Archive for the 'random linkage' Category

Wonderchicken comes home to roost

Sunday, January 12th, 2003

Just in case you missed the news, Chris is back, and in fine form. (Also, I needed a link to one of his individual entry pages.)

Should have done this earlier today

Friday, January 3rd, 2003

Anita Rowland: Take out your checkbook and write the new year in the date area for every check there. By the time you’ve used them up, you’ll be used to writing “03” and you won’t have to correct or void any checks! Now what do I do about typing the date? It usually takes me […]

The bitter end

Tuesday, December 31st, 2002

RevJim: I guess I’ll start at the end.

Something is lost in translation

Tuesday, December 24th, 2002

“ Barm on its head come off when it gets surprised.” “It can be going to be a favorite of your beer lover father !?” indeed.

Wouldn’t you like to switch?

Monday, December 16th, 2002

Wouldn’t you like to switch to Mozilla, so I can use inline image data?

The aliens returneth, the aliens taketh away

Friday, December 6th, 2002

Reblogger returns, but where in the world is Michel Valdrighi?

So that’s what’s popular, eh?

Monday, November 11th, 2002

I’m a bit surprised at just how few of the top sites by PageRank I’ve actually visited in the last however-long my browser’s history currently is… Yahoo Google AltaVista Amazon Apache.org GNU (why? don’t remember) PHP MP3.com Wired Yahoo Groups Mozilla The Onion Blogger Maybe three or four others where I just go straight to […]

Easy MySQL in PHP

Friday, November 8th, 2002

Scott pointed to an article on PHP and Working with Databases (for the Lazy Sod), so although I’m very happy with the class I’m using for MySQL access now, I took a look. The author seems to be saying reasonable things: abstraction in the PEAR/ADOdb sense (abstracting away which database engine, while still requiring tons […]

An MT installation unfolding

Saturday, October 26th, 2002

Meg’s list of things to do with your extra hour tomorrow morning includes “Try to figure out how to install Moveable [sic] Type.” I discovered blogging through seeing one of her disturbing search request posts (and neveryoumind why I was there), and one of the things that appealed to me about Blogger was that I […]

Bookmark dump

Sunday, October 20th, 2002

Mozilla’s Link Prefetching – perfect for getting people whose internet use at work is monitored in trouble. Ian Davis’ Open Content Syndication format – I’ve bookmarked this four or five times: it’s past time to actually look at it. Eric Meyer on CSS: Tricking Browsers and Hiding Styles – it’s sad as can be, but […]