Blogging the Meme

Over on Jogin (and elsewhere) there has been a lot of discussion of how to use headers. My take is that headers are a structural element, and we define the structure before we apply the layout to it. Thus, the H1 should always occur once on a page, and define the name/purpose of the page, [...]

In the current issue of SitePoint Tech Times (#90) Kevin Yank tells us about how websites can abuse our privacy by using css and some server side scripting to know when you have visited a particular, different, site. Its a clever, but technically simple, matter of using css to provide a script as a background-image [...]

Hmmm… interesting. It would seem a basic flaw in MT is that it doesnt display the most recent entry, but the most recent entry this month. Bit of a problem when one hasnt posted this month. OK, this may be a pathetic fix, but it does fix it. This month Mental note: 1st of the [...]

I have to jump on the bandwagon – Quicksilver appears to be brilliant for keyboard users (ie those of us who are less coordinated and find the keyboard more accurate than the mouse) My biggest problem with it is its install method: it picks up your bookmarks etc. Unfortunately the stuff I use *really* frequently [...]

Now this is something I’ve not seen before. I guess it was only a matter of time, and it seems that now its time has come. Infoworld (RSS) is including ads in their RSS feed. Just small text-based ones (thank god!), but they are there on some entries. I’m in two minds in this; on [...]

Dave has a 21″ monitor he picked up as a freebie because the green gun is shot. He booted into Windows XP tonight and lo and behold, teletubby land looked like a field of dirt. Very amusing

Does anyone else find they have problems with caching under Safari? I find the delay in getting the latest external style sheet absolutely intolerable – last week I updated a picture and was terribly confused when it wasnt changing on screen, until I realised… I was using Safari. Its enough to drive a girl Firefox, [...]