Google Analytics
For some reasons Google Analytics isn’t working properly on hyprtext. The background for the graphs are there, but no data appears on them!
This worked perfectly in FF on XP. Is there some sort of issue with Ubuntu?
[tags]google analytics, firefox, ubuntu[/tags]
Word Count Journal
Word Count Journal might be a good option if you would like to start a blog, but aren’t sure how you will manage the words. A blogging NaNoWriMo, anyone?
Sometimes a little bit really does go a long way. In Word Count Journal, by gradually building up your writing stamina and discipline, you will see just how easy it is to get a whole lot done. By simply writing a set number of words each day, every day, you will write a whopping 66,795 words at the end of one calendar year. Little by little, through the power of series, the total of your written words will add up to more words than contained in the average novel.
Quite frankly, the thought of reading a blog where the words have to be dragged out of the author in this way fills me with horror, but I guess for someone who isn’t sure about dipping their toes into blogging waters, it might just help.
But then…a WordPress.com account is free. Go there instead.
Technorati Tags: word count journal, wordpress
Did Wikipedia Really Ban Quatar?
Of course they didn’t. But for a little while, it looked like they might have done:
Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address
shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for
anonymous edits, but is allowing users of that IP address with actual
Wikipedia accounts to continue to edit articles. There’s one problem,
though. You can’t create an account if you enter Wikipedia from that IP
address.
Jimmy Wales quickly responded on the wiki talk page for the IP address in question:
Iff [sic] you came here from a news headline saying that Wikipedia has banned all of Qatar, please pop right back over there and post in the comments that the story is not true. This IP number was temporarily blocked for less than 12 hours, and a block of an entire nation would go absolutely against Wikipedia policy. In the English Wikipedia, such an action would require approval of at a minimum the English Arbitration Committee and/or me personally, and would never ever be undertaken lightly, nor without extensive attempts at direct negotiation with the ISP and/or nation in question.
To any and all reporters, from Slashdot, TechCrunch, mainstream media, etc.: You may email me and ask me for my personal cellphone number, which I will answer 24 hours a day to confirm or disconfirm any such story of this type.
–Jimbo Wales
Fair play to Wales, he does his best to put things right (he commented on the TechCrunch thread pretty quickly).
Once again, this ruckus has brought up the issue of Wikipedia requiring people to log in to edit. Wales seems set against it, determined that Wikipedia remains open.
[tags]Wikipedia, Techcrunch, Jimmy Wales[/tags]