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Quick shout out to Peter-Paul Koch at QuirksMode.org for his very nice javascript browser detection script. Clever, and definately deserved more than a tweet. [include:blogad] 

As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures. We've had them done for the kids a few times but this time I stepped up for a laugh! I figured I could use it as an avatar if it ...

After developing for *cough* some time it's not often that I come across a new style of URL that I've never even heard of before. A few days ago I saw a forum post about a 404 message someone got about their geotrust smartseal badge. I followed up and found that the javascript that geotrust supply has a URL style that I've never seen ...

From wikipedia: A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth." You may not be familiar with ...

Until today I have been reviewing my gmail spam folder each day or so, and marking all new spam as read when I've reviewed it. Most of the time that works ok, but I've noticed that there are times when I get spam with a presumably deliberately wrong date - maybe a few years ago. That's quite clever of them really, in a way, because ...

First, always keep the wrapping, even the little twisty ties that keep the wires tidy. Keep the paperwork and the CD's - and I try to open the tamper-proof stickers with a sharp knife so that I don't rip the paperwork. I'm getting very good at this because I've returned multiple routers and associated equipment in the last ...

Don't believe anything you read today. I know better, but I still forgot the date and believed Daniel had sold his company. His post was very well done, but I still think my old April Fool's Joke was better. Back in 2005 it was more believable I guess. I had a load of congrats emails that day, and I felt quite mean telling people I was ...

Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1 [include:blogad] 

LOL, the best use yet for our awesome shared family calendar(s): the answer to the age-old question.."What's for dinner, Mom?"Tara created a new shared calendar called Menu and added "all-day" appointments (just because they are at top and bold like she wanted) that contains our evening meal! (Note: Tara likes to plan the ...

I was having loads of fun getting a "borrowed" web service running on the staging server yesterday. As with all code that you take without asking, there are always.. shall we say, "hiccups". Apparently every line in the web.config conflicted with the root web.config. And not in a nice way. Hack. Slash. Keyword/Value pairs ...