Why do exciting things happen when my server is unstable? According to my Mint stats, this site made it onto the home page of Tailrank for my previous post on CSS support in email programs. There was also a referral from the Alpha version of Measuremap (bought over by Google), which is still off-limits to …
Month: March 2006
… is being able to file my Income Tax on a Mac. Using Firefox. And doing it in 1 minute. I must qualify that this happened after several attempts to log in. First, using Firefox – when the system kept taking me back to the home page instead – then Safari, where nothing progressed, then …
My web host has informed me that the server CPU load hit 99.9% because of trackback spam sent to this website. If it continues tomorrow (which is likely), my account will be suspended indefinitely. I have to do a lot of things to fix it and back up all my data. And that of everyone …
This puts the icing on the cake – Someone looked at a Microsoft stylesheet and noticed a most amusing comment. See the original screen shot. So they’re human, after all. However, I just checked the stylesheet in question and it appears that all references to ‘stupid hack’ have been removed. Hush now. Technorati Tags: microsoft …
I’ve always wondered to what extent the different email programs support CSS. Well, here’s the answer. Thanks to Jim Barraud (aka van6ogh) who posted this most useful link in Ma.gnolia. The article’s pretty thorough – they even covered Lotus Notes! To quote, You can have a field day as long as you’re not sending to …
I was checking out the BusinessWeek Online feed using Rojo and saw this headline and blurb: What Will Google Use $2 Billion For? As if it doesn’t already mint money, Google’s raising $2.1 billion more in a new offering. You sure don’t need this kind of money to develop Web services, do you? So maybe …
This site (and other domains hosted on my account) went down a couple hours ago, due to our mt-tb.cgi file(s) being pummelled, presumably by spam. We’re investigating the source of the problem. The web host has warned that they won’t allow us to down the whole shared server again. So just in case you see …
The BBC has compiled a list of ’50 things to eat before you die’. How many have you eaten? I scored 41/50. Funny how some dishes are named specifically, but others are lumped together like Thai, Chinese, Greek and Mexican food. What else should have been included on this list? I’m thinking escargot and buah …
Pah. I tried re-installing Brandon Fuller’s MTValidator plugin and kept on wondering why it no longer worked on my site. It would say my pages were invalid when most of them were in fact, valid. Then I looked at the requirements list and discovered that I had an older version of Perl. Not assuming that’s …
I was too tired to report it earlier … but I won! More importantly, we raised over $3000 for the old folks’ home.