Sam Davyson - Latest Comments

Re: Firefox Usage up at Weekends

Asa Dotzler — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:31:41 -0000

Sam, I've been watching these trends for a number of years and have access to the actual daily number of Firefox users so I can add some insight here.

All browser usage, (all of it, really, for each browser) fall _dramatically_ on weekends. The number of people going online with Firefox falls almost 25% on weekends and holidays.

How does that square with Firefox's share going up on weekends and IE's share going down? Remember first that share is from a consistent 100%. Even when the absolute totals rise or drop, the total share is always 100%. So, if Firefox's absolute user base falls by 25% on weekends, yet its share grows by several percent, the only conclusion is that IE's absolute user base must fall more than 25% on weekends.

But, it's even a bit more complex than this. If you look at browser _versions_, you'll see that IE 7 and IE 8, along with all versions of Firefox, increase share on weekends.

So, what's actually happening is that IE 6 is falling very very steeply in absolute terms on the weekends and so all other browsers, as a percentage of total usage, are rising.

The big conclusion from all of this is that IE 6 is either more heavily used during weekdays (at work) or much less heavily used on weekends (from home).

If you could pull IE 6 out of the entire system, you'd see that the usage share of all of the other browsers was actually pretty consistent without dips or rises on weekdays or weekends. It's the one strange outlier, IE 6, which holds enough share and absolute users, to have a rather dramatic influence on the entire system.

Re: Natwest: Fuck You

ant — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:27:52 -0000

Natwest is a complete farce. they have robbed me of £2000 pounds over four years in hidden and doubling up of charges. the staff are so inept its a total shambles. No surprise that NatWest is owned by Royal bank of Scotland who in turn have ruined our economy and we all foot the bill. We should all demand our money back. Taking the power away from these con artist bankers.

Re: O2 Online System Randomly Resets Your Username For Security Reasons

sgd — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:58:06 -0000

Hi.

I am on holiday until the 6th August 2008.

I will get back to you then,

Hope you're having a good summer,

Sam Davyson.

Re: O2 Online System Randomly Resets Your Username For Security Reasons

tiatops — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:56:27 -0000

Well then they should post your new details to you free of charge every month. no other login site changes your login details. ( im sure there is some kind of law that does permit them to do this )its just an excuse as i have been searching for many months to find out if anyone has ever managed to login to 02 to see there on line bill. NOPE not one person.

Re: Many “Available Units” in New Grand Arcade, Cambridge UK

Dave Curran — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:33:03 -0000

There is a floor plan, but it's remarkably well hidden -
http://www.grandarcade.co.uk/uploads/files/pdf/...
...and it does indeed reveal just how empty some of the centre is! It'll no doubt fill up in due course, but for a centre as closely planned as this one, it's a fairly major embarassment.

Re: Mozilla.com Is Getting A Redesign

Fri, 23 May 2008 05:47:58 -0000

I've already got the new package :)

Im using the improved version as pre-production.

Re: Inbox Zero

sgd — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:32:03 -0000

Disqus commenting system. We're now live.

Thank you very much.