I waited outside OfficeMax on Black Friday, I was #2 in line, hoping to pickup a new laptop. Unfortunately, they had only one in stock. My friend John, #1 in line, bought it. Regardless, Staples’ price-match-guarantee was there to save me! For a low $600, I’m now the owner of a new Averatec 12″ laptop. [...]
Since the advent of RSS, ‘feed theft’ has been a problem. To summarize the problem, you post on your blog and then thieves syndicate your posts onto their own websites, which are loaded with advertisements. They then play blackhat SEO tricks to receive high rankings on search engines. In the end, your blog is making [...]
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In terms of editing webpages, I’ve been a ‘vim’ guy for almost a decade, a ‘notepad’ guy before that, and a CoffeCup users before that. I was never terribly fond of graphical editors. However, now, I might’ve found a new way of editing my website. Today, I experimented with using tX. This is an XML [...]
In the past several years, browser vendors have made great strides in supporting client-side XSLT, and adoption rates for compatable browsers is now extremely high. So how come we’re not seeing greater adoption with developers? The vendors have very much adopted it — Sun, Microsoft, Novell, Mozilla, etc. I’ve played with XSLT/XML on and off [...]
A potential redesign for Grokthis.. only works in Firefox right now. The CSS menus are broken in other browsers… http://eric.windisch.us/files/gt-new200611/index.xml Please give your feedback :)
