phil ringnalda

Go. Read.

I would not normally endorse a weblog so drowned in advertisements that one can scarcely find the text. At 1024×768, everything but the post date and half the title is below the fold. I take back my reservations, that’s a tsunami headed our way.

*thwapt!*

What is Fiddler?: Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Or, it’s an editable LiveHTTPHeaders for everything on your (Windows) computer.

Simulating the SXSW experience

Nice Titles in GreaseMonkey: just what I wanted from the start. I turned mine off here, so if you want them you’ll need to ‘monkey them back.

A WordPress plugin to convert named entities to numeric character references. Didn’t someone need exactly that?

Blogspot is hurting America. I glanced at the blo.gs recently updated on my way to something else today, and noticed a Blogspot-hosted blog that had pinged with a keyword-stuffed query string, so they don’t even have to script creation of a new site for each bit of targeting.

pb’s podcasting aha moment? Being able to subscribe to an NPR podcast. When Jim Kloss warned you not to try to imitate public radio because you can’t beat them at their own game? He’s often right that way.

Designed For Good, Used For Evil: not only is Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar a potential inducer of copyright infringement, now his User Agent Switcher is the favored tool of paid-for-popups defrauders.