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Archive, December 2003
Wednesday, 31. December 2003
Happy New 2004 everybody!
[03:35 am]
Have a good party and don't drink too much! Archive will soon get another column. Yaaay!
Sunday, 28. December 2003
Cheers!
[02:44 pm]
This is a busy time of the year, Christmas, Sofia's birthday (today), New Year's Eve, Christmas again . . . One of my New Year's resolutions is to eat less, but today we will go to Mandarin and eat until we explode.
Thursday, 25. December 2003
Odd Advertising
[08:34 am]
10 Ads America Won't See
Mr. Kipling's Virgin Birth and Other Not-for-the-USA Fare.
Some of these are really pretty cool, but I suggest skipping #3, it is truly disgusting.
Wednesday, 24. December 2003
Fine sculpturing
[07:10 pm]
Livio De Marchi, one of the world's finest wood sculptors shows his awesome masterworks. It looks like this guy carved pretty much everything that exists, even his own house.
Send a card to your favorites
[07:05 pm]
Neat stuff, Web Design PostcardsLook through these postcards for coding, design and content tips for your own sites, and if one of the sites you visit regularly doesn't measure up, why not show them you care by emailing them the URL of an applicable card?
Tuesday, 23. December 2003
Am I addicted?
[09:34 pm]
My current online status at FICS
Total time online: 37 days, 18 hrs, 20 mins
% of life online: 2.2 (since Sat Mar 20, 13:58 PST 1999)
Monday, 22. December 2003
The best of British blogging
[07:22 pm]
The Guardian's second British blog awards found the country's webloggers in fine form, with last year's high standards maintained. Simon Waldman, chair of the judges, hands out the accolades.
Sunday, 21. December 2003
Overweight Travel Sites
[08:26 pm]
Optimization Week compares the homepages of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity for speed and accessibility. I was working for the travel industry a while ago and find this study especially interesting. We always tried to compete with the sites above but were mostly unsuccessful in our attempts.
Saturday, 20. December 2003
World's Tallest Digital Building
[08:09 am]
A nifty creation I haven't seen before. A very impressive work that demonstrates the results of the teamwork. [via Asylum]
Friday, 19. December 2003
Ho ho ho
[07:35 pm]
I am too lazy (or too busy with other things) for a CSS Christmas skin but I did something else for the decoration. Anybody noticed the Santa hat?
Wednesday, 17. December 2003
Fly Like a Bird
[11:35 pm]
December 17, 2003 marks the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first successful airplane flight. I don't know about the brothers, but I still feel kind of panicky when boarding a plane. We will probably fly to Europe next year, and I am scared to death already. I mean, if I was meant to fly, I would have been born with a beak, right? There is a website I found the other day and keep in my favorites, which helps a bit to those like me. Huh.
Tuesday, 16. December 2003
How I love this country
[08:37 pm]
Canada deems P2P downloading legal Downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, although uploading files is not, Canadian copyright regulators said in a ruling released Friday.
Monday, 15. December 2003
Changes to Functionality in Windows XP SP 2
[10:41 pm]
Microsoft provides a detailed document that focuses on the changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its implication for developers. Happy reading!
Sunday, 14. December 2003
Evolt's B'day
[12:37 pm]
Evolt.org celebrates its fifth birthday today. Congrats!
Thursday, 11. December 2003
Playboy centerfolds
[11:44 pm]
Putting all playboy centerfolds of a whole decade into one image produces some very interesting results. I would say, the link is work safe.
Tuesday, 09. December 2003
Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability
[08:42 pm]
Yet another vulnerability in MSIE There is a flaw in the way that Internet Explorer displays URLs in the address bar. By opening a specially crafted URL an attacker can open a page that appears to be from a different domain from the current location.
You can see this vulnerability in action if you use IE6. Other browsers, of course, will show the right address in the address bar, not only www.microsoft.com.
Monday, 08. December 2003
Through the eyes of Konqueror
[11:45 pm]
A few days ago we saw a website called Through the eyes of a Mac. Now, there is a similar free service in case you'd like to get a Konqueror web browser screencap.
Sunday, 07. December 2003
ALT tag
[12:29 am]
Simon Willison's article Writing good ALT text is a good guideline for proper use of ALT tags. Writing alt text is easy, but writing it well enough for it to be a help rather than a hindrance can take some thought.
I also agree that the best tool for ALT tag testings is the text only browser Lynx.
Friday, 05. December 2003
Mysql-front is back
[07:55 pm]
As it looks like MySql-Front is back with the new version 3.0 (still beta). This beautiful program is still absolutely free.
Wednesday, 03. December 2003
MS Word and rand() function
[11:42 pm]
It looks like an Easter egg, but it is only a not-well documented feature of MS Word. If you would like to insert a dummy text in to a document using MS Word, you can do so by typing =rand() and pressing ENTER. You can also pass variables to the rand() function, rand(p,s), where p is the number of paragraphs and s is the number of sentences that you want to appear in each paragraph. Neat, eh?
Tuesday, 02. December 2003
Entity-encoding doesn't work against spammers
[11:02 pm]
Popular Spam Protection Technique Doesn't WorkSpammers obtain their list of victims primarily by harvesting web pages. They use special address extraction software that will spider a site and extract all of the email addresses off its web pages. Entity encoded address obfuscation is one technique to protect your web pages against harvesting. It's popular and easy to do. Unfortunately, it doesn't work
It is a JavaScript solution, but I like Hiveware's Enkoder Form for this purpose.
