Rather than repeat the story in new words, here is a draft of the post that was sent to Cyberfox’s support forum. The short story: Cyberfox no longer displays text as of this morning after working well for its first evening yesterday after installation for the first time. Glyphs that are not from a @font-face […]
Read More… from Cyberfox day two, or, the day it, too, stopped displaying text
Since the Firefox for Windows updates in November, I’ve had a big problem with the Mozilla browser, and the Waterfox 64-bit version based on it: they won’t display text. I had to downgrade to Waterfox 32.0.3 for the last month or so, but it’s begun crashing more and more regularly (from once a day to […]
Read More… from Switching to Cyberfox, after Waterfox and Firefox stopped displaying text
I was curious tonight to see the rate of growth of entries on Autocade. It hasn’t changed greatly. The initial 500 didn’t take long, but, since then, every 500 entries have taken 18 months to be added. However, the traffic has grown at a much faster rate. March 2008: launch July 2008: 500 (four months […]
I contacted Auckland Airport through its Facebook on Tuesday over the matter in my previous post, and got an immediate reply from someone monitoring its social media. She tells me that she will ask them to furnish me with an urgent response. I am still waiting. It’s a bit of a worry when this is […]
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With Autocade exceeding the 5,000,000 page view milestone (it’s on 5·12 million), I thought it might be fun to look at a few of the models on the site: the most popular, the least loved, and the first on the site. Looking at the stats, here are the most popular models. These shouldn’t be […]
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I’ve blogged several times about the bot problem that Facebook has, and this is an issue that runs alongside the click farms that operate on the website. One of my groups has over 12,000 members, and it’s a magnet for click farm participants, who target these bigger ones. And when you look through the […]
Read More… from Where the action is on social media, and it’s not Facebook
It’s sad to read the news that Motor-Presse Stuttgart will not publish the Auto Katalog annual this year. That means last year’s, the 57th, could have been the ultimate edition. There are complaints on Amazon.de, and I was all ready to buy a copy myself—typically I would have an order put in through Magnetix […]
Read More… from The demise of Auto Katalog, and little to fill the void
Last month, I Tweeted Facebook, asking them to raise the reporting limit for bots. Right now, you can report around 40 bot accounts before a warning box comes up asking you to slow down. If you do another 10, you are barred from reporting any more for 24 hours—even though you are trying to help […]
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I see the media are laughing at Sarah Palin when she referred to the White House being at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. And yet no one laughed at Google in 2009 when it didn’t know what was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Google Maps was new to me then and I installed it. I had […]
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Equal access: an audio recording of this blog post can be found here. It’s disturbing to see so many Kim Dotcom jokes post-General Election, with plenty of Kiwis happy to ridicule the bloke because of Internet Mana’s terrible showing in the polls, and the loss of Hone Harawira’s seat. Yet not too long ago, […]