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Archive, March 2003
Monday, 31. March 2003
CSS playground
[11:02 pm]
A Study of Regular Polygons - Stylesheets fun.
Sunday, 30. March 2003
We want peace
[11:55 pm]
"We want peace", by Lenny Kravitz and Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi Pop Star.
Friday, 28. March 2003
SARS
[11:45 am]
A virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is striking Ontario and the city of Toronto. Scary, very scary.
Wednesday, 26. March 2003
Workaholics
[11:58 pm]
We came to work at 8:50 am, and left at 12:11 am. My absolute record!
Luckly, we get paid hourly.
Monday, 24. March 2003
Photoshop Favorites
[10:06 pm]
Wow, how did I overlook "Photoshop Favorites"? This little thing can be very useful when opening files in Photoshop. Simply navigate to your favorite folder, click on the folder icon (picture bellow) and select "Add Favorite". The folder you navigated to, will be saved in your favorite button's menu. Real time saver!
Just discovered a neat and free application, EyeDropper 3.0. Read the technical characteristics in case you are interested.
Sunday, 23. March 2003
All this spam
[09:59 pm]
Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six Month Report. Very interesting findings.
Friday, 21. March 2003
ESPN redesign
[08:49 pm]
An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN, some insight into ESPN's recent public redesign efforts.
Cre@teOnline is bowing out.
I liked the magazine, found it too expensive though.
Thursday, 20. March 2003
Cool quote
[07:15 pm]
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war.
Tuesday, 18. March 2003
Profile of a computer virus writer
[06:13 pm]
Computer Virus Writers Mostly Obsessed Males
Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged 14 to 34. Capable of sowing chaos worldwide. That is the profile of the average computer-virus writer, an anti-virus expert said on Tuesday.
Monday, 17. March 2003
Evolt down?
[08:47 pm]
What happened to evolt.org? It has been down for two days or at least I wasn't able to access it.
14° Celsius in Toronto. It looks like, a long lasting winter is over.
Sunday, 16. March 2003
Redesign of the W3C homepage
[09:49 am]
Wthremix is a design challenge for coders, and a coding challenge for designers. Here's the idea: create a redesign of the W3C homepage. Design an intuitive layout and navigation, organize the content with the user in mind, and create an aesthetic which reflects the importance and influence of the institution. It is too late to jump in, the awards will be announced on March 17th, but it is never too late to take a look at interesting entries.
Google Dance - The Index Update of the Google Search Engine
Everything you wanted to know about Google Dance, but was afraid to ask.
Friday, 14. March 2003
Funny referrer time again
[10:11 pm]
Google: best permanent penis enlarger in the whole world
It always feels good to be on the first place!
Mozilla 1.3 released.
Mozilla Spam filtering, rich text editing controls, and image auto sizing are some of the interesting new additions to Mozilla browser.
Thursday, 13. March 2003
Arghhh this spam
[04:16 pm]
I just received a spam email. They offer me a professional website for a limited budget. Well, I don't know why they chose me, particularly because I do the same thing for a living, (and often for limited budget).
Here are some of the package features they offer:
- A scrolling java window to display news articles or related information.
- Free submission of the web site to the top 40 search engines to ensure search capabilities.
- Current "Date" displayed along with custom "Drop Down" navigation menu.
- Custom rollover images for navigation.
Which one do you like the best? I think "current date combined with the custom drop down navigation" feature is pretty amazing.
Tuesday, 11. March 2003
Sizer
[11:05 am]
Sizer is a useful tool I downloaded a few years ago, kept on my hard drive, and forgot where I found it originally. Now I see it improved. I love these little applications that make your everyday easier.
Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots for documentation, using Sizer allows you to easily maintain the same window size across screen grabs.
Sunday, 09. March 2003
Rogers
[07:53 pm]
My ISP cut our line by mistake and left us without internet connection until tomorrow evening. I don't think they realize what drugs for a drag addict means.
Friday, 07. March 2003
Fine tuning
[11:45 pm]
I am playing around with my stylesheets as we speak. If you notice something weird, don't worry, it's me.
Thursday, 06. March 2003
Block spambots
[12:19 pm]
How to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots to go to hell.
Link title says it all. Quite a few spambots and spybots eat my bandwidth on a regular basis. Time to stop them.
Pancake physics to cut batter splatter
The angular velocity of the object equals the square root of Pi, times the gravity divided by the distance the pancake is from the elbow times four - that is how to get the pancake back in the pan.
Wednesday, 05. March 2003
Google Content-Targeted Advertising
[03:38 pm]
Google Content-Targeted Advertising is surely an excellent idea from the business perspective, but it scares me a bit. Will sites that serve Google content-targeted ads get higher ranking? Search Engine Watch provides us with a very good article about this.
Tuesday, 04. March 2003
Regular Expressions
[11:07 pm]
I spent about 5 hours today studying regular expressions. I don't think I know more now.
[via kurcula.com]Cumulative security patch for Macromedia Flash Player (6,0,79,0), which you can download on the Macromedia player download center.
Monday, 03. March 2003
MediaCharger and Movienetworks
[08:32 pm]
Here is what I had to go through after I let my niece play on my computer. Such an annoying thing offering me to gamble online, visit adult sites, and so on. I hope it is gone now!
While struggling with the spyware mentioned above, I downloaded and installed SpyBot Search & Destroy program. It seems to be very good!
Saturday, 01. March 2003
Acrophobia
[07:55 pm]
