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by John.Karakatsanis

I guess I must have owned about 10 domains at some stage in my life; .co.nz .net .com all for either business or pleasure. Currently I have two, maybe three -clarification later- domains. This article is about people who buy domains with the sole purpose of profiting from them by selling them to owners of similar domains, or by taking advantage of a technical error to renew someone else’s domain, then sell it back to them. Both of these ‘practises’ have happened to me.

I used to have a lovely domain name, mahita.net, it is based on the Maori word for sage, teacher. While I was running this domain for my teaching business, I moved flats. At the same time, I moved my cable service with me, and here began the problems. For a domain you have to provide an email address which is NOT the same as the domain, and NOT one of the many free services; hotmail, yahoo, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

A while back, I bravely foolishly said I would only change the theme on this blog if I made it myself. Didn’t stick to that promise at all. However I am genuinely interested in making themes, and decided to get my feet wet by converting a CSS/XHTML theme to use in WordPress. Read the rest of this entry »

Promising fuller details later in another post, I have just added a section to this blog where I can try out themes I am designing/converting. I fumbled through the first convert of a coolwater theme, and how I did it will be published soon, along with download possibilities if anyone is interested.

Being the impatient type (read: stupid), I overdid it a bit yesterday, and with 2 slipped discs I now find myself virtually confined to bed. I am dividing my time between reading Hemingway and tinkering with my blog. I have a low boredom threshold which means I can’t focus on either for any great period of time.

My tinkering, as usual, took me into murky waters and, inevitably into problems with cross-browser compatibility. I like the idea of using little icons to identify what happens when you click on a link, for example a pdf file. This works a treat… until your link spans more than one word and those words occur at a line break. This is actually ok for all browsers except Internet Explorer. What a surprise.

There’s not really a fix which I liked - I don’t want hacks, or IE-only code - so I just put a non-breaking space between the words. Check my previous post for an example. I understand it’s not technically a bug, but wouldn’t it be nice if pages could look the same anywhere? If anyone has a decent solution to this, please let me know.

Firefox 3

I joined in the rush to download the latest Firefox browser, version 3. I am happy with it, but I won’t go on extolling the virtues, there are far more qualified people out there already doing that. Plus the fact that it’s only been a day, so in my opinion it’s too early to pass judgement. I am happy that it’s faster, it looks good and hasn’t crashed yet. Still hogging my memory though, where are those tweaks? apparently this is to be expected. With all the improvements, and all the functions, extra speed, memory will be consumed. I can live with that…

Update: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord