Slashdot | Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates, very nice. This will make moving accounts between servers much more painless.
WordPress Modifications
Photography Composition Articles Library
Photography Composition Articles Library. Hat tip: Donncha.
WordPress Easter Egg
Carthik breaks one of the WordPress easter eggs, which is really more of a developer’s shortcut tool.
Malice and Incompetence
Revised Ad Policy
If you have left a comment on this site before, you should no longer be seeing the Google ads.
HTTP 1.1 Testimonials
HTTP 1.1 Testimonials, from when the IETF and W3C worked together.
Image Toolbar Header
I’m doing some code cleanup around here, and I came to a line in my <head> that is soley to work around an Internet Explorer feature I don’t want on my site.
Here is the standard way to remove it:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
Since the http-equiv attribute is meant to be simply a document-level replacement for real HTTP headers, and I have the ability to send out real HTTP headers, I decided to try out removing this line and replacing it with this bit of PHP, which according to the spec is functionally equivilent:
<?php header ('imagetoolbar: no'); ?>
Looks funky, but according to the HTTP 1.1 specification user agents should ignore headers they don’t recognize, so there’s no harm. However in my testing I was disappointed (though not terribly surprised) to find that Internet Explorer did not respect the header. I have trimmed other parts of my markup quite a bit though, and I’m willing to sacrifice this one line.
Gallery: 7-11-2004
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Gallery: 7-10-2004
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Super-Efficient Image Rollovers
Super-Efficient Image Rollovers using javascript. This seems to be the JS predecessor to Pixy’s CSS-only fast rollovers.
Branded for life
Arabic
An Arabic WordPress blog. I have no idea on earth what it says though.
Contact Information
Tantek muses on contact information. One of my coding dreams has always been to sit down for a few months and write the perfect contact manager. I daydream about it sometimes and have a lot of the implementation worked out in my head. Imagine something like Plaxo, but distributed, not annoying, completely automatic, and with an infinitely flexible versioned backend. In fact, not like Plaxo at all.
More Googlebot Flailing
Now I’m seeing the Googlebot request /about/ pages relative to known blogs that don’t have any links to any /about/ URI. The last time the Googlebot flailed around like this it was fun to watch for a little bit and wonder what they had cooking in the labs, but then it got annoying. I don’t know if there are rules of bot etiquette, but requesting imagined unlinked resources while spidering can’t be a best practice.
There is of course one blog vendor who consistently has about pages at Now my question Google is: what should the rest of us do if we want our about pages indexed by this new system? Mine happens to be in the /about/ URIs, and that’s Typepad.about subdirectory of my blog, but what about people who have about.html or about-me.php? Should I set up a permanent redirect for every blog I have redirecting to the real about page?
(Note: That’s faux indignation. I don’t have any juicy conspiracy theories, and I’m not really that peeved, mostly I’m just curious what they’re up to. However juicy conspiracy theories are welcome in the comments. [As long as they don’t make fun of me for noticing these things.] )
UPDATE: It just requested a non-existent non-linked /contact/ URI.
UPDATE: It just requested a non-existent non-linked /stats/ URI.
DEVELOPING . . .
Ordered List
OrderedList.com v2.0, a very attractive site redesigns. I dig the curved navigation at the top. Good IA, good writing. Groovy motif. Reverse breadcrumbs. RSS and such a little funky though. Why isn’t this guy using WordPress? A blog to watch.
Gallery: 7-9-2004
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