18:47, 27th February 2007
On my other blog, a WordPress one that I have hosted myself, I have added the FireStats plug-in so that I can get some idea how many are paying it a visit. It has definitely been useful. It tells you referrer, operating system and browser information as well as what has been visited. While I know that I can look at my server logs to get this information, this is so much easier, and it can be extended to non-WordPress PHP-powered pages too.
Hansel and Gretel Breadcrumb is another plug-in that I have spotted, but given that the blog is set up, it didn't look that useful. If it could be extended to my non-blog pages, à la FireStats, that would be a much more useful situation.
18:28, 7th February 2007
I have just spotted an interesting behaviour in the Recent Posts section on the left sidebar here: the space between the penultimate and final words in a heading is the HTML entity for a non-breaking space, rather than a real space. That means that a browser sees the two words as one rather than two strings and has consequences for text wrapping of these last two words in the phrase. The workaround is to watch the lengths of the last two words, but why things were set up the way that they are in the first place is beyond me.
18:32, 2nd February 2007
A BBC reporter logs his impressions of Vista over a 24-hour period. A frequent Mac user, he comes away impressed.
Update: I have seen a post somewhere that slates the BBC for being pro-Microsoft; personally, I doubt that they are any more biased than anyone else out there in the media. Maybe the gripe comes from a Linux or Mac fan...