Archive for May, 2006

Being news reader friendly

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Andrew Grumet makes an interesting point about using CSS in blog posts. I often find myself make style declarations inline when I want to position images etc in my blog posts. I like his idea.
On a related theme, I often see broken images when viewing RSS feeds in news readers — once upon a time […]

Blog list

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

For no other reason other than to fill in 5 minutes while I take a break from what I was doing, I thought I’d list the RSS feeds that are curently in my toolbar:

Joel On Software
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
Microsoft Team RSS Blog
Paul Graham: Essays
Microsoft Research News and Headlines
Marc’s Voice
Official Google Blog
El Blog de Google México
Tim Berners […]

Windows Live Mail not so live anymore

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I just logged in to Hotmail — or as Microsoft now calls it, Windows Live Mail — to check what spams I have received recently and I got this error.
Yet one more reason why I own a Mac.

Amazon web services

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Last night I attended a talk given by Jeff Barr, Amazon’s web service evangelist. He talked mostly about Amazon’s web service offerings, as you would expect from a web services evangelist, such as the Mechanical Turk, Alexa and S3, which stands for simple storage service — I had wondered what it meant.
He gave several examples […]

One year old

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Not me! This blog. It is exactly one year ago today that I made my first post on this blog.
As for what’s next, I shall continue in a similar vane posting random thoughts and ramblings about nothing in particular. Enjoy!

Profanity is for people who don’t know the words

Friday, May 12th, 2006

While doing a search on Google for the word fuckwit I was amused to find out what came top of the list. I believe this is a good example of a Google bomb.
If you are unsure what the word fuckwit means, then check out the definition.
By the way, the title of this post was something […]

Map upgrade

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I have just completed the upgrade of my map application to use version 2 of the Google Maps API. I had a few issues but there doesn’t appear to be any problems now. Permalinks generated previously should still work. Unlike Windows Vista I decided to maintain backwards compatibility!
In the new API Google provide a […]

Comment spam

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Well I appear to have the comment spam situation under control. I installed Spam Karma 2 as Miles suggested and so far so good. I am still getting comment spams but they all appear to be getting caught. I refuse to turn comments off or to make people register as I think this discourages people […]