Scribbled on November 28th, 2007 - filed under Around The Web.
Excerpt:
Please, guys: USE THE HTML ENTITY WHEN USING ‘&’ IN URIs!
I found this being used in the wrong way within the code of several tools like e.g. the Flickr.com bagde, the ShareThis button and (a few minutes ago) within the Digg.com widget code, and I can’t stand it anymore.
Please, guys: if you provide e.g. a [...]
Scribbled on November 22nd, 2007 - filed under Around The Web.
Excerpt:
[OK, somehow, I can't get this damn flash video embedded - damn it!]
At the bottom of this article on the Discovery Channel website, I found a video about flies that can decapitate fire ants. You can watch the video (that I failed to embed) here.
This fly called Pseudacteon (more images here) injects its eggs into [...]
Scribbled on November 21st, 2007 - filed under Fun Stuff.
Excerpt:
While I was reading some articles on digg.com, I happened to find this nice story where a small kid with a Zombie-like facepaint is being interviewed by a KGW reporter, answering with the now quite famous words “I like turtles”.
–> www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
Scribbled on November 19th, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
Excerpt:
OK, I admit, there might be some people out there who think that I am doing nothing else but writing about WordPress plugins - or better: that I am installing plugins over plugins over plugins just to have something to write about on my blog.
Hm, that might even be true… but I don’t mind.
Do you?
If [...]
Scribbled on November 19th, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
Excerpt:
You know how hard it is to keep track of each and every possible plugin version change - why not make it simple? It just requires one more plugin to be installed - and from that moment on, you will have a complete overview if the plugins you use are up to date.
OK, one thing [...]
Scribbled on November 16th, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
Excerpt:
I stumbled upon ShareThis.com accidently on a blog when I was kind of randomly surfing the web, looking for blog designs. The “ShareThis” button really caught my attention: one click on the button opens a new container with several social bookmarking services where you can add the URL of the current post you view. You [...]
Scribbled on November 15th, 2007 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
Excerpt:
[This was a page before it became a post.]
On November 1st, 2007, NaNoWriMo 2007 has started.
Michael asked me to participate, so there MIGHT be a story here soon.
Again… there MIGHT be!
[Update from 2007-11-11]
I guess I have to disappoint Michael, because I think I will not have the time to write a story… AGAIN!
[Update [...]
Scribbled on November 15th, 2007 - filed under Firefox/Thunderbird.
Excerpt:
From the author’s website (quoting):
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors. (end of quote)
“Dust-Me Selectors” for Firefox:
www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/
[Update from 2008-06-24]
With FF3 out, a new version of this addon is available - please see this post.
Scribbled on November 15th, 2007 - filed under Firefox/Thunderbird.
Excerpt:
Quoting from the website:
PDF Download solves the problems everyone has about handling PDF files with Firefox. This extension, every time you click on a link, checks if the target is a pdf file and in this case let you choose what you want to do (…) (end of quote)
Note: You still need an external viewer [...]
Scribbled on November 15th, 2007 - filed under Around The Web.
Excerpt:
I finally found a freeware to compare two files - which is helpful if you need to track down the differences one has made e.g. in a template or plugin file. Haven’t tried the program yet, but I am full of hope that it does what I need it to do.
Official website:
www.diffdaff.com [en] / www.diffdaff.de [...]
