SPF is an emerging standard that let's the owners of domain names tell people who receive email claiming to be from that domain name which SMTP servers are allowed to send email from that domain name. That's a slightly complex sentence, so let me give you an example. Then I'll make a note or two...
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Today, let's talk a little about how to create a color scheme for your website. In the old days, web designers had a palette of 256 "web safe" colors to choose from. These were the colors that wouldn't get dithered on a computer whose display supported only 256 colors at a time. It was important,...
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The Atom API will specify an open standard for editing blogs, Atom feeds, and other such resources. Any program or device will then be able to interact with any Atom server software that supports the API. As long as it meets the minimum technical requirements, that is. In the past, we planned to build in...
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You may be shocked to learn that not all feed reading and feed producing software adheres strictly to the RSS and Atom specifications, nor to the recommended practices for the use of them. Yeah, right. I doubt that comes as a surprise to any of you. Perhaps the best way to convince software vendors to...
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The nature of a weblog--a site whose primary content is the periodic postings of (usually) textual material by one or more people, arranged sequentially with the most recent entries appearing first--dictates many of the basic design decisions for such a site. Thus the details are where a blog designer's efforts will be expended. Or not....
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When terrorists threaten to kill a hostage if a country doesn't pull their troops out of Iraq, why not respond that if they kill the hostage, you'll increase the number of troops and come after them. And then if they kill the hostage, follow through. Make the consequences exactly the opposite of what they're trying...
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If breast cancer is detected using mammograms, is prostate cancer detected using sirograms? And will this entry affect the Google ads that appear on this page?

I don't suppose I need to rant about this for long. Daylight savings time is a nuisance. Changing clocks, adjusting to a new sleeping schedule, and figuring out time zone differences based on the time of year, are a pain. Would it be so difficult for the (probably rare) business or school that feels the...
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I'll be talking specifically today about adding a blogroll to your Blogger powered site, but even if you're not interested in doing that, this might be worth a read for some other principles that will be illustrated.

To start off with, let me point out the WRONG way to add a blogroll to your blog....
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Last night, Tim Bray posted a request that 'for the next few months, whenever we're talking to a co-worker or a journo or from a conference stage, to say never say "Atom" without, within the next 45 seconds, also saying "which as we all know must be served as application/atom+xml or it won't work"'. We're...
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