So the social media madness continues. During a bout of boredom I decided to go take a peek at how all my RSS feeds are doing. I was not really surprised to find that the one site that was supposed to be updating is down (RSS2Twitter) and that the other just does not do any [...]
The Herald reported this morning that a vehicle marked with a Google Maps sign and a large metal frame with camera mounted on it’s roof has been spotted driving around Port Elizabeth. Google has been creating panoramic imagery taken at street level of major cities around the world. So far more than 100 metropolitan areas [...]
All over the world residents, companies and governments are turning out their lights to highlight the threat of climate change. For 1 hour on Saturday, 28 March 2009, starting at 8:30pm, the world will turn out the lights. Watch the planet go dark one time zone at a time as satellite pictures capture the beauty [...]
For a long time now I have been trying to get concrete evidence on the whole dynamic vs. static URL issue. Some webmasters say, you absolutely have to have static URL’s for good ranking in Google, while others say, it is a thing of the past. Well at last I have found that concrete evidence [...]
So I lost my hard drive the other day. Yes the one with all my backups on! That one, that very one. So after going through all the motions and trying all kinds of things, I found this article on Google about freezing your hard drive. The story goes, the chips on the circuit board [...]
After having moved to St Francis recently I thought it a good idea to create a community website. There aren’t really many of them around on the web so I’m kind of trying to jump the gun. St Francis is situated on the Garden Route in Eastern Cape, South Africa.I’ve Googled for St Francis Web [...]
As a web developer we all know that sticking mailto: links on a site without any protection is a big no-no, because of spam harvesters. Unfortunately from time to time you get clients that insist on this. I’ve noticed that some web developers insert the mailto: link by converting the whole link to htmlentities. I [...]
Just came back from watching The Golden Compass. I’m very much one for fantasy and thought this movie to be quite excellent. Apparently it’s part of a trilogy written by author Philip Pullman. The movie is directed by Chris Weitz and features stars like, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The movie starts off with an [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a web designer. I live in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. My company’s name is Black Alsatian. Yes this post is in a way to shamelessly punt my own business, but it is also in the hope that someone would read it before getting a web designer to build a website [...]
If you are from South Africa, I’m sure you’ve seen the advert on TV where the woman talks about blogging. She looks thoughtful then says, ‘Mm, blogging. Mikey set it up for me.’ It’s the most irritating thing I’ve ever seen! But anyway the point I’m trying to get to is, since everyone nowadays has [...]
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