Archive for the 'blogging tech' Category

Links, votes, and Ads by Google

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

AdSense may not make much sense if your ads end up on your enemies weblogs, where their readers will click them just to give your money to a blogger who hates you.

Underscores are bad, mmkay?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2004

If you value your precioussssss PageRank, use dashes rather than underscores in file and directory names.

Doing your own Technorati links

Wednesday, April 21st, 2004

Rather than link your every post to Technorati, why don’t the interested people just save themselves a Technorati bookmarklet that shows the cosmos for the current page in their browser?

Brilliant forensic work

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 23, type out sentence 5, then ask yourself why on earth you just did that.

What are you blogging for?

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

For me, it’s not the numbers, it’s the numbers who show that they read, and understood, whether or not they agree. It’s not my pulpit, you’re not my audience; it’s a message board where only I get to start threads.

Better book links

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

I don’t actually have anything against linking to Amazon while talking about a book, but it’s not always exactly what I want. If other people want to try to get a few cents as an Associate, that’s fine by me, but the totals I’ve heard people talking about don’t make it sound like it’s really […]

Getting around IE’s MIME type mangling

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

You can defeat Internet Explorer’s refusal to believe that your text/plain is text/plain, as long as you can avoid using an angle bracket in the first 256 bytes.

HTML *is* code

Monday, April 5th, 2004

Wherein I rip into a stranger despite him seeming to be a nice enough guy, simply because his HTML offends me.

Now I have two problems

Sunday, April 4th, 2004

I want to be able to allow HTML in comments, but also autolink naked URLs. I know, I’ll use a regex! Oh…

Mark Paschal’s new bag

Friday, April 2nd, 2004

marcpasc + sixapart, sitting in a tree…