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Archive, May 2002
Friday, 31. May 2002
5K ASCII Typesetter
[02:21 pm]
IDEO ASCII Typesetter, very cool entry for the 5K contest.
Thursday, 30. May 2002
[10:16 pm]
I found the most beautiful web page in the world!
Wednesday, 29. May 2002
[08:39 pm]
I got my monitor back today and everything seems to be back to normal. Everything is so big and large now. It was hard to stare at the 15 inches screen all day long. Maybe my monitor broke in order to call more attention. I love it, there is no doubt about it. By the way, do you turn off your monitors overnight? I have never done that. My PC and my monitor are on all the time. Not very environment friendly, though.
Tuesday, 28. May 2002
[09:15 pm]
Should I use a DOCTYPE declaration?
A different use of tables, TableArt.
Monday, 27. May 2002
[09:46 pm]
The Q tag. I found the reading very interesting. I thought, I knew all the HTML tags, but I discovered the Q tag just recently.
Sunday, 26. May 2002
Little bird
[12:44 pm]
We found a bird today. A cat was about to eat it. The bird was in the cat's mouth! I still have no idea how we managed to save it. Does anybody have an idea what kind of bird this may be? It is still pretty small, cannot fly, but I think, in a stable condition.
Doc's entry for this year's 5K contest, truly rocks.
Friday, 24. May 2002
[06:58 pm]
Awful smell in house? Check your computer!
You may find a dead mouse in there.
[Via Igor].
Thursday, 23. May 2002
How to drive traffic to your site
[11:56 pm]
I like Nataly Portman and Milla Jovovic, and would love to own a Ferari, and be rich like Michael Shumacher and be smart like Albert Einstain.
How to drive traffic to your site? Just misspell something. Misspell Britney's name. I did it once with Jolene Blalok, unintentionally, and got lots of hits. Don't take me serious here, I really don't think that somebody would be interested to stay here, after searching for Britney and finding a frog site.
Wednesday, 22. May 2002
[08:46 pm]
Netscape 7.0 preview release is out. Netscape 7.0 PR1 is a pre-release version for users to test and provide feedback and it's based on Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2, which came out just recently.
Tuesday, 21. May 2002
[10:58 pm]
OzoneAsylum Chess Tournament round 2. I am playing against DocOzone. Cool! I'll post the link to the game as soon as Doc accepts my challange.
Google Labs publicly tested. Some new features they are working on: glossary, voice search, search with keyboard shortcuts.
Monday, 20. May 2002
[01:13 pm]
Normal people spend their long weekends fishing, playing in the nature, visiting places . . .
I've spent my whole weekend preparing this site for the PHP/MySql/Apache transfer. It'll take some time, but we are getting there.
Saturday, 18. May 2002
[12:00 am]
How to hide CSS from buggy browsers, a comprehensive list of different CSS hiding techniques.
No more target="_blank" here.
Friday, 17. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Check out Milov's !drawLine bookmarklet. Very cool. Next time my boss comes to my computer I'll definitely use it.
Thursday, 16. May 2002
[12:00 am]
I am honoured for this recognition during the game between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen. What else can I say?
Wednesday, 15. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Today, I stumbled across PHP versus ASP. Many interesting points. I think, I am at the point where I would be able to make a switch here at sashaDesign.com (as if it were a big deal, heh). My hosting company would do that for an additional charge of 50$, which is fine for me, but there are some other issues that I am worried about. For example, all the pages indexed by Google (or some other search engine, if there are any) would disappear because of the file extension change. Some URLs are better than others, but unfortunately I didn't think about that before. I know that it is possible to tell the Apache and PHP engine to execute pages with the .asp extension, but I don't have access to the httpd.conf file. Can I do that via .htaccess file? Maybe I can solve the problem using mod_rewrite, but I am still not clear about that :-) I am thinking out loud again, I know.
Tuesday, 14. May 2002
[12:00 am]
I am without my monitor until the next week, maybe more. It just burned. I have to use my old Intel Celeron 333 MHz for a while because my old monitor does not work on the new computer :-( Shit happens.
At least my warranty is still valid. "Life is a struggle, accept it."
Monday, 13. May 2002
[12:00 am]
This is very motivational.
LIFE IS . . .
by Mother Theresa
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Sunday, 12. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Saturday, 11. May 2002
[12:00 am]
I've spent an entire day without my computer. Unbelievable!
Friday, 10. May 2002
[12:00 am]
I am currently playing correspondence chess. Make sure to check the games. Mas will be checkmated in the next move :-)
Svarog, I would be more then interested in your input on how this site looks in all variaty of browsers you tested on Linux yesterday. I am watching you :-)
Will this get you off the computer?
Sounds unbelievable but according to Dr. Chuck Gerba, University of Arizona, there are about 10 million germs swarming around your keyboard at this moment, which is about 400 times more than the average toilet seat. [via Spiegel]
Thursday, 09. May 2002
[12:00 am]
This is interesting:
Xenu is a pretty cool piece of software, and it is free. Xenu found 1911 links on sashaDesign.com. 5% of them are broken, which means, I'll have some work to do :-)
Here is the report. I zipped it, because the size of the HTML file is about 2 MB!
Browsing around the Xenu web site, I stumbled across an interesting link, The Mozilla Museum.
Wednesday, 08. May 2002
[12:00 am]
I changed the DNS record on my web sites many times, but this is the most weirdest thing I have seen so far. Igor and I have transferred Clue Design to a new server as reported earlier. Usually it takes about day or two for the DNS change to propagate through the Internet, but this time strange things are happening, even after 5 days. Right now, I see our web site on the new server (PHP pages), but still can access the Webmail which is on the old server!? The new server does not provide Webmail service. How is that possible? How can I access two servers at the same time? I am completely confused.
Tuesday, 07. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Search engine theme pyramid. An interesting article of how to make your web site search engine friendlier.
I have never seen a limo as long as this one. We found it in our neighbourhood, it is coming from New York.
Monday, 06. May 2002
[12:00 am]
When people ask kindly, why not help them. Verisign.
I love Spiegel's photos of the day.
We have transferred our corporate site to a new server. Now, we will start working on redesign. We are tired of the current look and feel. It needs more serious and corporate look, doesn't it?
Saturday, 04. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Talking about yesterday's post, it is interesting to see Adobe's demonstratation of what they believe the infringement is.
Friday, 03. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Adobe Wins Patent Trial Against Macromedia.
Adobe was awarded $2,822,280 in damages and the company anticipates that the court will issue an injunction to stop Macromedia's infringement.
By the way, going to the page above, you will get a pop up window with an Adobe ad, done in Flash :-)
Thursday, 02. May 2002
[12:00 am]
There are good hosting companies and there are bad ones. With the latter one, you can expect all kind of weird things, but what they did to us yesterday is unheard of. They configured a pizza site to our IP number. Pizza guys just uploaded their site and overwrote ours! Our domain suddenly became a pizza site! After contacting our hosting company I got this:
Due to a configuration error, your site was hooked up to the wrong IP. Please reupload it to the ip number below. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you.
They were hooked up to the wrong IP, not us, you moron! We've used that IP number for a couple of months now! After a couple of trouble tickets and a couple of unanswered questions, I decided to call them, but the customer support guy just put the phone down after I explained him who I am and why I call about. He didn't answer the next time I called. I am really upset now, and you be careful when choosing a host. I am not going to use their service anymore and I am not going to recommend them as I did in the past.
Wednesday, 01. May 2002
[12:00 am]
Reading local files in Netscape 6 and Mozilla.
GreyMagic Mozilla Disk Explorer didn't do anything on my Mozilla 0.9.9, but hitting the "sniff" button actually gave me the content of the "test.txt" file. Kind of scary.
