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October 31, 2001
This site was inaccessible for several hours this morning, not because my servers flaked out again (oh, like that ever happens anyway …), but because of an indeterminate router glitch at my service provider’s head end. I think that this may be the first time in the six odd months that I’ve had a dedicated … More
April 26, 2001
April 17, 2001
Praise the soul of Jon Postel, I think we’re alive and kicking again. For those of you just tuning in again after the move, I have been struggling in an attempt to get the world to understand just where in heck my new server is. After a week’s worth of Network Solutions domain records getting … More
March 8, 2001
Take Back The Net is a self-proclaimed “crusade” aimed specifically at netizens (Argh … I am really beginning to detest that word) encouraging them to purchase goods online is a bit like trying to convince Napster users to download music. “Fueled by a lack of confidence, our economy is slipping into recession. If this trend … More
January 31, 2001
Somewhere around four years ago, before I moved this site onto the Quadra 950 that’s running the show right now, I used MacHTTP on a cute little IIcx with an infinitesimal 8MB of memory. MacHTTP was the original web server software for the Mac and after a six year hiatus, it seems to have resurfaced … More
December 29, 2000
Useful “Page Not Found” Error Pages If you’re even the slightest bit concerned about the experience viewers have when visiting your humble excuse for a site, take heed. The last thing some poor, unsuspecting sod should ever see is a 404 message. No matter how careful you’ve been to redirect obsolete pages, support ancient, if … More
November 1, 2000
Need a pick me up? Sometimes there is nothing better than just kicking back and relaxing with an entertaining spam report auto-response message. Read on. Good day! Thank you for mailing us. If you are the informer of this spam mail, we’d like to apologize first for all the trouble you have encountered, and thank … More
October 30, 2000
From press release to complete dot com flameout. Elapsed time: two days. Thanks Jon
May 7, 2000
Last week I asked about the potential ethics and guidelines behind going back into your weblog to edit or tweak previous postings. I didn’t really have a huge issue with the point, I just felt guilty doing it sometimes. Here are a couple of views on the matter: Subject: ethics or guidelines for weblogs? Date: … More
April 10, 2000
Alright, enough about me and more relating to Zeldman. The Web Standards Project issued a press release today lambasting Microsoft for dropping support for key W3C standards in Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows, while finally getting reasonable support for the same standards wedged into the just released IE 5.0 for Mac. It’s time to tell … More