I wrote a little code snippit the other day to warn readers about posts further down the page, which may not be safe to have on your screen at work. This was a really simple exercise, but it really bugged me that this short warning message always began with a digit. To me, that just [...]
If you run a small website, but haven’t heard of Google Analytics then you’re missing out. Google offers a hosted stats system for website owners who want to take an interest in where their traffic is coming from and how long visitors spend on their site, but that offering has just become a lot more [...]
Right now, and for a limited time only, if you visit Google Translate and translate a sentence with Heath Ledger’s name in it from English to Spanish, you’ll get a result referring to the much maligned Tom Cruise.
So, do the españophones really think that Heath Ledger is a scary whacked out scientologist with control issues? [...]
Take a moment to enjoy a dramatic reading of a real breakup letter. Make sure your sound is on for this one.
This has been passed around the net a lot, but unlike most of those things this one is actually pretty funny.
Following some links, I managed to get sucked into a black hole of intelligence where only the indescribably stupid can survive. I felt myself devolving the longer I stayed. It was like a Barney episode with a repetitive techno soundrack.
On my way out I found this guy’s website [link removed by request]. On it he [...]
I’m a big fan of interoperability, but there’s a point at which your investment in a particular vision or statement starts to suffer. I’m slowly doing all the things I want to, to this site, but there’s one thing I’ll never be able to achieve efficiently, and I have to admit it bugs me!
If you [...]
A thread by Beejy on the (spanking new) forums, about workplaces blocking access to time-wasting sites like MySpace and Facebook, reminded me of a website I tripped over a while ago.
Great Firewall of China purports to allow testing whether or not a particular website is blocked by the government of China, in their efforts to [...]
The morons at Ten News have put to air a story about MySpace taking some token PR steps to increase the safety of kids on their service. Basically it was a fluff-piece for MySpace, helping them address the PR concerns which have been plaguing them precisely because mainstream media has blown everything out of proportion [...]
If you run your own blog, as opposed to using one of those marvelous cluster-fucks like Blogger, then you know the joy of clearing spam posts intimately.
You can make it more difficult to comment on your blog by introducing an image verification system… You can keep checking your spam bin to see whether any legitimate posts are being caught… [...]
Today Google added an ‘extra large’ option to Google Image Search. This makes it easier to search for images for your high-resolution desktop, or for use in print. Teachers will be especially happy to be spared the horror of over-stretched images in homework. The rest of us should be respecting coprights a little more than [...]
Thank you Jayme Blackmon for the simple IE6 Double Margin Bug Fix, and thanks to Google for listing it first.
If you have a floated element such as a div and you place margin-right or margin-left on that element, our most beloved Internet Explorer 6.0 will double that margin value, causing havoc in your html layout. To [...]
Most people aren’t particularly careful with their computers. As a result quite a number of residential PCs are infected with virii, worms and spam relay agents. In an effort to contain this malware, a number of ISPs have elected to prevent their customers from connecting to outbound mail services outside of the ISP’s own network.
This [...]
