Archive for March, 2005
« Previous EntriesDOCTYPE And Browser Modes
Thursday, March 31st, 2005Modern browsers use “doctype sniffing” to distinguish older and newer versions of the (X)HTML languages. The proper formatting mode is selected according to the specified document type. The page is then formatted either in an obsolete, but more compatible way (non-standard, quirk mode) — or using modern standards (standard mode). A table at WellStyled shows [...]
A history of portable computers
Friday, March 25th, 2005MobilePC magazine has a fairly extensive history of portable computers, going all the way from the IBM Portable 5100 to last year’s OQO.Other links on computing history:www.thocp.net/www.alanturing.net/www.cbi.umn.edu/collectionswww.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/
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Google News removing AFP content
Friday, March 25th, 2005be careful what you ask for
A week or so ago, CNN and others were reporting that news agency Agence France Presse was sueing Google Inc., based on the fact that Google includes AFP’s photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission. The French news service is seeking damages ($USD17.5 M), plus an [...]
Categories in Blogger II
Thursday, March 24th, 2005Having implemented categories, I’m slowly migrating my older entries into categories (the original post hinted at two categories but that’s slowly growing). Migrating an individual entry means copying the entry from the original blogger ‘post-edit’ screen into a ‘post-create’ for the particular category blog I want it in (cut-and-paste from one browser window or [...]
Freedom for some – then deportation
Thursday, March 24th, 2005removal pending bridging visa
From The Age newspaper:A new visa for failed asylum seekers who had faced indefinite detention was described yesterday as a small step forward but a long way short of the end of mandatory detention.The “removal pending bridging visa” will be available to detainees who have exhausted all avenues of appeal but cannot [...]
Categories in Blogger
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005My blog is my Electric Monk. That’s one of the reasons I chose Blogger, because of its close relationship with google. I save any usefull tidbits I come across into my blog, and then the google robot comes by and indexes them for me. This enables me to search just my stuff [...]
Les Carlyon on Journalism
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005Why do we talk about everything but the words? The words are the only thing the readers judge us by.
A speech by Les Carlyon, Author of (amongst many things) the finest book on the Gallipoli campaign.The main troubles with journalism are sloppy writing and sloppy editing, advocacy masquerading as reporting, gossip masquerading as reporting, stories [...]
masking email address
Monday, March 21st, 2005HTML email cloaking
If you put an email address in raw text on the web, it will be harvested and become spam fodder. Masker is a java utility to generate an image with an email address. This page will generate a HTML encoded mailto link that is reasonably ’spambot’ proof. This page has both a script [...]
htedit htaccess and htpasswd
Monday, March 21st, 2005htEdit allows you create and maintain .htaccess and .htpasswd files to password protect web site directories and/or files. It creates and keep track database of created files to easy editing (change password, add or delete users). It is very useful to protect admin areas.
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Selling illegal access
Monday, March 21st, 2005aka contrabandwidth
Foreign Policy Magazine article about the international black market for Internet access that has arisen in many authoritarian countries who keep their populations offline. Black marketeers in cybercafes, universities, private homes, and elsewhere are exploiting loopholes to circumvent government filters and charge fees for access. It’s not just technological loopholes either, it includes corruption [...]
Simple MP3 Player for the Web
Monday, March 21st, 2005Build a Simple MP3 Player for Your Site has been extended to Build a Streaming MP3 Player.From the first link:The quickest way to add an MP3 link to a web page is to use the <a href=…> syntax mentioned above. But as noted, that basic text link gives your visitors an unpredictable experience—either blotting out [...]
Old PC Operating Systems
Sunday, March 20th, 2005Software doesn’t wear out
The Washington Post has an article on how aging operating systems are still widely used. The article states that “The research firm IDC estimates that of the roughly 514 million paid-for copies of Windows on desktops and laptops worldwide at the end of 2004, almost 21 percent were the aging Win 95, [...]
