27 January 2009 ~ Comments Off

ClickToFlash Is Dead; Long Live ClickToFlash

ClickToFlash Is Dead; Long Live ClickToFlashSo it appears the original project page at Google Code for ClickToFlash is no longer accessible, for reasons unknown. That’s OK, though, because the project was open source, and it’s already been…

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10 November 2008 ~ Comments Off

Comcast’s cable modem/wifi access point sucks so hard. Maybe it’s mad that I named the network “IHateComcast.”

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01 May 2006 ~ Comments Off

Pages even more screwed up for Internet Explorer

Thanks to the good people at Explorer Destroyer, Google’s Adsense referrals, and Microsoft’s conditional comments, I’ve made my page even more annoying for the 44-51% of you who are browsing the page with Internet Explorer. Sorry about that.
The site now displays a large yellow banner at the top with a message encouraging people to [...]

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24 February 2004 ~ Comments Off

New NSA site

Wow. I’m so underwhelmed that I can barely type.
The National Security Agency has updated their entire website. I wish I had the energy to give it a full critique, but it’s just terrible. Let’s just go over the low points:

They’ve got a useless and ugly splash page done in Flash that sits and does [...]

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07 February 2004 ~ Comments Off

Following in daddy’s footsteps

I can’t say that I mind the idea of my son becoming a web developer, and I certainly can’t criticize the aesthetics of his page. Heck, it’s far prettier than this place.
But I am a little disappointed that Jared chose Flash for his site.
It’s nice, don’t get me wrong. But it’s got problems.
The light [...]

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30 January 2004 ~ Comments Off

Dumb browsers

In Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 833786, the hard-working folks at Microsoft have a solution for the recent security problems with Internet Explorer. Because websites can easily spoof the status bar and location bar in IE to make it look like you’re at a trusted site, Microsoft recommends the following process:
The most effective step [...]

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19 November 2003 ~ Comments Off

Live from SLC

Live, we present to you, this weblog from Salt Lake City.
Okay, so it’s not that exciting. But I’m here at the Macromedia MAX 2003 conference and finally got a tiny bit of web access. So there you go.
Try and control yourselves.

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22 August 2003 ~ Comments Off

Cynthia’s great, but a shark would be helpful

I love Cynthia, I really do, and yes she’s quite a looker, but somehow there’s a part of me that really wants JAWS.
If you care about accessibility, you should too. And I know what you’re thinking. Where am I gonna get nine hundred bucks to drop on software that I don’t need?
Good point. [...]

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