• Oct 28, 2004

  MySQL 4.1 production-ready

  MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready. Still waiting for the MySQL 4.1.7 ebuild (relevant bugs - MySQL 4.1.6 ebuild, request to include mysql 4.1.6 in portage and add ~amd64).

• Oct 27, 2004

  How "well designed, popular and accessible" is your website?

  You'd probably already have heard of or seen Silktide Sitescore that purports to "rate how well designed, popular and accessible your website is". A while back it used to tell me I was a criminal for having an inaccessible website. I got sub-5 scores and a close-to-zero score for accessibility. I was surprised but attributed it the script doing something wrong somewhere (it is automated after all and Cynthia did tell me my site was OK in terms of accessibility).

  Recently, after reading Ingoal's post on an update to his score, I tried out Silktide again and to my surprise, got a respectable 8.6. (Ingoal's a fellow Advisor at SitePoint - this guy knows computers.) After some fixing some XHTML-validation borkage, I eked out a 10 for accessibility and managed to get a 9.2 overall score (and a 9.3 once). That puts me in the top 10 (true to form, I'm right at the bottom at number 10 below SitePoint).

  

  
  

  I'm not sure it means anything except that it goes to show what a poor boy I must be to keep posting about rankings and scores. Perhaps it's my low self-esteem working here.

  But I have to say again, thank you for your donations to Firefox and keep donating whether you do so via my donation link or not! (What am I talking about? Read more. This too.)

• Oct 27, 2004

  Made it into Spread Firefox Weekly Roll Call Top 5 Climbers

  Thanks to everyone's kind donations to the Firefox New York Times ad effort, I made it into the top 5 climbers (of the past week) on Spread Firefox.

  

  
  

  Once again, thank you for donating to the cause. (There's 100 points to be had per donation, and there were 12 made via my donation link.) I'm bowled over by the support for Firefox and more so by the support for me (or at least I'm glad that people are bugged enough by my constantly going on about donating to actually donate!)

• Oct 27, 2004

  BioWare store opening soon, Neverwinter Nights modules for sale

  BioWare is launching their BioWare store on November 10 (hey that's my birthday) and they're selling premium Neverwinter Nights modules (developed in-house by BioWare and the Neverwinter Nights community). Rather smart sales strategy. I'm considering getting one of those modules myself.

• Oct 27, 2004

  Opera 7.60 Preview 2 for Windows

  Opera 7.60 Preview 2 for Windows is now available. Changes since Preview 1.

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