Agonizingly slow redesign in process…
Two write ups about hacking AIM. We did this at Bowdoin a long time ago—installed an IM bot. Today it makes more sense to tie in the sports scores, news headlines, and dining menus into IM than ever before.
http://battellemedia.com/archives/002176.php
http://www.thensr.com/article.asp?ID=29
This is only in one category, Linkspam, the category I’m trying to exclude. I get frustrated with WordPress—the developers crow on about its “elegance” but it seems sloppy to me.
So far my old template code broke which seperated out categories on the front page.
The suggested template code query_posts does not seem to filter out posts [...]
Photo Matt » About.com switching to WordPress (WP)
This is huge. When I learned that About.com used MovableType (MT) for their CMS it was ammo for using MT more around our site to allow for easy content updating. The differences between the two are enormous and I’ll still use MT where I want the logic of [...]
Google and the Meta Description Tag – Update
Here is a write up about an experiment to peek into the Google algorithm with regard to meta-description tags in web pages. It’s a good resource.
Speaking of meta data, why doesn’t this place date their content? I can’t stand not knowing when the content was published. It lowers [...]
Rutgers Alumni Relations Newsletter
A very clean, simple alumni newsletter. We could go here, but I’d probably make it look nicer.
Bill Buxton Home Page
Interesting looking person at MSFT Research who has some nice recent works to read about UI and Experience Design…
Video Games – Panogames is the first largest source for games panoramic screenshots PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, 360Xbox, GameCube, PSP, DS, GBA, PS2, PS3, PlayStation 3, video game news, reviews.
This is a very neat idea—people have created large panoramic views using QTVR for video games. Great way to compare game details and see how great [...]
I haven’t measured the effectiveness of PFF in my life—it doesn’t display very nicely in my FF 1.5 for some reason. Blame it on OS X? I dunno but the editor is wacky in this browser.
I went extension happy and am wondering how this is effecting FF’s performance. Is it increasing FF’s CPU cylces? All [...]
Free Website Templates, Free Photoshop Web Templates
This is insane nuttiness… I wonder if they make enough money from adverts?
VT’s Tech Blog – A few XML & PHP Tutorials
I dunno if these are useful to look at.
Minor Tweaks: CONSUMER E-MAIL Archives
A guy contacts companies about their products and posts the replies. Nothing harsh, just fun.
MildMannered Industries Download
I loved the syncing that .Mac gave me, but I thought the overall value was slim for my $100.00 and canceled the subscription.
This application promises to fill the void and provide Mac to Mac syncing without .Mac.
That Google is the most popular search engine is well known… just look at your weblogs for incoming referrers.
They have published the 2005 Zetgeist list and it’s a fascinating snapshot of data culled from what is popular in search terms and when.
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
Note that Myspace is the #1 gainer—it’s a free social blogging [...]