Feedburner - WordPress.com provides users with statistics about feed subscriptions. At best, these metrics were questionable and I used to provide two RSS feeds (WordPress and Feedburner) so the metrics didn’t capture all feed activity anyway. As there is no equivalent functionality in WordPress 2.0.4 out of the box, I resurrected my Feedburner account and installed this WordPress plugin which automatically routes any subscribers to the WordPress RSS feed through Feedburner. Sitemap - I started from zero when I created this site so I could try my hand at organic gardening. The only search engine I submitted to was Google. When I was trying to encourage Google to index the new site, I discovered that a sitemap could accelerate the process. This WordPress plugin generates a sitemap which tells the Google crawler about the site structure and recently updated pages. The sitemap automatically gets updated after each post and helps to reduce network traffic.

Just downloaded Firefox 2.0 RC3 and it worked a lot better then my previous experience. My lengthy list of extensions (or add-ons as they are now called) also worked fine. Google Browser Sync CoComment Performancing My thoughts now turn to the day when Microsoft unleash IE7 on the world through automatic updates to universal acclaim apart from my wife who will comment ‘Why did they have to go and change everything ?’

I support England but I simply can not help laughing uncontrollably at this goal. I wonder what Steve Maclaren was jotting down: ‘Give David James a call when I get home’ ‘More backpassing practice tomorrow’ ‘Get lawn cut at weekend’ ‘Wonder if Gareth will have me back as assistant ?’ Almost as amusing is the media backlash against Maclaren. Inevitably, the honeymoon is over before it even started. Pity there is no-one better to replace him. ...

I might have been dreaming but I swear that the load average on this DreamHost server was over 400. Now I realise DreamHost is offering inexpensive, shared hosting but this is a little excessive. I just wish they’d told me I would be co-hosted with Amazon, Yahoo and eBay.

Google have announced ‘Docs & Spreadsheets’ which is an overhaul of the original Writely interface and integration with Google Spreadsheets. I must admit I prefer the Google Docs interface and was interested to see that Docs can still publish to a blog (just like Writely). The documentation suggests that tagging the article with keywords will be mapped to matching blog categories and that the document title will indeed be preserved in the blog entry. However, a simple test confirms that neither of these two features work as advertised (on WordPress at least). Sigh.