DISQUS

Yes I am :)

I didn't get the original iPhone and this one tipped the balance in favour of the iPhone (I really didn't want it without 3G for a start).

I ordered mine on Monday and will be waiting by the door for the delivery on Friday. I'm excited!

I love the huge guy who just broke the wall around him :D

Japanese game shows are the best!

Psst.... that's Survivor, not Foreigner ;-)

So you're not interested in this experiment then: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danpat/262640851/

:D

I do find it funny that people complain so long and hard about Twitter's downtime when it is actually up 98.72% of he time. It's only been out for 37 hours in 4 months and while it is more than other services, it is good for free!

As you say though, maybe the free model of the internet does start to spoil things. I have free broadband at home that comes with a telephone plan that I buy. The internet connection is fine, however, if like some people I have problems with it, my provider has less to worry about since I'll be getting what I paid for (ie nothing). Yes, on the internet we want everything, we want it to run perfectly and we don't want to pay for it, but sometimes there has to be a compromise and in Twitter's case at the moment it is that it doesn't run perfectly. I can live with that. I'm not sure I'd be so happy if there was a stage when you start to pay for Twitter in order to improve it, but you don't get that immediate benefit. Then you are compromising on two factors.

I hope Twitter can sort something out for a decent revenue stream soon and I think you are probably right in guessing that freemium will be the model, but in the meantime I wish people would stop complaining about the minute percentage of downtime Twitter has achieved when it is a free service.

http://www.tweetclouds.com/user_pages/philnash....

Time, New, Blog, Web and Work, in that order.

I don't know what to think!

Another tip is to write valid code! Those hackers don't tend to, so if something trips up my validator, I know something is wrong.

Thankfully I've never been hacked. Of course, saying that is only asking for it. Wish me luck!

Ocean's 12 was one of those films where it could have ended after 10 minutes and you wouldn't have known the difference, one of those films where at the end you think back over how you're never going to get that hour of your time back that was wasted in the middle section of the film.

Oh, and the Julia Roberts thing, just ridiculous.

Glad you liked it though ;)

Not only that, didn't one of your Blog Herald articles get quoted by RWW too?

Nice one!

Ha! Want to see an epic fail?

It seems engtech really meant all 13 of these words, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

I would so definitely get one of those MacBook Bears. Jobs has missed this customer!

I once had BBC news and Slashdot in my feedreader, when I used to use Thunderbird for that. Nightmare! I can't imagine what you were doing though!

My tip would be, if you use a home page like iGoogle, is have the news items coming into widgets on there. You never have to read them, they don't build up, but they are all at your disposal and available every time you open up your browser so you're not out of the loop.

It's definitely a good idea to have rules for your feeds too, though wiping out ones that don't post doesn't seem that great. They're not getting in your way by being there, but they may return with even better content than when you subscribed.

Oh no! First comment is a splog trackback!

Google is just protecting their best interests, having the most relevant search engine. It makes you wonder how they tell what a paid text link is and what a blogroll or other link is though.

As for spam, I'm getting hit quite hard myself at the moment, but doing the behind the scenes work clears it up. I don't see the point in taking out nofollow though, having nofollow won't stop the spammers. If you're using the original dofollow plugin, you could consider swapping to one that removes nofollow after a number of days (so that any spamments that slip through don't get nofollow removed before you can remove them) or another one I heard of recently which removes nofollow after a commenter has made 3 comments or more, so that it rewards regular commenters.

Hmm... sorry to comment again... I left a link in the last comment about strict and transitional doctypes, here it is again as it seems to have disappeared!

http://24ways.org/2005/transitional-vs-strict-markup

You're right, and aren't deprecated in XHTML (yet...) but their use is discouraged as they are purely presentational. The use of for emphasis and for strong emphasis is much better and you can style each element as you like.

Also, I would recommend using strict doctypes over transitional ones.

Awww... it's just that I got so close one time :-(

That is an awful game! Is it actually possible to win?!

I've definitely got to get thinking about this competition now!

Yep, if the iPhone was going to be sent out with a solid flavour injector, I'd have one.

Nice comparison, do you think Steve Jobs does so well with the formula because he has altered it from crazy, zany infomercial with crowd chanting to a smooth speech with a simple but effective presentation but keeping all the other factors, or because he's selling an iPhone instead of the Showtime Rotisserie Oven?!

Nice work and I enjoyed the first article too, it really does make sense. Good luck with it all!

I love CDs and I can't bear the idea of buying a song on download only. Owning a CD is owning a (very small) part of the band. I'm not against ripping CDs to my computer to listen to on my iPod, which I tend to do on shuffle, but there is nothing nicer than sliding a CD into my hi-fi and filling my room with the full sound. The idea of buying compressed music disappoints me too, and if the CD is replaced by mp3s then a part of the music will go with it and the point in quality stereo components will be lost, only left to listening to old CDs. I will be continuing to buy CDs myself, even the occasional single if I really like the band, and I hope it doesn't get replaced.

Sorry to point it out, but on top of engtech's problem, the link about Google and Feedburner is really one to Google Reader!

How biased are you, by the way?!