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Joel writes about Bribing Bloggers, and that …there's an interesting debate going on about whether bloggers should accept gifts from vendors.” … Come on… what is this? It is not for anyone to say or debate about what other (bloggers) should do, accept, write or whatever… Sure, there is an implied ethical line, where the … Read more

I am off to my ski vacation trip, back in a week… My weblog will be very quiet until then… When I return, I have some code to share, new technical articles, and I will also tell you about a very cool company and product created a very good friend of mine Dr. Jeff Capone … Read more

Remember the days before SPAM? Well you can't because SPAM is not only still here, but is worst every day, and not only affects email but also is having a huge negative effect on weblogs. Automattic Kismet or Akismet, has become the SPAM tool of choice for the blogosphere. The tool is very effective to … Read more

Thanks to Anders for pointing out to me the issue I was having with how my Blojsom-based weblog comment page was being rendered under IE7. And once again, Rostislav Hristov came to the rescue and provided me with the fix… thanks Rostislav!!! For everyone's benefit, the fix is to add more IE7-specific CSS: <!–[if IE … Read more

Infrared continues to be an important point-to-point secure communications technology… The Infrared Data Association recently made some announcements, including the following: “…its newly published Market Report which shows IrDA has crossed the 1 Billion Mark, with the unprecedented growth of 297 million IrDA enabled devices shipped in the year 2005.” ceo

Your web site “is broken” if… visiting users have to fall back to the browser's search box to (externally) find what they are looking for… Many web sites are so poorly designed and/or organized, that it is faster to find information on it by searching using an external search engine such as Google or Yahoo! … Read more

Thanks to Rostislav Hristov, my weblog is now working OK under IE7! For those using Blojsom and the Asual theme, the fix is to add the following CSS to the HEAD section: <!–[if IE 7]> <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”> #content { height: auto; padding-bottom: 300px; } #contentBodyLeft { background-color: #D5DEED; } #contentBodyCenter { background: none; } … Read more

…you need to know that Men who use mobile phones face increased risk of infertility …

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It seems the IE7 development team forgot about a very important product development concept: maintaining backward compatibility. A good example is my website. While not 100% valid XHTML or CSS, it works fine on IE6, Firefox, Safari, Opera… But it looks like crap on IE7.  During the IE7 Beta I had noticed this issue, and … Read more