Posts from April 2008

There is a memorial plaque on the northbound M40 motorway in Oxfordshire.

Out of morbid curiosity, I pulled over this morning to pay my respects and read the inscription:

Do not stand at my grave and weep Bring a picnic here instead Just be careful opening the driver's door Because that's what I did and now I'm dead

British Airways, shocked at missing out last years trophy, have launched a superlative campaign for 2008.

Agency: Itchy & Scraatchi. Cost: £25,000 found in a digger after the completion of T5. Gate 3 - Newcastle airport.

Together we can work wonders

Off to a gentle modest start.

Together we can get people talking about T5

That is certainly true.

Together we can make T5 world famous

Some wag has added a prefix of 'in'.

Together we can keep people smiling

Most people smile, dumped in Vancouver 17 hours late with no clean shirts and underpants, don't they ?

Together we can keep things moving

Well most things with the exception of the baggage carousels.

...and the final, closing, crowning glory.

Together we can get off to a flying start

Honestly, if you made it up, people wouldn't believe you.

Five months ago, I experimented with Disqus powered comments when this blog was running on WordPress. The trial was rather short-lived because I was disappointed that Disqus wasn't able to fully integrate with all the existing blog comments. Importing comments still isn't possible but Disqus says this feature is being worked on.

However, I have decided to reinstate Disqus for the following reasons:

• Disqus recently added integration with FriendFeed so any contributions I make on Disqus powered blogs will also be visible in my FriendFeed stream.
• I am encountering an ever increasing number of blogs using Disqus.
• I am hoping Disqus will help to trigger more comments, interest and interaction on the blog.
• Disqus provide a nice combination widget providing 'Popular', 'Recent Comments' and 'People'.
• The most recent release of Disqus included a raft of changes including support for Open ID.
• Disqus is being actively developed and, more importantly, listen to their users.

I still have some reservations that the couple of articles with decent comment threads included replies to earlier comments (which are no longer visible) so we are literally starting from zero. However, hopefully some comments will appear soon and the tabs will actually display something !

Aside: Unfortunately, adopting Disqus means I will no longer be using Matt Read's recently released Defensio plugin which is excellent and highly recommended for any Habari bloggers wading through a torrent of comment spam.