Category Archives: Geek

New Feature: Stability

Site’s fixed. Comment away.

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The ABBR Tag

A couple of months ago, I had written an entry entitled The Acronym Tag, which was a brief discussion on a standard, if decidedly underemployed, HTML tag. Following the discussion, I had used a little stylesheet trick to make more … Continue reading

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Site Not Cooperating

FYI, the site is doing that weird thing where it won’t rebuild pages. Ugh. Comments will probably not work for a little while. Update: Okay, I’ve resolved the issue for now. The problem was an apparant issue with the use … Continue reading

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PHP Juice

As Jai noted, I’ve switched the site over to PHP. That’s not the only thing I got done today. Mark Pilgrim recently wrote another reminder that gzip-compressing web pages can save you some serious bandwidth. Unfortunately, this requires some magic … Continue reading

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Our Templates

In part because they’ll make a great backup the next time I accidentally overwrite my Individual Archive Template with my Default Search Template in the middle of the night, but mostly because I’m all about open source: the index and … Continue reading

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Sad Day in Mozillaville

Just when Mozilla gets itself a not-for-profit foundation, AOL drops the Netscape brand and lays off their entire Gecko staff.

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Mozilla Bookmark Hackery

A recent discussion about managing internet browsing (and information overload in general) got me playing around with Mozilla bookmarks. I discovered that, if you’re running Mozilla Firebird, you can have your bookmarks show up in your browsing window rather than … Continue reading

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RSS Distillation

Chad Dickerson: RSS Killed the Infoglut Star. At last, a way to manage the Internet information overload. Ha! Give it a few months, Chad, and you’ll be subscribing to as many voices as you were visiting web sites! Has anyone … Continue reading

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CSS Column Hack

Okay, as far as I can figure out from this, any time you have an position: relative; outer element that wraps a position: absolute; inner element, then that inner element should find its offset relative to the outer element. Or … Continue reading

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Good News, Bad News

Good News: I was able to create a site menu using an unordered list with the great help of this column at A List Apart. Right now there’s a whopping two items, but plenty of room for expansion. Bad News: … Continue reading

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