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Archive for October, 2007

Whois to be shut down? Maybe . . .

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

This is something I have mixed feelings about. The ICANN working group is trying to hammer out some sort of privacy policy on the various whois databases. It’s gotten to a point where they’re thinking of mandating simply shutting it down at the end of 2008 if an agreement isn’t hammered out between the various […]

Watch out, Google! Twine may tangle you up!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Technology Review is reporting today on a web application from Radar Technologies, named Twine, that uses The Semantic Web and natural language processing to index information in a new way. What makes this one different is that you can enter your own information such as emails, doc files, spreadsheet and other local files, and also […]

Old table and print think vs. css layout think

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Right now I’m working on coding a site into WordPress that was designed by a graphics designer who is, from what I can see, a print designer. It was done for another gal who was originally going to do the coding slice and dice for Macromedia Contribute, using a table layout, but for various reasons […]

I wish Standards Compliant and SECURE browsers would make some more gains!

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

One of the mailing lists I’m on just linked to the browser stats at the W3 school site. I just plain don’t understand why so many people still use that insecure and broken piece of manure called Internet Explorer, in whatever flavor it comes in. IE7 is very slightly less broken than IE6.
Between clients having […]

rsizr Tool Review

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

In one of my many news email lists this morning was a link to an article reviewing a new photo resizer that is supposed to allow you to make a small photo bigger without all the pixellation and noise. Ohh, that could be very handy, it’s a pain to try to get results in photoshop […]

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