Charles on… anything that comes along

For anyone who also runs a blog, this is more relevant. Anyway, I’ve tweaked the “recent comments” thing (it’s on the right-hand side, further down) so that it now

• shows who commented (OK, it already did that)
• shows what post they’re commenting on - NEW!
• if you hold your mouse over the post name, shows the first 15 words of the comment - NEW!
  (though do you think it should show more words from the comment? Tell me)
• shows the URL of anyone who puts a URL in the comment field - NEW!

This has been done by a judicious bit of tweaking of the “Recent Comments” plugin, available here.

Oh and by the way..

Isn’t that great?

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• Patience, please.. (30 July 2005; score: 59.4%)
• shuffle iPod at review Register The: or hate it you'll love either it (11 February 2005; score: 41.32%)
• The first hour out of the box determines whether you'll love a product (2 August 2004; score: 34.49%)

• Windows Live
  Microsoft does Ajax (well, they did invent it). Very interesting. A lot of bugs remaining to be worked out (and I’m told it doesn’t work on Safari - take that, Acid 2 compliance!) - but this shows a lot of promise. Depends how easy it is to add stuff you want.
• Presentation Skills 101
  

  Microsoft Live. Just what I want, ads in my word processor. I don’t want to waste any more breath commenting on the product; it’s the presentation that interests me. Or appalls me, to be more accurate.
  How can the most successful technology company in history, run by the richest man in the universe, stand in front of the world with such incredibly lame slides in their presentation? They look like something put together by a high school kid who just discovered clip art and shaded backgrounds.

  A former Apple guy who worked on iDVD and other Pro apps is appalled by Microsoft’s presentations to introduce its new product. Looking at the slides (follow the link), he really has a point. (Seen at Writers Block Live)

• Dave Winer: unimpressed by Microsoft Live launch
  

  the [wireless] net went down halfway through the presentation, just as they were getting to the demo, which was a total wipeout, biggest failure I’ve seen in almost 30 years in the biz. I think there’s a pretty good chance they cut off our net access so we couldn’t write about it real-time, if so, it was a brilliant move, but an act of desperation. Or maybe they got lucky. Whatever, their announcements today leave some room for real game-changing on Google, which needs to happen, asap, before the opportunity goes away. We need Google to get some serious competition, and Microsoft is one of the places that can come from. (Apple and Yahoo are the others.) But they’re going to have to do much more than they did today.

  Even so, it’s an interesting project..

• New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Writer told to take this Jobs and shove it
  Wow, Steve Jobs upset at a biographical piece about him? Who would have thought?
• “Twenty Four Whole Dollars For This Little Island?”
  

  In the past six months, we’ve had three different magazines contact us and ask if we would be interested in including a full version of our software on their CD. To be clear, they weren’t asking about including the demo, something we’re always happy to have spread around. These editors were interested in including a fully licensed, unrestricted version of one of our applications, free of charge.

  Rogue Amoeba has been asked three times by British magazines (presumably Mac ones; are there more than three?) to provide its licensed software free for covermount CDs. Which they’re really not about to do. (Seen at Rogue Amoeba)

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• Steve Jobs piece in The Independent magazine (29 October 2005; score: 68.34%)
• My review of "iCon" - the latest biography of Steve Jobs (20 May 2005; score: 67.89%)
• Apple to marry IBM? No, and no, and no (8 December 2004; score: 57.38%)