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Don't fall victim to the 'Free Wi-Fi' scam

2007 Jan 26, 3:20I wondered how long it would take for these to appear. Maybe you don't pay money to use your neighbors WiFi connection but you do pay in information.PermalinkCommentsarticle wifi free security windows airport

Live Bookmarks for IE7!

2007 Jan 24, 5:32My new extension for IE7 named Feed Folder is now (more) available. Feed Folder is like Firefox's Live Bookmarks feature. You can view your subscribed IE7 feeds as a folder containing shortcuts to each of the feed's items. If you've got Windows XP and you like Feeds then use my extension with IE7. Do it now!PermalinkCommentsfeed-folder feed live-bookmarks ie7 technical project atom rss extension

Bookmarklets, Favelets and Snippets | Smashing Magazine

2007 Jan 23, 12:38Article on bookmarklets (javascript bookmarks) available on the web.PermalinkCommentsbookmarklets bookmark favorite web design article

How to Add a Favicon to your Site - QA @ W3C

2007 Jan 22, 9:42In my continued efforts to learn about random web things and implement them on my page, here's the W3C's document on favorite icons. Update: Well what they said to do sure doesn't work in IE =)PermalinkCommentsfavicon w3c standards web icon html howto favorite

101 Free Games 2007 - The Best Free Games on the Web! from 1UP.com

2007 Jan 22, 7:14List of free and notable games for Windows. Including such things as the Airport Security game and 'I'm O.K.' the game built for Jack Thompson.PermalinkCommentsgames free windows download videogames

Airport Security (Persuasive Games - The Arcade Wire)

2007 Jan 22, 1:42Flash game in which you are airport security and must ensure no restricted materials are let through based on ever changing rules. More commentary than game. Who says games can't be art?PermalinkCommentspolitics games security flash game airport

Moved to Server-Side Scripting

2007 Jan 19, 9:15I've moved my homepage to server-side scripting. Previously I've mentioned that I was using client side scripting to interpret and sort my livejournal and delicious entries together. Now I'm using PHP and XSLTs to process and sort my livejournal, delicious, flickr, and librarything entries. See my homepage for the finished result.
LibraryThing is pretty cool despite being pretty niche. Its like flickr but for books. I display a random sampling of the covers of books I have listed in librarything on my page. I've also hooked the display of the covers of my book up to the corner image. Now when you hover over the cover of a book a bigger picture of its cover appears in the corner of the webpage. Also, flickr entries in the main section how have the same on hover behavior.
This may not be the best use of my time, but its still fun.PermalinkCommentslibrarything xslt delicious homepage flickr technical php livejournal script

Abusing Amazon images

2007 Jan 17, 2:08Learn the format of URIs that amazon uses for product images. Lots of neat things available via the URI such as drop shadow, rotation, and "XX% Off!" bullets.PermalinkCommentsamazon images hack howto article blog development reference uri

xkcd

2006 Dec 28, 2:09A humorous nerdy webcomic.PermalinkCommentscomics humor comic math science nerd daily language

Microsoft Office Live Signup

2006 Dec 20, 5:53Get a free website (including free domain) through Office Live Beta!PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft office office-live beta free website webpage domain dns

Theater of the Absurd at the T.S.A. - New York Times

2006 Dec 19, 4:37Article about security theatre at the airport. “Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them.”PermalinkCommentsairport security airplane TSA new-york-times article bruce-schneier

John Hodgman's Book "The Areas of My Expertise" For Free In iTunes

2006 Dec 19, 1:41John Hodgman (Daily Show correspondant and The PC in the Mac commercials among other things) has his book available for free as an audiobook on iTunes.PermalinkCommentshumor john-hodgman itunes download free audio audiobook book books

Main Page - NSIS

2006 Dec 13, 10:47This is Nullsoft's free tool for generating installers. Its easy to use and does all of the things I want an installer to do.PermalinkCommentsnullsoft development installer install windows tool tools free programming script software

My New IE Blog Entry

2006 Dec 6, 6:18I got another blog entry on the IE Blog! I wrote about file URIs in IE. Lots of fun right? Woo for file URIs! I added the post to del.icio.us and saw that it had already been added 6 times previous. This compared to my previous IE Blog post which was added to del.icio.us a total of 1 time(s) by y.t. I guess people are more interested in blog posts that have 'URI' in the title than they are about blog posts whose title references Dijkstra. Coming soon (or later) to the IE Blog: a post on international mailto URIs. Hooray!PermalinkCommentsblog ie7 file uri delicious

MailTo Syntax

2006 Dec 5, 1:00Examples of mailto URIs including the other often forgot parameters.PermalinkCommentsmailto email web tutorial example uri

Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet

2006 Dec 5, 12:27This post has a bunch of links to the various new WPF offerings including Jolt which is WPF on the go available as a control for website developers.PermalinkCommentsblog wpf jolt wpf-e microsoft api programming free

Encode-O-Matic Update

2006 Dec 3, 12:28I've updated Encode-O-Matic again. This is a tool I'm working on to convert between various Internet related encodings such as character sets, HTML encoding, URI encoding, base64, and IDN. In this update I've put it all into an installer. I'm using Nullsoft's installer generator to produce the installer. I've added a Base Conversion converter to convert between arbitrary bases and a Reverse converter that reverses the input by character, byte, or strings with arbitrary delimiters.PermalinkCommentsinstaller encodeomatic project charset nullsoft encoding

microformats

2006 Nov 28, 5:23A quick-fire round up of what’s happened in the microformats world this week; new implementations, major mailing list discussions and microformat-related discussion from the web at large.PermalinkCommentsmicroformats web2.0 semanticweb reference monthly xhtml html blog

GRDDL Primer

2006 Nov 28, 3:24GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. It is a technique for obtaining RDF data from XML documents and in particular XHTML pages. Authors may explicitly associate documents with transformation algorithms, typicPermalinkCommentsreference w3c web xml rdf metadata grddl semanticweb

Retrieving Data Using Script

2006 Nov 27, 3:09This topic includes an example of how to write a script that obtains data through Microsoft Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) either synchronously or asynchronously. The concepts demonstrated in this example provide the basis for writing client or middle-tiPermalinkCommentsmsdn development programming reference microsoft http javascript script
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