Archive for July, 2005

intelligence test

I strongly believe their should be regulation of the “spam” market.

Those who do not poses an IQ above 130 should not be permitted to act as spam couriers and merchants. I speak directly of the current “get firefox” spam trick..

IE7

Currently playing with the IE7 beta. It’s certainly an improvement, but MS has
a long way to go yet.

Dream run

So far so good.

I must confess that the move to dreamhost has been quite the excellent adventure [insert gratuitous guitar noise, here]…

free konfab

Konfabulator is now free, thanks to a Yahoo! buyout. Nice.

Oh noes..

Okay - so I’ve just had to perform a recovery. WP 1.6a completely trashed my database.

Not fucking happy, Jan. There is no way, no way I will, nor could anyone convince me that 1.6a is even close to usable.

on the move

Comments have been closed - on the move to a new web host and new domain name.. :)

Creative Carping

What is with
John C. Dvorak lately?
Not content to just
bag the concept of
tags (a system used by
Technorati and
Flickr for example, to ‘categorise’ topics and content based on searchable descriptive terms).
“The semantic Web is a dead duck, let me assure you..”

Good one John.. He’s now decided that
Creative Commons should receive the […]

anti-grav

I have disabled gravatars due to
gravatar.com going down..
[RC:d0f2732c]

PageBanking

Ok, so months on from the fanfare of Google’s rel=nofollow - does anyone still believe it did anything other than fix PageRanktm?!
The much lauded rel=nofollow tag, was originally aimed at
preventing comment spam, by reducing pagerank entries for ‘comment spam’, however in reality it has actually done little more than marginally stablised google’s PageRank system.

Under the hood - reboot

I’ve recently received,
like phu, inquiries as to how I created the template to drive the front page.
Phu uses a ‘custom’ home.php page derived from some original template code plus a bunch of new code that generate his brilliant
‘two tone’ front door design..

gravatars down

In case you are wondering, as
reported by phu, gravatar.com has gone (temporarily) down due to domain expiration.