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31st January 2004, the wee hours | Comments (7)
Just a quick one to let you know that I’ve revamped the syndication stuff. ‘Full post’ and Atom feeds are now up for grabs. Any problems then let me know.
19th January 2004, early evening | Comments (19)
Amidst the madness of being inside all day, drinking tea, and tidying up my collection of pens, I’ve found time to make a few small changes on the site…
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16th January 2004, evening time | Comments (7)
A while back I promised I’d do a write-up on how I build my blogged people and blogged domain pages. So, here ’tis…
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10th January 2004, the wee hours | Comments (18)
I’m going to blow my own horn here for a moment, *toot*, and say I’m pretty pleased with the error handling on this site.
I’ve already mentioned the 404 error pages I’ve set up, but I’ve also taken the time to ensure that any other typos, broken links, or mistakes on my part give the user some friendly and helpful feedback.
Let’s try and generate some errors on the site and see what happens…
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9th January 2004, late at night | Comments (4)
If you’re a Safari user and you find this site rather slow then these comments from Dave Hyatt might explain why:
In my earlier blog entry on caching problems, the issue of CSS being overly aggressive about fetching background-images was mentioned. I have fixed the issue now so that background images will only be fetched when first used. Sites like SprintPCS load much more quickly with this fix.
It seems that the browser downloads all the images specified in a style sheet, regardless of whether they’re actually being used on the page. Since my CSS contains a lot of un-used image links, users of Apple’s browser have been greeted with messages such as Fetching 1 of 84 images
when they try to view this site.
Apparently the latest version of the browser (1.0) still exhibits this behaviour, but the next build should include the fix.
A collection of miscellaneous links that don't merit a main blog posting, but which are interesting none-the-less.
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.— George W Bush (9)
Stuff from the intersection of design, culture and technology.(3)
A selection of blogs I read on a regular basis.