Phil's Ramblings » blogging http://blog.nomzit.com Often incoherent, usually random Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:46:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New US rules for reviewing stuff in blogs http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/155 http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/155#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:29:46 +0000 Phil http://blog.nomzit.com/?p=155 I just found this blog post which reports that the Federal Trade Commission have issued some new advertising guidelines. The net of it is that if you post a favourable review on a blog when you have been paid to do so (or given free stuff instead), you must disclose that rather salient fact in [...]]]> http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/155/feed 1 Progress report http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/72 http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/72#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:11:42 +0000 Phil http://philsramblings.wordpress.com/?p=72 I have a static demo of the iPhone interface to my new blog online.  Looks fairly crap in a desktop browser.

On my iPhone the main page with 2 abstracts expanded looks like this:

Next stage is to cut the static html up into reusable chunks so the dynamic version can put them together again with different content [...]]]> http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/72/feed 1 On blogging http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/70 http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/70#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:11:32 +0000 Phil http://philsramblings.wordpress.com/?p=70 I am becoming dissatisfied with wordpress.com as a place to keep my blog.  There are a few significant problems with it:

I cannot put whatever I like on here – for instance I wanted to add html iframe tags to my post about h.nomzit.com, and wordpress.com disallows that. It’s very slow.  I can’t use the gears-enabled ‘Turbo’ version [...]]]> http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/70/feed 0