A conversation with one of my fabulous readership:

If I like a site (or anything else), I take the time to point out what I think could be better. It’s a compliment. I’m glad you saw that- people can be defensive- think you’re hating when you do the suggestion bit.. I can’t help it. I went to school for art and we are taught to do just that.

How odd. Why would anyone be defensive about suggestions to improve something?

So here are some more compliments…

w00t! I like complements!

A “home” link would be nice. I keep trying to click on “Lisa 4.0″ to go to your main url. (doh!)

It does that already… but as I noted earlier, I’m using a “real” browser, Firefox, not some interloper pretending to be something useful (IE).

You name your posts by number, which is cool, but hard for a reader. I’m linked to an RSS feed now that tells me the numbers of the most recent posts, but not any hint as to what I might find in said post. It’s hard to navigate to a particular recent post one remembers- or tell what one has or hasn’t yet read when they are only sorted by number (and tags, but that’s by subject, not chronological). Maybe… A link on the right of most recent posts (with summary)? Naming posts? A calender?

Yes, I was being deliberately obtuse when I decided just to number the posts. I find it difficult to think of a title for things sometimes, so numbering seemed the easiest way around this. And every other blog on the planet has titles for posts and I wanted to be different. Course, different is not always better. I shall work on this…

Do you really look like the illustration at the top right?

Slightly. I wear those sorts of clothes, have that length of hair (well, slightly shorter but not far away from it).. but am not green.

It wouldn’t be so odd to subscribe to your own blog. Pretend to be a reader and see how it works… (at least that’s what I tell myself as I am linked to my own feed!)

Thought it might be that fine line that’s being crossed between enlightened self awareness and terminal egotism.

But I could be convinced either way!

I’ve been asked by one of my fabulous readers for an RSS feed for the site. Wow, I’m popular…

I’ve actually added one to the sidebar, but the template I’m using doesn’t actually display it.

However, in the address field (top of the screen where the URL is), there is a little RSS icon, which if you click, will take you to another page to subscribe to the site.

Now, I put a little disclaimer on this: I’m using Firefox on a Mac. I don’t know if it will appear in Internet Exploder, Safari or any of the plentiful other web browsers out there. I know it works in Firefox, and that’s Good Enough For Me!

Course, I’m not the one that’s going to subscribe to my own blog. That would be egotistical and perhaps even slightly odd.

Muahahaaaaaa…

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ps. The RSS icon appears in Firefox on eXtra Problems too!

pps. The RSS icon doesn’t appear in the address bar in IE7 on XP, but it is available as a button which links to the subscription page.

ppps. I’ve added an RSS feed link in the links panel at the right

Restaurant review time!

Check-out the statement at the bottom-left

Another M:Bot find.

Tech tips!

• Hate your Windows desktop?
• Running Xtra Problems, Windows 2Krap or any of the other laudable attempts from Microsoft to create an operating system that actually enables you – the user – to actually get something done?
• Wonder about the opposition, and what those mac-heads are really banging-on about when they drool over their shiny new macs and the operating systems thereof?

Wonder no more!

Simply download FlyAKite!

Download the Zip file to your Piece of Crap, extract the FlyakiteOSX executable and run it.

After a quick restart you’ll end-up with this:

…and feel a LOT better than you did.

All they’ve got to do is get the UI buttons on the correct side (MS has the window controls on the right, MAC has them on the left) and fix the Firefox icon (which when you add it to the dock, appears as the OSX finder icon) and they’ll be fine and funky!

w00t!