I was browsing the Fair Review Project again today, aimlessly wandering from link to link to see if there were any interesting or amusing blogs on which I could waste a bit of time before I take my Mum out (happy birthday Mummy) later.

Somehow I ended up at a review of a blog from the directory and from there, the same entry (replicated on another blog). Although the entry itself wasn’t particularly interesting, a comment from an obviously self-important male caught my eye:

i feel that girls dont venture into the IT industry coz they have limited spatial thinking and visualizations

Of course, being a girl-geek I quickly responded — defending my ‘position’ and calling him out for sexism — simply for the sake of making it known what I think of opinions like his of course. Except, after I posted it I realised that I’d just added a comment to a blog I’ve never read or replied to before aimed at someone other than the owner of the blog, with not even a passing mention to the original entry.

A massive violation of blog etiquette, or part of the normal entry/conversation progression? Do you delete comments from people responding to someone other than yourself or let it slide?

Thank you to those who sent me e-mails and/or left comments after my ranty post yesterday. I appreciate that effort that it takes to try and be sympathetic or supportive so it’s always nice when I’m on the receiving end of that good will. I chilled out with some beans on toast and an evening… read full entry »

An interesting topic came up between a few friends today about people who follow web tutorials and then claim that the product of those tutorials as their own. This made me wonder about the general attitude out there, so of course — as a curious git and a tutorial writer — the logical option was… read full entry »

What the hell is it with the sudden burst of people using the comment subscription tick box (plugin?) with WordPress? Is it really that prosperous for a website owner to have it automatically ticked? Does it benefit anyone? Do I care what other people are saying on your website? No, no, no! I really do… read full entry »

I was trawling through my Awstats logs yesterday (as it’s the start of the month and there’s less to go through) and noticed a site insisting on direct-linking to my free avatars. Now, usually I don’t mind too much if someone has taken the occasional one but this particular site was using several avatars on… read full entry »

I was sent the link to Beautiful Day/Piczo Help earlier as a nomination for a Pants Awards. I was going to give one but I can’t be bothered to type all that crap out so I will say: shut your bloody whining you ungrateful tit. You just can’t expect to be able to redistribute some… read full entry »

In December I posted to a thread at the fanlistings message board where a member was advertising their little hosting business. Replying to several other members who were ooh-ing and aah-ing at the prices, I pointed out that they weren’t that great and that after commotion regarding other generic teenybopper hosting it might be wise… read full entry »

Direct linkers are, quite frankly, the bane of the Internet. They claim images and other multimedia as their own when it’s clearly not, and use up your bandwidth. This is not such a big deal if you’ve got hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth to spare, but those unlucky people who’ve only got a few megabytes… read full entry »

The one major downside to offering free stuff — graphics; photography; tutorials; scripts or in this case: wordpress themes — is that there’s always someone out there willing to steal them, and then butcher the fuck out of them with their ugly stolen celebrity photos. So, Ana aka Evenso, age: “Old enough to know better”… read full entry »

It annoys me when I browse the Internet and see teen “web designers” in various forums complaining that they’ve had various “blends” or supposed “original artwork” stolen from them. Said artwork usually contains a sloppily edited celebrity photograph, a few dodgy Photoshop™ brushes or textures, with a few illegally downloaded (yet usually expensive) fonts chucked… read full entry »