Google ChromeThe Browser wars are expanding and Google has just launched its foray into the war - Google Chrome.

I am posting this message using Chrome and I think I like it. It's fast and has a minimalist style.

It also seems to import all the settings from Firefox.

It has a few nice bells and whistles too - you can drag a tab to the desktop to open a new browser, and you can drag tabs between browsers. It is also supposedly better with web applications.

The url/address/omni bar is a little ugly with the large font and slight greying out bits of the url, but it is usable. Not as good as the Firefox "Awesome Bar".

After my recent interweb troubles, I have decided to move away from 1and1 and have chosen the hosting services of eUKHost - they seem to offer a lot more for a similar amount of money (after using a discount code).

The new set has around three times as much guaranteed RAM, 4x as much Burstable and almost 4x the bandwidth as before. (which I don't really need. yet.), two ip addresses as standard, and fast help, either as live chat or over the phone 24/7.

So far the new service has been excellent - they even transferred the data and settings over for me!

After the troubles with 1and1, this is a massive relief and I would recommend them very much for hosting.

This post is brought to you in conjunction with hotspot shield (because the access issues are continuing) and 11 heavens through which I found a simple fix the the bounding issues with the ablock theme.

According to the 11heavens link, Drupal supplies a css class to fix the bounding issues I was experiencing on this site with the current theme. I have now filed an issue for it to be fixed.

Lo and behold, a new theme - A Block by couzinhub.

Functional, unassuming and good looking were the things I was looking for (and in that order) and this theme provides them all by the bucketload.

A little bit of History. Again.

When I first started this site, it had a basic theme - a slight modification to the default theme for pmWiki. It was unassuming and did its job.

Then I moved the site to Drupal. With drupal came a multitude of choices. Good choices, but at times a little overpowering.

Just imagine if there was a service to create word clouds to describe a website? Well there is.

Running The Revival website's link through it gets us this picture:

The Revival Wordle: click to enlarge

The large words (ignoring the word "will", "read" and "upon"), the stand out words seem to be "Prophet", "Muhammad", "Peace", "Heaven" and "Islamic". I would say it kind of successfully describes that site. Which it would as it uses the feeds the make the cloud. (It can make clouds for any site with a feed, or any lump of text input into the page.)

cross posted at The Revival