A Guide to Semantic Markup
Aug 23rd
A very useful blog post, explaining semantic markup from a technical point of view. From a non-technical viewpoint it doesn't dwell overly on the key advantage - but if you don't read or understand (or care about) the rest of the article you should read… more »
Privacy flaw in IE and Firefox
Aug 23rd
If you're worried about websites knowing where else you've gone, then you need to make yourself aware of this. The technique is to put a bunch of links on your web page and then use a script to see if they trigger the specific style you've inserted for :… more »
StumbleUpon, Firefox, SuSE 10.1 and the Pinball theme
Aug 19th
Having got into StumbleUpon at work today, the whole random browsing thing was quite a fun way to waste an hour, I decided to get it setup on my laptop at home. I went to the site, clicked the 'Get StumbleUpon' link and installed the extension, when I r… more »
5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should)
Aug 16th
A very useful blog post, I'd never heard of the address tag or the q tag before. more »
Dual Core Issues
Aug 15th
Everything has not been so peachy in dual core processor land since my last post. Although it seemed to be working fine to start with, after a random amount of time suddenly the mouse pointer and keyboard would become very unresponsive - lagging behind… more »
Browser Re-size Bookmarklets
Aug 14th
Was doing some layout stuff today and needed to check a page in IE at 800x600. I know there's a developer toolbar add in for IE but I generally try to avoid installing too much extra cruft in that browser, so I created some bookmarklets to resize for me… more »
Dual Core Processors Rock!
Aug 5th
Today I took delivery of a shiny new ABit motherboard and a shiny new dual core AMD64 (and, incidentally, a new power supply and 2Gb of RAM). I got home from work at 9:00pm and now, just over four hours later, I've finally got everything working satisfa… more »