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Google at 10

About a week ago Google celebrated it’s 10th birthday. It’s amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that’s around that long. Screenshot of Google from 1997 They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can play [...]

Forum dispute escalated to murder

From the Guardian A German computer gamer is being held in connection with the murder of a British university student after an apparent cyberspace dispute escalated into a killing. Read the entire article at the Guardian.

Sometimes spam is just funny

Spam is one of those problems that you can’t do much about, so you might as well try and find a little humor. Perfect example. I just got an email to moderate a comment here that was a spam ad for software to spam forums, blogs, and guestbooks. Were I looking for such software, which [...]

Try this – about:robots in FireFox

Type about:robots into the address bar in FireFox and press enter. You’ll find an easter egg.

Why is middle the default vertical align for a table cell?

A little bit of a rant here. Why do HTML table cells default to vertically centering the text? I have never done a design that it looked right for the cells to be vertically aligned to the middle. It seems that top aligned would be the most commonly used and for those times when middle [...]