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Thursday, 6th September 2007

A worrying stat…

It turns out I’m 75% addicted to blogging. I didn’t think it would be that much!

75%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Oh the feeds, the feeds ;-)

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Thursday, 6th September 2007

new bits for Google Reader!

I use the nice Google Reader to read the many many feeds I’m subscribed to and, of course, I’m subscribed to the official google reader news feed!

Well, they put this post out last night on the new bits for google reader and I like google, thanks!!!

My fav feature only gets a small mention, but it’s a little grey arrow that allows you to read post items full page width, great for posts with big images in them!

Keep up the good stuff google, one happy user here.

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Monday, 13th August 2007

123-reg web/domain forwarding

Good news!  It seems that web/domain forwarding in the 123-reg control panel sets up a 302 redirect, which search engines like!

I emailed 123-reg asking what the redirect was. Well, I’d checked before I emailed and it was 301. But their email responce this morning said they only did 302 redirects and sure enough, I checked my forwarding this morning and it’s a now a 302, hurrah!

(I checked using a ‘headers’ check on the extremely useful network-tools.com

Thanks 123-reg, now yet another reason to use them!

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Friday, 10th August 2007

Domain Registry of America

I had (another) direct mail from this company this morning, offering their ‘wonderful’ domain renewal services. It was the first I’ve had in a while and I had hoped that I heard the last of them, but sadly no.

It seems that they’re up to their old tricks, once again informing me that two of my domains will expire in November and I need to act quickly and use their services to hold on to them. Of course, they fail to mention that my current registrar will let me renew the domains with them at a lot less cost than with the DROA!

For more on the DROA see:

http://www.synuk.com/droa/ and http://www.zandergraphics.net/articles/alerts/droa.html

As I’m in the U, I’ve lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority. If you’re in the USA, you can initiate complaints with the Federal Trade Commission.

I’ll post updates on here as and when they happen!

Edit: I received a letter ‘in the post’ from the Advertising Standards Authority on Saturday morning (wow fast work!).

It’s a startard letter covering DRoA matter and included a ‘Background Briefing’ about the DRoA as well, so they must be a common compliant!

Sadly, as the mailing are sent from overseas (the USA and I’m in the UK), there’s not a whole lot that the ASA can do about them.  Also noe the DRoA are nolonger using Royal Mail to distribute their mailing, the Royal Mail can’t help either! (The DRoA also only uses a remote mail box address in London which again complicates matters…)

The letter said that the ASA has also contacted the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission in the USA for their help. So perhaps a complaint to them is the next step…

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Monday, 11th June 2007

WordPress Stats

I wanted a simple little counter for a client using wordpress.

Anything like Google Analytics would have been way OTT and I really wanted to keep everything within WP.

I’ve found QuickStats: wordpress.org/plugins site; developers plugin page;

So far so great! Does all that I need, very easy to use and some nice features such as how many logs to keep, what to display and excluding from within the site itself. And if you’re an rss junkie like me(!) you can even have every hit sent to you in a ’secure using a magic number’ feed giving lots of info.

I’ve just installed it on this site as well!

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