Have problems with your dns server? use google's! Google has a public dns for this purpose. “8.8.8.8” and “8.8.4.4”. See: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/.
Discovered a FireFox extension that lets you spell check the window (whole window, not just inside input text boxes). This is useful when you are developing a website. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11259/.
Complete rewrite: CSS1 And CSS2 Differences.
Discovered the “<kbd>” tag. It's similar to the “i”, “b”, “strong”, tags, but for keyboard input. It is also supported in html5. I now used it to markup keyboard keys, e.g. “Ctrl+x”.
I used to use:
<span class="key">Ctrl</span>
But that's more verbose. Now i use emacs to make the change on about 100 files on my site. (See: Emacs Interactively Find and Replace String Patterns on Multiple Files)
The css i use is this:
kbd {border:solid 1px #c2c2c2;background-color:#f0f0f0; padding-left:.3ex;padding-right:.3ex;font-family:monospace}
CSS “first-letter” and “first-line” Example (tutorial)
CSS Example: How to use “:before” and “:after” pseudo-elements.
How to Create and Update a Sitewide Logo (Favicon).
How to Enable HTTP Server gzip Compression.
Added another example to: How to Embed Video with Valid HTML.
Intro to Video Streaming and Video Audio Codecs (exposition)
Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code (advice)
Hyperlinks and Underline (commentary and tips)
URL Percent Encoding and Unicode.
Popular Money Making Websites (survey; seo; web monetization)
I noticed today my webhosting company truncates IP address in the weekly weblog.
For example, in daily log, a entry would look like this:
196.12.236.55 - - [17/Apr/2010:00:00:00 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 217 www.xahlee.org "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Creative ZENcast v2.01.01" "-"
But when they generate the weekly log by combining the past 7 daily logs, they replace the last part of ip address by “x”, so it looks like “196.12.236.x”.
Not sure why they are doing that. It wasn't so before. My webhoster is 1and1.com.
Anyone knows why? it's not by law is it?
Discovered that Wolfram Alpha generates a link graph for your site. See for example: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=xahlee.org.
This is quite useful when you need to know quickly a site's link topology. Am pretty sure there are better sites that generates a better link graph. If you know, please let me know.
Google's sidewiki feature in their browser toolbar pisses off a lot people, including me... Google Sidewiki Block.
Just discovered, that someone tried to trademark the term “SEO”. It appears, a chick named Rhea Drysdale stopped him, together with USD$17 k out of her pocket. See her blog on this incidence: 〈SEO Trademark Registration Terminated〉 (2010-03-15), by Rhea Drysdale. Source.
I think that's a commendable deed.