With the third one, I often find it on resource sites that they mention which pages they’ve updated without linking to those updated pages. Those actually annoy me too.

On a closing note – your sidebar drops in IE6. *sadface*

Ack, thanks! I never would have known because I only have up to IE 5 on my computer. Stupid Microsoft refuses to develop a higher version for those of us who want to cross-check our websites! :( Whoever actually uses IE 5 on their Mac for normal, every day browsing is a total masochist. ;)

Strangely, the sidebar doesn’t drop in IE 5, but the background doesn’t show up. Still functional, just ugly-making.

I need to figure out how to work around that issue. Off to find a friend who uses Windows!

EDIT: I believe I’ve fixed it. Now I need to fix the transparent PNG image issue in the ‘Random Bits’ section. Oh, joy, more fun with Internet Explorer.

Awh, damn, you stole the idea I was just about to blog about!

Sorry about inadvertently stealing! I was planning on blogging about all the deeply stupid things people say to me about language-learning (and getting a degree in Modern Languages) soon so if you’d like to steal that, go head. ;)

Anyway, I’m addicted to RSS feeds. I think I’m subscribed to about 200 right now, but many I skip if I’m too busy (all the time) or lazy (most of the time). I like my feed reader, Vienna, so that helps. I used to use an feed reader that I sort of hated and I never checked my feeds. Now I check everyday.

Since I just (re)started this blog I have yet to add trackbacks (links as well as displaying them), but I definitely need to get on that for the sake of having it done in case it’s ever needed in the future.

I’m not a fan of ‘he said/she said’ stuff either unless it’s an amusing bit of conversation (sort of in the style of an Overheard in New York type deal) that either doesn’t need context to be funny or the context is explained.

Unless I know who someone is and their general ‘role’ in your life, unlikely for me to remember if you call your friends L and K (says the person with the one-letter name) which I completely understand, I find myself skipping over posts like that.

Thanks for commenting on my new layout by the way.

Anyways, to the real reason I’m here : to comment!

I don’t subscribe to any RSS feeds myself, but I could understand why hiding one’s feed could be infuriating to visitors. Any self-respecting blog these days *needs* an RSS feed. Visitors simply don’t have the time to keep coming back to your site to read your entries – RSS feeds are essential, and to go and hide them is a surefire way to lose yourself visitors.

Mixing trackbacks and comments is definitely high on my blog pet-hate list. I only recently worked out how to separate them in my WordPress comments, thank God.

“I hate the feeling that I’m coming into a conversation late or that I’ve just walked into a room and everyone else has just started laughing, but I’m stuck in the dark.”

That is so true! That’s part of the reason I hate the “today I did… and she said… and he said…” type blogs. I don’t feel “in the loop”. Only once I’ve gotten to know a blogger (through reading many entries) would I be prepared to read a “today I did…” entry, but how will I get to that point when all entries are like that?

On a closing note – your sidebar drops in IE6. *sadface*