Category Archives: Internet

Technorati and Newsweek Join Forces

I didn’t learn of this until I happened to post something with just the right tags. Then suddenly I started getting dozens of referrals from MSNBC’s Newsweek section. The online versions of Newsweek and the Washington Post now show related Technorati results in a sidebar. This should help Technorati stand up against the advent of […]

Armchair Archeology

Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa. Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It was the meander of […]

Filosofo Comments Preview Now on WP-Plugins.org

I’ve posted the source of my WordPress blog plugin, Filosofo Comments Preview at the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can see the source or view the wiki. And if you use Subversion, you can get the latest version from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/. For example, on a Linux machine you might type svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/   to “check out,” […]

Opera Giveaway

I’m a Firefox man myself, but I respect Opera. Usually you have to pay to register your copy or put up with sidebar ads. But today you can get a free registration code from Opera, as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations. (It’s really that old?)

WordPress Upgrade

I just upgraded the software that runs this blog, from WordPress 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.2. Everything seems to have made a smooth transition. I did notice that my new Filosofo Comments Preview plugin for WordPress was missing some variable names in WordPress 1.5.2, but a few quick changes and I have the new version ready to […]

Firefox Market Share Slips

Hearing news that Firefox’s market share slipped from 8.71% to 8.07% from June to July while Internet Explorer’s edged up about one percent, a friend emailed me: Apparently Firefox is losing market share. I think it’s just that everyone who wants it has already gotten it. The general public might try it but the minute […]