Monthly Archives: April 2003

Now this is a 404 error [link]

By Ian | April 29, 2003

Now this is a 404 error [link]

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I’m going to pay for this, no doutb, but here goes…

By Ian | April 29, 2003

I’m going to pay for this, no doutb, but here goes.. A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager

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The Rudy Giuliani of Toronto? Toronto finds a hero.

By Ian | April 29, 2003

Toronto finds a hero in Dr. Basrur. wonderful story from the Toronto Globe and Mail:
“I have such faith in Dr. Basrur,” she said, referring to the city’s diminutive, 46-year-old, single-mother medical officer of health, who had followed the mayor’s performance with a lucid and persuasive, fact-by-fact deconstruction of the WHO analysis. “She is so honest [...]

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Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule?Summary: Text…

By Ian | April 28, 2003

Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule?
Summary: Text-only advertisements work far better than banners, but is this only due to their novelty? Search engine text ads will retain their superiority over time, but text ads on other sites will work only if they focus on directly meeting users’ needs.
From Jakob Nielsen (making web site suck [...]

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JS form validate to re-cycle function validateF…

By Ian | April 28, 2003

JS form validate to re-cycle
function validateForm() {
var f = document.forms[0]
var ErrorFields = “”
var ccError = “”
// For development Only
selectedbypassLoc = f.bypass.selectedIndex
selectedbypassValue = f.bypass.options[selectedbypassLoc].text
if ( selectedbypassValue != “Test” )
{
alert (”For development Only Validation ByPass!!!!”)
[...]

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HTML Tag of the Day :The No Break (nobr) tag, so y…

By Ian | April 28, 2003

HTML Tag of the Day :
The No Break (nobr) tag, so your “Brand Name” is always on the same line for those picky marketing people at Giant Uber Corporation with the really long name Inc.

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Miss use of brain power: Magnetic Poetry on a web …

By Ian | April 28, 2003

Miss use of brain power: Magnetic Poetry on a web page!

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SARS: The Lullabye from BWG Twinkle, twinkle, lit…

By Ian | April 25, 2003

SARS: The Lullabye from BWG

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS
How I wonder what you are!
Up inside my lungs so high
Now I can’t breathe deep or sigh
Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS
How I wonder what you are.
Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS
How I wonder where you are!
To Hong Kong the virus came
From China, they are to blame
Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS
How I wonder [...]

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Mark Twain: "Advertisements contain the only truth…

By Ian | April 25, 2003

Mark Twain: “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”

Hey Guys (Chuck, Bob, Marty & Sue) maybe we can use this in our next pitch?
Via Adam Curry

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Death to version 4’sPiece over on Tim Bray’s Ongoi…

By Ian | April 25, 2003

Death to version 4’s
Piece over on Tim Bray’s Ongoing about them deciding to stop support Version 4 Browsers (Netscape, and MS IE), why and what this means.
As it happens I’ve been asked to try and “fix” a major format breakage for Netscape 4.x on the Content Management web app I built for my current [...]

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