Mooquackwooftweetmeow

Concatenating zoölogical onomatopœia since 1999

About Mooquackwooftweetmeow

Hi! This is Mooquackwooftweetmeow, a collection of stuff by Greg K Nicholson.

The Complete Archive

  1. Big New Tab Button An add-on for Firefox. It makes the New Tab button bigger.
  2. Into the Fire This entry is not a good idea.
  3. Remove Close Buttons from Tabs A self-explanatorily–named Firefox add-on.
  4. Just Give Me A Back Button An extension to remove the Forward button from Firefox.
  5. How to set up a Canon i250 printer in Ubuntu 8.10 A script to set up a Canon i250 printer in Ubuntu 8.10
  6. Welfare State Fail Hartlepool's local MP strikes again—in London
  7. New Elements in HTML 5 A quick look at a couple of the new elements in the new version of HTML.
  8. Line of Sight A short narrative.
  9. Unprecedented Occurrences Yesterday, I bought some clothes—reasonably priced(!)—from Marks & Spencer (one pair of jeans @ £9.50; two T-shirts @ £3.50 & £3.00 respectively); I also listened to a Nine Inch Nails record—and liked it.
  10. The BBC Loves Them Some Microsoft Either that or they're crap journalists. Or their technology editor's wholly unknowledgeable (which really amounts to the same).
  11. Places’ Full Titles An extension for Firefox.
  12. The BBC Misunderstands DRM With the furore over the BBC's unfair use of DRM in its iPlayer, one would expect them to know what DRM was. Apparently, they don't.
  13. Dumb Lock How much power would we save if every single Num Lock light in the world suddenly ceased to function?
  14. An American entry I came across The Ethical Blogger at …Blogger, and was reminded (via a quote from the New Yorker) that writers from the United States seem to enjoy using “American” as an apparently-meaningless adjective before almost any noun at random—which is jarring for English-speakers who aren't from the United States, particularly when the topic at hand isn't specifically American.
  15. A Quick Vignette, Using the Gimp A brief tutorial.
  16. The Poppy Appeal Have you ever seen Huw Edwards wearing a pink ribbon?
  17. Hydroelectric Given that hydrogen fuel cells can be used to run cars, why not use them to run power stations?
  18. Three Blogger bugs A summary of several annoying bugs affecting the Googlemonster's blog-publishing service.
  19. Exploding Articles Ideas and expectations snowball.
  20. Shingai Shoniwa’s socks I just noticed how similar the colour scheme at the Friday Fetch-it is to that of BrooklynVegan—this wasn't intentional. I actually picked the colour from Shingai Shoniwa's socks:
  21. BBC msPlayer How the BBC are helping Microsoft maintain their monopoly on the UK's operating systems.
  22. Whoever wrote the Job Centre’s website should be fired The UK government can't even run a website, never mind a country.
  23. The Big Brother Final is tonight, but what’s the weather like? During the climax of this year's Big Brother, some idiot decided to live-blog the view out of his bedroom window.
  24. How to write kick-ass blog posts like it ain’t no thang Copy Trizoko.
  25. Answers on a Postcard No comments
  26. How To Make Scroll Bars A Little Bit Easier To Use If I say this was inspired by the iPhone's user interface will it get me more hits? (I thought of this while reading about how the iPhone forgives sloppy keypresses.)
  27. How To Make Thunderbird Well Sexy How I envisage the Thunderbird of the future—we'll have it in our flying cars. (This is a re-publication—with a few minor edits—of a comment I wrote to Asa Dotzler's blog post about the reaction to the reorganisation of Thunderbird's development.)
  28. Hiatus The golden age of Mooquackwooftweetmeow is not upon us.
  29. Take the Drowned in Sound pledge Refuse to comment on anything rated 8 out of 10.
  30. On “on Volta” (This is the first entry I've made from Ubuntu.)
  31. Six I've been tinkering with the site again.
  32. I'll be brand new, brand new tomorrow; a little bit tired, but brand new If I wanted to spend the new year being reclusive, I'd start playing Homogenic at 23:21:01, so that Pluto ends at midnight.
  33. Keep It Simple, Stupid The Stupid shouldn't be there; Keep It Suitably Simple is much better, and even provides the requisite two Ss for the acronym.
  34. Planet X-4: Pluto is a Planet; so is Eris; so is Sedna; and so are Charon, the Moon, Ceres, Titan and Quaoar Hang on – I thought you said...?
  35. Dear LazyWeb, How Do I Make iTunes “Play Next In Party Shuffle” from Windows' Command Line? After the last entry I was gonna wait until November before writing anything, but then I got bored. Also, this entry breaks my previous record for “most subsequent entry titles to incorporate ‘Laz’”.
  36. The Greatest Comeback Since Lazarus More words will come soon... honest
  37. TFI Firday The Mooquackwooftweetmeow Empire continues to expand relentlessly
  38. Taking Organised Crime Seriously You can tell from the name - they're not messing around.
  39. The Weirdest Part Another one bites the dust
  40. The Hippy Test A checklist of telltale hippy-being symptoms.
  41. Standards by Virtue of Shouting Louder or “omg it si t3h stand4rd lol”
  42. Pinky and the Darkness That last entry was pretty vitriolic, wasn't it? This one's much nicer.
  43. Google Desktop 2 Really Annoys Me Google's trademark people might not want to read this.
  44. November Yeah, I know. No entries for a while.
  45. Off to York I'm off back to York today; I'll be back on the Internet ...at some point.
  46. Actually-Free Opera Opera is now actually free, properly, for real.
  47. Party Shuffle on Crack Seems it's possible to add your entire iTunes music library to the Party Shuffle just by misdragging the Library icon into the main window.
  48. Magically Disappearing Extensions Warning: this entry contains Mozilla-related minutiæ... or Mozillinutiæ if you will.
  49. Bigger than an iPod nano Why, it's iTunes 5
  50. Le singe est dans l'arbre This may be running the risk of descending into linkblog territory, but anyway: this article about hidden settings in Mac OS X Tiger includes a nice reference to Eddie Izzard. The screenshot for the bit about spellchecking in a second language uses Le singe est dans l'arbre as a sample French phrase.
  51. Stuart Maconie is going to get shot ...with a gun - by lots of Geordies who aren't wearing shirts but are enjoying excellent music.
  52. Free Opera Captain Opera to the rescue!
  53. Your Computer May Be Commandeered By Randomers I'm often amazed by how many screenshots of Firefox include a critical update icon. A red disc in the top-right of the browser window means there is a critical update to Firefox available and that you should upgrade immediately.
  54. Google Desktop 2 Fourteen hours too late.
  55. Microsoft Desktool MSN Windows Search...top...bar Now you can look at things stored on your computer... using MSN!!!
  56. The Recent Entries Page In the category of Changeblog: The archive is getting increasingly heavy, so I've knocked up a Recent Entries page.
  57. Vega 2 Mooquackwooftweetmeow in more colour
  58. A rant about foreigners Middle-endian dates are crap.
  59. Back/Forward Dropdown Menus - an Extension for Firefox An Extension for Firefox that turns the entire Back and Forward buttons into dropdown menus.
  60. Bookmarks' Full Titles - an Extension for Firefox An Extension for Firefox that shows bookmarks' full titles in the Bookmarks menu and Bookmarks Toolbar menus.
  61. Back/Forward Dropdown Remover - an Extension for Firefox An Extension for Firefox that removes the dropdown arrows from the Back and Forward buttons.
  62. Atom 1.0 Coming Soon It's been on my to-do list since Rakaz published his guide to moving from Atom 0.3 to Atom 1.0, but now I've modified the Mooquackwhatnotbot to produce an Atom 1.0 feed.
  63. Vega Mooquackwooftweetmeow in colour
  64. Planet X-3: Pluto Still Isn't a Planet, Neither Are 2003 UB313 and 2003 EL61 They finally found it - again - another tenth planet, this time unnamed but temporarily designated 2003 UB313. It was also announced yesterday that 2003 EL61 may be roughly 70% Pluto's size.
  65. The Style Switcher is Dead; Long Live CSS I've killed the Style Switcher - see? It's just an empty shell of a page. This is mainly because I've killed the multiple styleage.
  66. I don't like The O.C. Channel 4's sucky morning TV's back for the summer
  67. A Party Election Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats The Mooquackwhatnotbot was broken, so I cooked this up as filler material
  68. Netscape 4 is newer than Internet Explorer 6 If you thought Netscape 4 was outdated, check out IE6.
  69. Obfuscating Tedium Damn, I love that thesaurus
  70. Man-Driver It's always a bad idea to invent words (disclaimer: this doesn't include concatenation)
  71. Map.search.ch Gets Cooler It's like GTA but for the real world!
  72. Tabbed Thunderbird Proposal for a one-pane interface for Thunderbird
  73. This is why you should always keep your web browser window at a random size Whoever wrote the Google Gulp FAQ evidently doesn't unmaximise their browser very often and decided to size the main content column in pixels.
  74. Where Next? Another improvement to the Whatnotbot
  75. Mozilla Europe is Useless Evidence that geographical segregation on the web doesn't work – it's pointless anyway
  76. You have to go and spoil it for everyone Grumble! (Any word can be onomatopoeic)
  77. America's screwy Really, it's not their fault. Poor bastards.
  78. Netscape 8 Beta Review The latest developments in the ugly web browser scene
  79. Making M-Theory Simple Cosmology for kids
  80. The Register's Inability To Do Research Mocked by All Everywhere This is the first entry I've made while standing.
  81. IEBlurb Another Microsoftian view of “Browsing the Web”
  82. Thinking Different This is not how to write proper.
  83. Computers Don't Listen Remember, folks, hardware is the part you can kick.
  84. Now Slightly Less Cool 404 - description not found
  85. It's a Weblog Entry! What - the title isn't descriptive enough?
  86. Normal service will resume shortly You didn't think I was dead, did you?
  87. To Do To-do list
  88. Get Squirefox More spoof Get Firefox buttons
  89. Self-Infringing An email I just received contains the following as part of the small-print at the bottom:
  90. The terrorists have already won Covering news is generally a bad idea; news should be reported, there should perhaps be a little analysis from experts, but then that should be it. Unless new information or further developments arise, news programmes and channels shouldn't dwell on what we already know.
  91. Featured Entry I now get to choose what goes on the front page while maintaining my beloved automation
  92. Firefox-related miscellanea I was going to entitle this entry Mozillanea but realised that was intensely naff.
  93. George Bush, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, John McEnroe, Britney Spears, John F Kennedy, Paris Hilton, Bruce Willis, Michael Jordan, Jay Leno, Rudolph Giuliani... Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating Hello, America? You lose.
  94. Live Bookmarks How to swap bookmarks with your friends, with help from a Firefox
  95. en-semantic Writing English correctly is difficult. (By the way, for non-hacker types, the title implies that semantic English is a distinct dialect of English.)
  96. Jukefox Why does no-one listen to you when you're right?
  97. IEBlank The Internet Explorer gang's collective web browsing knowledge
  98. A-level exam results Rather predictably, the results of my A-level exams
  99. Firefox extension wackiness Firefox extensions prompt much mirth
  100. Bringing down the establishment one pillock at a time This one's gonna lead to a few years in gaol (...it's fun to spell "jail" like that)
  101. UNcalled-for pUN The UN is a shining example of naffness.
  102. Bandwagon-Jumping as a Scientific Experiment All your weblog are belong to us.
  103. First-come First-served Intellectual Property More proof, if proof were needed, that the plane of existence we like to call the universe, is categorically bonkers
  104. Slight Delay OK, so I spent the last hour designing Sirius' logo. It is quite difficult to come up with distinct designs that look like stars and are viewable on a light background... so I've slightly cheated.
  105. Work-in-progress Thanks to Doug Bowman, I'm having a bash at conjuring up a new design for the site
  106. This title isn't funny, witty, quirky or original Why did the blogger cross the road? No-one cares.
  107. InterCraps Another English-related public service announcement
  108. The Emporium Can't Count An hilarious example of corporate idiocy
  109. Reorderiffic You thought this was a weblog, but no! It's a changelog!
  110. Loosing My Mind Learn to spell, you troop of pillocks!
  111. White People Proven Unfriendly The latest findings of the Commision for Racial Equality
  112. Plan Change II More tweaks to the site
  113. I've Got A Brand New Content Management System And I'll Give You The Key The Mooquackwhatnotbot, what it does, how it works and what it ate for breakfast.
  114. Foundation and Whatnot A book? What - on paper?!
  115. Bye Bye, Gormozilla The gormless Mozilla Support mascot goes AWOL
  116. No Blues Overzealous fastidiousness rears its ugly head once more
  117. RIP Decent TV Bloody teenagers
  118. Alright Now There she stood in the street, smiling from her head to her feet.
  119. Proper Multiple Styleage The site's multiple-style-ability is now up to scratch
  120. Style Switcher Choose a stylesheet with which to view Mooquackwooftweetmeow
  121. Print Away Rejoice! Rejoice! The print stylesheets have returned!
  122. Toliman Alternate stylesheet-orama
  123. Slight Change of Plan Permanent links, take two
  124. Welcome to Moo­quack­woof­tweet­meow version 3.1 Whoa, Nelly! Is that an overhaul I spy?!
  125. About Me, Greg K Nicholson Whose fault is all this?
  126. Prototastic I've just got the backbone of the next version of Mooquackwooftweetmeow working.
  127. Don't hash those numbers! I just remembered XHTML ids aren't allowed to begin with numbers, so it's probably not a good idea to give weblog entries permalinks like mine.
  128. Hash those hs! A quick request of everyone who writes web pages, especially weblogs, or who designs web page templates:
  129. Trippin' For those of us who don't fancy the psychological side-effects of cannabis, but want to see what all the fuss is about, I've devised the following pseudo-stonedness induction technique (PSIT):
  130. Whoops! It seems Google forgot to do their homework - gmail.co.uk
  131. Quote of the Minute: 2004-06-19 23:34 BST From El Reg, In the tape, the Userland owner says he has no plans to host websites ever again - although this is probably a moot point, as no one will ever trust him to host websites again.
  132. The Gmail Web Interface and How To Avoid It I have one fairly major complaint about Gmail's web interface - you can't open multiple emails in tabs by middle-clicking. (Pot+kettle sidenote: one can't middle-click links in this weblog either, but that's an XSLT fault in Gecko.) In fact, it seems the links one clicks to open emails aren't really links at all (right-clicking offers no Open Link in New Tab/Window options). This would put me right off using Gmail permanently.
  133. Gmail invites by the busload After my unexpected Gmaily fortune yesterday (every mention of which must be suffixed by thanks Jeff), I just got the offer of another Gmail invite, from none other than Asa Dotzler. In fact, Asa was only a few hours behind Jeff (hard luck, Asa :) ).
  134. Gmail I've just received a Gmail invite from Jeff Walden. [insert your favourite deity/expletive] knows why he chose to send me one in particular - all I can say is thanks!
  135. Indie Pop Rocks! (Thanks to DxF,) I've just discovered SomaFM and I can confirm that indie pop does indeed rock.
  136. Microsoft Bollocks If you've ever visited msn.com, you'll probably have a couple of cookies from them stored by your browser. Whilst perusing my stored cookies just now, I found one from there entitled MSNADS.
  137. How to remove the borders from Firefox and Thunderbird's toolbars Qute, Firefox's old default theme (and Thunderbird's soon-to-be-retired default theme) doesn't have borders on its toolbars (at least in the latest Firefox version; see also the Qute FAQ). Winstripe, the new default theme, does. Personally, I prefer no-borders - it looks cleaner.
  138. The Wonders of MiracleGro SCO Grows Your Business, apparently. Using some kind of crazy business-compost? And a business-plantpot? Do they have business-gardeners to make sure your business is growing well?
  139. Does Your Browser Have An Add Toaster Button? Firefox's New Tab button looks like a slice of toast sitting in a toaster - with an overlaid plus symbol, of course.
  140. One Tree Hill I've been using Winstripe for a couple of hours now, and I'm surprised to report that it's passable. Crazy, eh?
  141. Watch out - here comes the “link to other weblogs” trick! Redesigns, anyone? Looks like fun.
  142. The Twaddlebot has been unleashed Last night version 1.0 of The Twaddle went live. It uses arbitrary XML and XSLT to generate valid XHTML pages... offline.
  143. On-the-fly page validation I wonder if this is possible. I've been dabbling with JavaScript a little recently, in order to produce The Twaddle's Expletatron and this seems like something that should be possible with JS:
  144. Chameleon The Twaddle v0.21 is up. It now has multiple, user-choosable themes; the current options are the three (modern) themes that have already been published - Forest, St. George and Yellow Sky, plus the Default theme, currently Yellow Sky.
  145. Stop! Thief! I've read articles about CSS design theft before - I never thought I'd be a victim.
  146. Very curious... Mozilla browsers have long had an easter egg whereby if you enter about:mozilla into the location bar, you're presented with a nice quote from the Book of Mozilla.
  147. Free fastness I'm on ntl:broadband - mint!
  148. I've actually just finished the last post... Aren't foreign websites funny? slaap lekker!
  149. Adventures in XML I did manage to get the XML+XSL-based jiggery-pokery for The Twaddle working - quite nicely, actually. Getting the entire contents of the content field onto the page took a little bit of effort, as described on the mozillaZine forums.
  150. Opera + XSL = Eugh Evidently Opera doesn't like XSL - this weblog shows up as a lot of plain text with the odd URL chucked in. The question is whether I care.
  151. IE + XML + XSL + XHTML + W3C = Get In! As a prelude to some major back-end renovation I'm planning for The Twaddle, I decided to see if I could get Internet Explorer 6 to display this XSL-ified weblog nicely, not accounting for IE-unsupported CSS (which is already taken care of at The Twaddle). Previously, IE displayed the DOCTYPE declaration as plain text at the top of the page; using strategic HTML commenting, I've managed to prevent it from doing so.
  152. Wow - two entries in ten minutes - you'd think this was a weblog or something This sort of thing should be better publicised. (By the way, I think that's his serious face.)
  153. Hurrah for Ridiculous Quotes! While perusing this weblog at this ridiculous hour, I happened to follow my (text) link to the April Fools' Day thread on The Twaddle Forums, whereupon (oh, yeah!) I saw this most ridiculous quote from my cousin, who likes to call himself bob:
  154. Mandrakelinux A couple of weeks ago, I decided to take the plunge and install Mandrakelinux (10.0 Community) on my Windows XP box, for some dual-booting fun. Mandrake installed remarkably easily, and I found I could easily access my Windows documents from Linux.
  155. April Fool! Only kidding - it's not really.
  156. Planet X-2 The press release is now online, as is Mike Brown's Sedna page, at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2004-05/ and http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/ respectively. Right then - Sedna isn't a planet - it's not even a Kuiper Belt Object. According to Mike Brown, the Kuiper Belt has a fairly sharp edge at 50AU (1 Astronomical Unit is the distance from Earth to the Sun, 150 Gm); Sedna comes no closer than 70AU. The appropriate term for Sedna is Inner Oort Cloud Object (and I'd like to take this opportunity to lay claim to the acronym IOCO).
  157. Planet X Well, they finally found it, Planet X, a.k.a. Sedna. Of course, if it is decided that it is actually a planet, the name will have to be changed to a Roman god. Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the ocean, and the Roman god of the ocean - Neptune - is already taken.
  158. Apostrophes I'm now using the aforementioned RSS Reader to read this weblog. So it has to be valid Atom, the content must validate when RSSified, and still validate when XHTMLified. Thus, to save hassle relating to escape characters and other such technicalities, I'm now using straight apostrophes as quotes. It's ugly, but it works.
  159. Bye Bye, Sharpreader Since the demise of the free FeedDemon betas, I'd been using Sharpreader or Wildgrape NewsDesk (depending on what mood I was in) to read RSS feeds. Neither was perfect, but I'd settled on Sharpreader, despite the oh-so-slow notification pop-ups (this on a 2.5GHz machine...). But today I thought I'd give the RSS Reader Panel for Firefox (http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#rssreaderpanel) another try. Guess what? It's pretty good. The Open In Contents Area option now produces a spiffy-looking display, with the option of customising the CSS used (so you can't complain even if you don't like it).
  160. VirtuaWin Multiple-desktop-ery is allegedly a somewhat standard feature of Linux desktops; here on Windows, however, it's incredibly cool. Two desktop multifiers for Windows that I've recently used are DoubleDesktop (http://www.fatfreesoft.com/) and VirtuaWin (http://virtuawin.sf.net/).
  161. The Twaddle is now printastic, and other web-authoring-related digressions A while ago I added a print stylesheet to Mooquackwooftweetmeow; now, The Twaddle's had the same treatment. On Saturday I also gave The Twaddle a site icon, so the site's now approaching Mooquackwooftweetmeow in completeness. Does this mean v1.0 any time soon? Probably not...maybe.
  162. RSSification 2RSS (http://www.2rss.com/) has a nice converteriser which outputs any Atom feed (such as this one - wink, wink) as RSS, available at http://www.2rss.com/software.php?page=atom2rss So now even if your newsreader isn't Atom-enabled you can still read this weblog; now you've got no excuse.
  163. Lulu If you were expecting an entry about a singer, or a female pet or something, you'll be disappointed. I've been having problems with the L and U keys on my (fancy, wireless) keyboard. Turns out the keys can be popped off; after a few minutes fiddling with the pseudo-rubber doings inside, and performing a transplant between L and Esc, all keys now work fine ...as you can probably guess from the fact that I've typed this.
  164. Winwall I had been using Microsoft's Wallpaper Powertoy to rotate my desktop backgrounds; I now use Winwall (http://net-session.com/winwall/). The biggest limitation of Microsoft's Powertoy is that it only recognises GIF (boo!), JPEG and BMP images - i.e. not PNGs. Winwall, however, recognises all four formats (and probably more), and its automatic resizing looks much nicer. The program is closed source, but freeware.
  165. Pluto Isn't a Planet Officially, Pluto is a planet. In reality, it's a member of numerous Kuiper Belt objects which orbit the Sun beyond Neptune. When it was found, 74 years ago, Clyde Tombaugh was searching for a planet and so assumed what he had found was one.
  166. Moo­quack­woof­tweet­meow's Going Nowhere I now have my own PURL top-level domain. What in the heck is a PURL top-level domain? PURL stands for Persistant Uniform Resource Locator - an URL is just a normal web address. A PURL is simply a redirect, designed so that it persists indefinitely; I can change what purl.org/mooquackwooftweetmeow/ points to, but the PURL itself never changes. This means that if I ever move to another webhost (which I don't expect to happen very soon), I can point purl.org/mooquackwooftweetmeow/ there instead. This weblog can be found at http://purl.org/mooquackwooftweetmeow/weblog, but unfortunately KlipFolio doesn't understand HTTP redirects. Bugger.
  167. Klipfolio + Atom = 1/2 OK, I can't embed an Atom feed in a Klip, but you can view Atom feeds using Klipfolio. Its Feed Reader Klip (http://www.klipfarm.com/farm.php?page=info&klip=916) accepts Atom as well as RSS 2.0 and RDF (RSS 1.0).
  168. Isn't XML wonderful? Despite an hour of valiant effort, I've been unable to convince Gecko to render XHTML embedded in an Atom feed. I've tried encoding the arrow brackets, various namespace trickery... to no avail. So you're gonna have to put up with plain text URLs, until someone can show me how it's done... anybody?
  169. No Knoppix The 2004-02-09 version of Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) doesn't seem to want to play nice with my computer. It's probably something to do with Nero's burning of the CD; if it's as good as its proofreading, I've got no chance. A couple of days ago, when writing over a CD-RW, Nero kindly warned me that I might loose some data. Yes, loose, not lose. As in My shirt is quite loose., Did you lose weight?.
  170. Namespaces are fairly fun The Feed Validator (http://feedvalidator.org) gave me a thumbs-down :( Entries' IDs have to be valid URLs, you see, and I'd been using them as arbitrary labels. I'd also been leeching off these arbitrary labels in order to create anchors in the XHTML representation of the feed; those using a web browser can check they work by clicking this item's title; those using a news aggregator can visit the alternate link; in both cases, the item's title should be at the very top of the browser window.
  171. Wow! Internet Explorer can even mangle XML! Here's me thinking Internet Explorer wouldn't display this feed properly! Obviously, it doesn't... but it at least has a go at mangling it, leaving this text (and this) legible. You do get a nice piece of HTML above the title, however.
  172. Freewebs aren't very good at MIME types... part II Sorta got side-tracked there... Anyway, to get around the incorrect MIME type problem (which made Gecko refuse to play ball), I've tagged .xml onto the end of the weblog's files; hopefully that'll satisfy most browsers.
  173. Freewebs aren't very good at MIME types Freewebs is obviously designed to cater for webmasters who've never heard of Jeffrey Zeldman... Like most, if not all, free web hosts, Freewebs use filename extensions to determine what MIME type to serve for a file; this is OK, until they get it wrong. Granted, Atom and XSL aren't the most commonly used file formats on the web but nonetheless Freewebs could bother serving them with the proper MIME types.
  174. Klipfolio + Atom = 0 Well! It seems that one can't (easily) use an atom feed as klipfood :/ By easily I mean I can't just point it towards the URL and have it automagically work, like it does for RSS. Eh, well... I'm gonna hold the klip back until I can get it assimilating this feed; at the moment it's just a rehash of the RSS feed, intermingled with The Twaddle's RSS feed.
  175. Copy and paste... By the way, those URLs in the previous post are just plain text; unless your browser parses plain text URLs, you're just gonna have to copy and paste them for now - I'm not an XML expert and the prospect of digging about trying to force Atom and XHTML to work together to produce links, isn't appealing... maybe later.
  176. Hurrah once more! That w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/) is pretty decent. I've now concocted an XSL stylesheet for this feed, so visiting its URL in a (good) web browser should display it as a nice page.
  177. Hurrah! Well, then... this is an atom weblog. Why's it only in atom format? Everything on Mooquackwooftweetmeow is done the old-fashioned way - using the human brain, a plain-text editor, and no PHP, ASP, SQL or any other fanciness. And I don't want to have to copy every entry out into an XHTML page. I'm thinking of having a bash at some XSLT, to automatically generate a fancy front for the weblog; I tried it with the RSS feed, but didn't quite manage it satisfactorily; perhaps my standards are just too high (after all, I am using a free web host).
  178. Take Back the Web This is the bit where I talk about Mozilla Firefox for a while
  179. It's Still Not A Tree The website formerly known as This Wasn't A Tree
  180. Norwegian Beer I once had a drink Or should I say It once had me