a tool that wouldn't produce more flexible RSS, I didn't complain.

I'd like to believe it isn't a sign of the beginning of a downhill slide, but I'm afraid it is: El Reg used to be nasty but funny, but any more they're just nasty, mean, and wrong. Take that article, for instance: they were completely wrong about what was actually released, which was to show punycode by default (www.xn--pypal-4ve.com rather than www.paypal.com) rather than the original plan of turning off IDNs, their "simplest and clearest example" (borrowed from the CENTR statement they link) is a crock (try typing paypaI.com in your addressbar, and see if it's a good spoof after the uppercase I turns into lowercase), and the "expert solutions" they link at the end consist of being provincial, and telling the registrars to shape up and follow the rules they were supposed to follow all along; exactly what Mozilla and Opera were saying. I'm afraid the Register has just gotten so fond of the sound of their own nasty voice that they don't bother checking facts, they just repeat anything they've heard.

Oh, did you mean Mozilla's arrogance? That was just a figment of Kieren McCarty's imagination.

I'd like to believe it isn't a sign of the beginning of a downhill slide, but I'm afraid it is: El Reg used to be nasty but funny, but any more they're just nasty, mean, and wrong. Take that article, for instance: they were completely wrong about what was actually released, which was to show punycode by default (www.xn--pypal-4ve.com rather than www.paypal.com) rather than the original plan of turning off IDNs, their "simplest and clearest example" (borrowed from the CENTR statement they link) is a crock (try typing paypaI.com in your addressbar, and see if it's a good spoof after the uppercase I turns into lowercase), and the "expert solutions" they link at the end consist of being provincial, and telling the registrars to shape up and follow the rules they were supposed to follow all along; exactly what Mozilla and Opera were saying. I'm afraid the Register has just gotten so fond of the sound of their own nasty voice that they don't bother checking facts, they just repeat anything they've heard.

Oh, did you mean Mozilla's arrogance? That was just a figment of Kieren McCarty's imagination.