Stuff from MJR

Couple of interesting points from MJR: Annoying blog comment misfeatures: letter images Just tried to leave a comment on Sasquach wears a yellow hat at blogger.com – it has one of those annoying “type the letters from the distorted image” screens (which don’t work well [w3c]). Even when I switch images on, I can’t get … Keep reading

Links 25/1/06

The Beast – 50 most loathsome Americans, 2005 edition Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize

More censorship news…

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site from within Iran has dropped sharply over the last three days. No official explanation has … Keep reading

Google censors itself for China

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google censors itself for China This is a very disturbing news story indeed, and is starting to convince me that maybe MJR is right… The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn – which it will censor itself to satisfy Beijing’s hardline rulers. Google argued it would be … Keep reading

Performancing’s Blog Improvements

Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not found”? Even better for you, do you provide handy links to your top content, a … Keep reading