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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 [...]

Keeping yourself motivated working from home

I’ve found that it’s very difficult for me to stay motivated on projects from home.  At work there is a boss breathing down your next, but at home you don’t have that pressure.  Sure, no boss is one of the benefits to working for yourself.  But having a boss certainly helps to stay motivated.
What else [...]

Sometimes I just frustrate myself

Have you ever spent way too much time looking for a solution to a problem?  Ever felt like smacking yourself in the head when you finally found the fix?  Well today I spent about half an hour trying to find out why a MySQL INSERT query wasn’t working.
I was working on a logging table [...]

AdSense ads less clickable

A change in AdSense is making the clickable areas smaller. While before a click anywhere on the ad would take the visitor to the page advertised and credit the publisher with the click, now only the title and URL are live as shown in the graphic below.

My thought is that this change will result [...]

Yahoo Slurp going nuts

I’ve noticed that the Slurp bot that Yahoo throws around has been going crazy on a couple of my forums over the past few days. Right now there are Slurps coming from 23 different IP addresses on one of my forums. Sure, 23 isn’t all that many but it’s a small forum with [...]