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These are user-acclaimed tweets, most of them just comedic, but some telling whole little stories.
Thinking this way is a bit like trying to think haikus; perhaps why another competitor in the space is called Jaiku.

I use twitter, and every day I have to block another few 'webcock' (webcocks) followers. Also, someone has developed a script to just follow every single person there is. You look into someone and see they have 3 followers, and are following 66,000 people. Not good, twitter.

Anyone looking for blog features in Firefox should take a look at the Performancing extension instead.

Though I personally prefer Deepest Sender. Supports more blog APIs, a pretty neat interface. Works great with LiveJournal and is probably best LJ client for Linux, but it doesn't work that well with Typo-based sites (I can post, but can't tag or categorise as I go).

Anyone know a Firefox extension blogging client that would also do proper previews for Textile, the markup that Typo supports? Almost all seem to be able to do bare HTML, but not Textile.

I think the best solution is to replace html tags with "<" and ">" in all user input. If you want users to format their output use a markup language you define or something pre-existing like Textile

Use Textile. It's intuitive, simple and quick.

http://textism.com/wordcleaner/

"A tool that strips proprietary Microsoft tags and other cruft from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting intact. File sizes are greatly reduced, and the returned HTML is easier to read, revise and employ."

5 for a 24-hour pass, 20 for a 1-year individual subscription.

No, I don't work there.

Here's a tool I saw linked off of O'Reilly Radar once:

http://textism.com/wordcleaner/

I used it once and it did a pretty decent job at preserving the tables. Yet if they're using anything odd like graphics or it's been incredibly tweaked, it probably won't be 100% perfect.

Textpattern is very good. You can use Textile in comments, nice and easy simple text formatting right there.

This utility strips proprietary Microsoft tags and artefacts from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting and typographic entities intact.

I use this Word HTML cleaner web service. Works well. Drop a penny in the paypal bucket if you like it.

Verisign.

a) All British coffee is crap

I was going to say more, but I think that it would detract from the point.

Disclaimer: I'm English, but I live in the US.

Verisign

$300 is more like 20 times (or more) what you'd pay for a domain if you avoid verisign

if you would like to improve your website, you might like to look into the work of actual designers. don't pay attention to the ramblings of nielsen.