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Due to holidays and now illness (flu!), I’ve been away from the online world for a couple of weeks.. however few posts on my Google Reader subscription list were regarding this new Windows Live Writer.. so I decided to post this from it!

It’s good, I got it setup in less than a minute, detected my Wordpress and can download existing posts and hopefully post new stuff (this :))

The interface is clean and it even downloads your current theme to preview your posts as they would appear on your weblog.. nice

I’ll post a more detailed review after I’ve had more chance to use it, right now however I’m a bit under the weather so will retire now back to bed!

It seems the new netscape digg clone has a few unfortunate bugs!

Whoever did it only used alert to put up a couple of messageboxes, I think a digg.com redirect would’ve been better for comedy value

People who read this blog (yes, that’s you two over there!) might know that I’m currently working on a health/fitness/bodybuilding website in my spare time

We’ve created a pretty useful exercise encyclopedia full of instructional exercise videos

The only problem is getting it noticed! I don’t really want to pay for a link from a high traffic/high PR website.. I want the SEO to be natural, i.e. site geared for optimal user experience = natural SEO

I stumbled upon an interesting site that helps you to discover great websites on the web that others have visited and rated highly. Yesterday I placed a comment on Coopers Guns via StumbleUpon and since then there’s been a steady stream of traffic from StumbleUpon.. the techy nature of the users of StumbleUpon means little to no ad revenue but I’m more interested in mere eyeballs at the moment

Here’s some Analytics graphs to illustrate the above:

I’ve also purchased a licence for Shaun Inman’s Mint.. I like analytics but Mint gives me a clearer and more concise picture of 0-second statistics

Most visitors to the site use Firefox:

And not many use a resolution below 1024×768 (thankfully!)

I was a bit worried that Adsense wasn’t counting impressions properly as the “page view” count difference between Analytics and Adsense was off by quite a margin. I realised though that quite a lot of savvy/techy web surfers actually use stuff like adblock, etc… that explains the difference!

The spam quarantine directory on my mail server just reached around ~200MB and ~22k emails so I decided it was time for a cleanout.. before that though I compiled a list of the subjects from all the emails for your viewing pleasure!

spam subjects list

spam subjects top 100

I don’t know how long this update has been out but Google have finally added a fast way to limit your reading list to a certain subscribed feed or label set.. about time too!

The following seems to work quite well for some AJAXified forms I have (a behaviour.js rule):

'#form_field_id' : function(element){
	element.onkeypress = function(e){
		e = (e)?e:window.event;
		var kc = e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.charCode;
		if(kc == 13) {
			do_something();
			return false;
		}
	}
}

I’ve updated most of my WordPress installs to 2.0.3 and there’s a few dodgy bugs which are quite annoying - confimation when editing stuff that shouldn’t be there and also extra backslashes being inserted when editing things

Fortunately Mark Jaquith has produced a plugin which fixes these bugs

Just seen this on Digg… Google Spreadsheets

Looks very interesting!

If you’ve got a Medion MD40734 laptop and are having trouble getting Windows XP SP2 to function (garbled/frozen screen on bootup, even safemode won’t work) then this is for you..

You can get Windows working if you boot with your XP CD and go to the recovery console.. then type:

disable uagp35
exit

Now windows will boot but your display will be extremely slugish

• Download SIS AGP driver v1.17 (my mirror) (not newer!)
• Install the driver you just downloaded
• Reboot
• Download NVIDIA driver (my mirror)
• Install the driver you just downloaded
• Reboot

That should sort it out for you

The digg auto refreshing AJAXy queue/spy have been updated, they are now much more functional and aesthetically pleasing