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What happened to lostconnection.net and lostconnectionblog.blogspot.com

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I lately did some mess trying to find a good configuration for my online activities. This is what happened:

I once had a website called www.lostconnection.net and a blog on Blogger called lostconnectionblog.blogspot.com, but then I created a new website called andreabianco.eu and I decided to make www.lostconnection.net to be the blog address instead of lostconnectionblog.blogspot.com -- this didn't really sound right to me so I decided to make the blog reachable at the address blog.andreabianco.eu, delete the Blogger blog (lostconnectionblog.blogspot.com) and make www.lostconnection.net to redirect to my current website.


So this is the way things are now:
andreabianco.eu : my website
blog.andreabianco.eu : my blog (integrated in the website)
lostconnection.net : redirects to andreabianco.eu
lostconnectionblog.blogspot.com : will be erased soon (but the whole backup is live at the new blog)


I'm sorry because I'm losing all the stats and traffic and ranking about the Blogger blog, but this is a part of my Less Google decision and I'm glad I did kick Google out of my life a bit more. Ranking will hopefully grow again is I'll post good artworks and useful tutorials & resources smile

Cross domain web fonts on IE9 and Firefox 3.5+

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I discovered that IE9 and Firefox (from the 3.5+ I guess) are not allowing to use webfonts that are not in the same domain that is calling them. This means that if you are on domain www.domain1.abc and you have an html/css source there calling for fonts that are on a www.domain2.abc then you are out of luck.

I did browse the web for a solution and it looks like most people is using .haccess for fixing this, putting this
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
  Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
</FilesMatch>

in the file, so I tried too but it didn't help, I don't know why (see final edit)

Then I had an idea: what if the css that calls the webfont is on the same domain as the webfont? And it worked! So my tip for you is to write down a css snippet that defines the typeface, save it and put it on the server where you are hosting the webfont. For instance, this is what I'm using in my new website :

filename: cgothic.css
@font-face {
  font-family: "GOTHIC";
  src: url('GOTHIC.eot'); // for IE7 & IE8
  src: url('GOTHIC.woff') format('woff'), url('GOTHIC.ttf') format('truetype');
}


and all those files (GOTHIC.eot, GOTHIC.woff, GOTHIC.ttf, cgothic.css) are on the same domain. I can then link the css with the webfonts definition inside :
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://andreabianco.eu/cgothic.css" /> 

and get my cross-domain webfonts working also on browsers like IE9 and recent Firefox, which are applying more restrictive CSS rules, without a need for an .htaccess.

This solution is working for people that has the rights for putting the css in the place where fonts are, of course.

EDIT
So it seems the problem with the .htaccess approach was not caused by IE9 nor Firefox, but it did depend on my webspace server propagating the changes very slowly. This means that the workaround I used isn't actually needed smile

Imagine

While bodies of people killed by Breivik were still warm, a politician that is part of one government party said he agrees with Breivik and his ideas. You may think it's impossible, but it's not: it's just Italy. Please follow me for few lines, I really care about your opinions on this. It'll also give you a better view of what nowadays Italy is.

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Fundamentalists and news coverage

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It's interesting to watch the news after something like the terrible facts in Oslo happened. I mean especially watching Italian news, which are not like the average news people is used to in normal countries, since we are not a normal country.

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To Google or not to Google...

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It seems to me Google became the only way for experiencing the web: they produce all kind of services for all kind of activities, and most of the times their services become a standard. I think this is wrong and here it is why.

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A murder is a murder is a murder is a murder.

In my mind, a man that's supposed to be a criminal should be brought to a trial, where he can defend himself and where the main goal is to prove the truth and decide if that man is guilty or not. If he is, you punish him in the way that's more suiting his crimes, following the law. Here are my thoughts about the (supposed) killing of Bin Laden.

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