On July 17th this year, a chap called Marshall asked “Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser’s Address Bar?“. He was of course referring to the kind of average Internet user that opens up their browser, and types what they’re looking for straight into a Google homepage/the search bar built in to their browser. [...]
Aug 26th, 08 @ 19:08 · SEO · 21 Comments
Hi-dee-ho!
No thanks to the 150 or so spam messages in my inbox, here I am, online at last. Apparently I pissed someone off enough for them to want to sign my e-mail address up to 100+ newsletters. I’m guessing they didn’t count on the fact that in 3 clicks, I could run a [...]
Aug 19th, 08 @ 19:30 · Gaming, Hobbies, Internet, Rambling · 25 Comments
I’m sure I’ve covered this before, but screw it… I’m going to cover it again. Using your age as an excuse for being incapable of something is bullshit. Unless you’re coding at the age of 3, I don’t want to hear it. I cannot repeat enough: children today have access to the Internet at a [...]
Aug 13th, 08 @ 20:09 · Internet, Ranting · 80 Comments
When you’re ordering people to follow these badly written rules:
1. Don’t direct link. Seriously, don’t waiste my bandwidth, or yeah. If something has been direct linked, I will delete it without warning and change its location, that way you’ll lose the image.
2. Don’t steal, trade, etc. Don’t claim these as your own. Not joking!
3. Don’t [...]
Aug 11th, 08 @ 23:04 · Drama, Ranting, Scripts · 78 Comments
Tess has done a write-up in the same vein as my Handling the Critics post called Handling the Pants Awards. It’s cute, and I literally laughed out loud, but it also makes a few serious points. Of course, the people who should read it probably never will, but that’s irrelevant.
Incidentally, I’ve had a draft sat [...]
Jul 25th, 08 @ 12:35 · Blogging, Internet, Pants · 21 Comments
The floodgates opened at 4pm GMT for those looking to buy .me domains; GoDaddy in fact crawling to a halt shortly after rendering checkout a gruelling 20-25 minute process. Unfortunately it seems that all dictionary words (e.g. “code.me”) were taken. I’m not sure if these have been reserved for auction or taken the second registration [...]
Jul 17th, 08 @ 19:19 · Internet · 36 Comments
I’m currently being pounded by StumbleUpon users thumbs-up’ing my geek t-shirts page, so will finally see tonight whether WordPress is capable of filling the gaps that my custom blog system left wide open. Just to be on the safe-side, I’ve installed WP Super Cache, which was the primary reason for ditching the theme switcher and [...]
Jul 16th, 08 @ 20:00 · Internet, Updates · 9 Comments
When I first posted my theories on Frozen Midnight a year ago, I had no idea what kind of reaction it would get (from the company or its users). Little did I know that so many existing and ex-customers would come forward with their stories of outrageous fees and unnecessary charges. No less than 8 [...]
Jul 11th, 08 @ 17:32 · Internet · 14 Comments
I’ve currently got an ongoing project at work, part of which entails redeveloping a website and providing a news section. Given the functionality needed (not a lot) I would normally knock something together with PHP and MySQL, give it a basic admin panel and make do. This is totally sufficient, and would normally take maybe [...]
Jul 9th, 08 @ 18:11 · Internet, Scripts, Work · 36 Comments
How does one back out of a verbal contract made in jest? It’s not binding, right?
Jul 8th, 08 @ 21:52 · Internet · 39 Comments
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