From http://www.tommyvallier.com/2009/07/23/digg-advertising-gone-mad/ -
The ads are therefore taking up 49.35% of the viewable space. Let me repeat that: fourty-nine point three five percent. For advertisements. That’s MASSIVE.
Bohemian Rhapsody played on old computer beeps
Read the rest of this entry »Some time ago, I set up a Twitter account to relay the local weather report to my cellphone. The plan was to use TwitterFeed to relay the RSS from The Weather Network to the Twitter account, then follow it via SMS.
Lots of sabots in the works. First and foremost the RSS from The Weather Network [...]
The OpenID library I’m using for Rosebleed (and other projects, both major and minor) is SimpleOpenID from PHPClasses.org.
The original class did most of what I needed, but I made some minor changes. I’ve emailed the original contributor to offer my changes back, but until I hear back, I’ve posted my modified version here:
SimpleOpenID class
Comments/feedback always [...]
I’ve finally finished up the OpenID signup for Rosebleed. The workflow is what you’d expect – OpenID box on the login form, if the given URL isn’t recognized then it redirects to the signup form and prepopulates it with the sreg fields.
I did notice a strange behaviour in OpenID; I’m not yet certain if I [...]
This is a huge step towards an open, interoperable social web; Google and Facebook are probably the two largest collectors and holders of data (social and otherwise) on the web, and they have been among the most reticient about sharing their data.
Read the rest of this entry »Over the past few days, I’ve put some work into the site:
Updated to WordPress 2.3.2, which was entirely painless
Began work on a new theme, which you may have noticed. Over the next while, I’ll be putting more into it; currently it’s very minimalist, little more than an XHTML skeleton with a couple moving parts.
More to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I just came across an interesting post about energy savings based on the colour of a webpage (specifically, Google – but the idea applies everywhere): A black Google start screen? | Wired Gecko.
I’ve found other posts dating back to May of this year (The Numbers Guy) on the subject, so it’s really not a [...]
