Posts marked with the tag “Internet”
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The Long and Short of It
Tuesday, 15th December 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet • No comments
A summary of how I feel about sharing and distributing content in the internet, how one should integrate and use RSS feeds and summaries, and why my perfect solution may not be your perfect solution.
Categorization bug in WordPress
Thursday, 26th November 2009 • Internet • No comments
I’ve been using WordPress for years and in the main, it’s a fantastic piece of collaborative software. However, the fact that the standalone version which is installed on one’s own [...]
Survey of internet access speeds
Friday, 13th November 2009 • Internet • No comments
I order to better cover the needs of my visitors, I’m carrying out a simple survey of how you visit the site.
Why opening new browser windows for external links is pointless
Thursday, 12th November 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet, Technique • No comments
Don’t you just hate it when you’ve been using the internet for a little while and you have a mass of browser windows to battle with? Where the hell did that website go, that you were looking at earlier? Both of these annoyances are entirely unnecessary, and this article explains why.
SprainTV
Thursday, 15th October 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet, Video • No comments
Manuel Reinhard (also known through his personal website and Twitter stream as “sprain”) has recently launched a regular video podcast in review of the week’s happenings in the Swiss internet scene.
Ten years of push-button publishing
Thursday, 27th August 2009 • In the Media, Internet, Work • No comments
On 23rd August 2009, the ten year anniversary of a web service called Blogger passed with barely a blip; only a small handful of news reports show up at Google’s news aggregating service and the world at large has paid little notice to the milestone.
Cross-domain Javascript calls
Wednesday, 12th August 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet • 1 comment
A technical article covering the use of Javascript functions and files across multiple web domains.
Jungfrau Zeitung secures its newspaper business
Friday, 31st July 2009 • In the Media, Internet • No comments
The newest version of the newspaper, to which I still subscribe online despite no longer working or living in the catchment area, produced by a small handful of people and covering purely local news instead of falling to the temptation of reporting news from more distant regions, is at least a match for – if not better than – most national newspapers.
Here today, here tomorrow
Wednesday, 1st July 2009 • Internet • 1 comment
With an audience comes responsibility. Use it wisely and carefully.
Customer disservice from Ryanair
Wednesday, 25th February 2009 • Internet • No comments
Abusive feedback from Ryanair in response to a blog post, which detailed a potential flaw in the online booking system, provokes a rapid increase in negative publicity for the airline.
Facebook: The Empire Steps Back
Friday, 20th February 2009 • Internet, Photography • No comments
At the beginning of February, community website Facebook took advantage of the ubiquitous ability to change, modify, add, or delete portions of Terms of Use at any time without further notice, to amend a clause relating to user content.
Sharing photos online
Wednesday, 21st January 2009 • Internet, Photography • No comments
Just news on a change of how I upload and share photographs online. I have decided that as a part of the re-design of my website for 2009, I am [...]
