"It's all about the 'O'," the ad says. I've seen the ads a number of times, but Overstock.com still isn't the first thing that pops into my head. Instead, I think of Oprah's magazine and, probably because of the attractive woman who appears on screen with the big red "O", "ovulation". They're doing a great...
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When someone publishes an RSS or Atom feed, what are they expecting people to do with it? View it in their feed reader? Display it on their website? Aggregate it with other feeds and republish the results in a new feed? Display an aggregated feed on their website? Some publishers include comments in their feeds...
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The hardest problems to solve are those that are caused by unsolved problems. Thus, sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to address some other problem. Taking the time to find the root of a causal chain can be the difference between treating the cause and treating the symptoms.

Let's say you want...
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Well, I managed yesterday to get in contact with the people who were sliming my server with referrer spam. I asked them to stop, and they removed me from their database! Amazing! My referrer logs look better today.

How did I manage to contact them? Their domain names were registered to someone with an email...
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I've been updating my referrer spam blocks every few days, but the **** who's spamming me keeps registering new domain names to do their spamming from. It keeps my server logs a little cleaner, but it feels like more work than I should have to be doing...sort of like email spam. Blocking based on the...
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Feng Shui, the Chinese art of arranging furniture so that it directs the energy flow in a room, is all the rage these days. Politicians have long practiced a related art: Deng Shui (pronounced "dung shway")--the art of framing a discussion so that when the mud slinging begins ("mud" being a euphamism here...), the filth...
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You wouldn't think that offending your target audience would be a good marketing strategy...but then you're reading this, aren't you? I figure whats' good for monstrous corporations has got to be good for a little weblog, right? So following the lead of beer brewers, I've decided to expose my readers for the dopes they are....
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However high or low your page is in Google's rankings, more people will visit your site if the text that appears in their search results interests them. How does Google determine what text to display? What can you do to control it?

Obvious things first: The link text is taken from your page title. If...
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If parodies of copyrighted material a protected under fair use, perhaps an entire company could be a parody of another. Think Macrohard, with their operating system Doors. The icons are all doors which, when clicked, open half way and then slam shut, turn blue, and stop working till the computer is rebooted.

Think Moon Macrochaos,...
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Drop shadows can be a useful design element for adding depth and variety to your webpage designs, but tranditional techniques for adding drop shadows have required adding images to your pages, resulting in some slowing of download times. Here's a technique for creating drop shadows using CSS which does not require images, and which allows...
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