While looking through my web server logs, I see a fair number of web spiders that are making a very bad assumption: only the http is linked from a web page. The obvious counter example is https:. A web spider needs to only follow links that are http://. You can’t simply assume if the first […]
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Can’t scroll over Google Ads?
Has anyone noticed that you can’t scroll over Google Ads? Is this new? If I’m on a web page that has some Google Adsense ads, and I scroll down the page using my mouse’s scroll wheel, the page stops scrolling if I happen to go over an ad. I have to move the mouse cursor […]
National Geographic Adventure magazine
I stumbled across this page: One Day at a Time on the Five-Million-Step Program. I read the article, but at the end of the page was told to read the rest I should buy the June/July (2004!) issue of the magazine. Nice. This is what I asked the editors at the magazine: I just stumbled […]
<head> has to be on its own line?
What’s the deal with the <head> command having to be on its own line on a web page? One of my older sites is busted in Mozilla, Firefox, and Safari. It only shows the page source code, until I move the head to its own line. Ugh. I thought whitespace was irrelevant.
D-link sucks
David vs. Goliath story of the day: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
My Webloc Archiving Script
I cleaned my Powerbook’s desktop off this morning. The script is now posted at: Making Webloc Archives. My script merely reads the .webloc files, extracts the url, grabs the site’s favicon if there is noe, then uploads the link to a web site.
Favorite Free Mac Software
Here is my list of my favorite free Mac software: Audacity Chicken of the VNC Galerie NetNewsWire Lite Chax
What’s in your menu bar?
I change the items in my menu bar every few months. As of March 8, 2006 this is what I had: From left to right: GizmoProject: VOIP client, $5 month for an incoming phone number, portable to any computer iKey: keyboard macros DeskTopple: hides my desktop’s icons (a bit better than Backdrop) NetMonitor: shows my […]
Internet Blog Serial Number
My IBSN (Internet Blog Serial Number) is 46-00-43-9745. Of course, I can’t tell if this is a serious undertaking, or a spoof, but the number itself is random. You can choose your own! And you can get a bar code too. Oooohhhh! Update: 2008-01-06 5:45pm: It’s a porn site now, so I removed the link. […]
Web Browser Usage
While cleaning my office, I found some ancient web server logs. I started playing with them and realized I could run a web browser chart to see how popular various web browsers really are. The site these logs are generated from is a small site that is not actively updated any longer. I don’t want […]