Yet another Apple-hostile blog post: Why Doesn’t Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?. Can’t say I disagree.
I like this one’s comparison of Macs to hardware dongles. I like the article even more (and Apple less) when I think of the tight controls Apple is going to place over iPhone applications.
I just installed WordPress Mobile Edition plugin for this blog. Users using normal desktop browsers shouldn’t see anything different, but PDA users should get a more mobile-friendly version. So far I have only tested it on my PocketPC device; I don’t have a Palm to test it on.
By the way, the screen capture was made on my new PPC6700 running Windows Mobile 5 OS.
I have done it, I have upgraded this blog to use Wordpress 2.0. One can download WP 2.0 here.
WP 2.0 is not really new to me, since I had previously played with Wordpress.com, which was already on the then experiemental version.
The upgrade process was not hard, just tedious. I followed the upgrade instructions while watching a NCIS rerun.
I have been getting increased comment spam in the past week and it’s annoying. Imagine having to moderate 15 comments a day and removing the corresponding notification emails from my email account. I suppose it shows that my blog has reached some kind of online “status”.
I have just installed Spam Karma 2.0 and will see how effective it is in real life. Though I think it’s a bit of over kill for a nobody blog like mine.
Yesterday I came across the Blix theme. It is nice and clean, and it has that designer look. So last night I uploaded Blix into this blog and toyed with it for almost a hour.
In the end I decided to keep this existing theme. Sure my 3-column design isn’t fancy, but I made it while learning some CSS tricks. I still like the color combination I chose, all that’s missing are some graphics to jazz it up.
I have been tweaking my CSS file to format the <ins> tag. Right now in FireFox the inserted text is automatically prefixed with the bold string “[Update] ” and posfixed with the insertion date time.
The CSS fragment is like this:
ins:before
{
font-weight: bold;
content: "[Update] ";
}
ins:after
{
font-size: 0.6em;
vertical-align: super;
content: attr(datetime);
}
This is how FireFox renders it:
None of this, of course, works in Internet Explorer (at least not without a workaround).
[update @ 2006-01-27 21:48] I am reverted back all such changes. Content is content, it shouldn’t be encoded in the style sheets.
A blog with nice design: Wild Mind. Makes me want to dive into my CSS soup and redesign my blog layout.
Then again, I am lazy.
Technorati is like a search engine for blogs. Have you ever used it to perform a search on your company? I suddenly realized that I hadn’t done that before, so I did. It’s very interesting to read what (mostly) average bloggers are saying about the entity that gives out your paychecks.
Technorati also has a beta version of their site. It looks much more inviting.