Posts in 2004
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The Rapture Index (via) Whoa.
Why online newspapers require registration. Rick Skrenta says it’s due to competition with print ads and spam.
Matching newlines in JavaScript
Just a quick note: the . character in a JavaScript regular expression will never match a newline character. If you want to match any character including newlines you can use the [\s\S] character class instead, which means “any character that’s either whitespace or not whitespace”.
Implementing Piped List in CSS (via) Simple, effective border trick.
The Sun Does Not Shine Online. Paper losing 90,000 readers a day to their free web edition.
Net security threats growing fast. 30,000+ PCs a day are being compromised for botnets.
Tkinter Tricks: Using Complex Numbers to Rotate Canvas Items. Smart use of Python’s complex number type.
CSS 2.1 Index. The best way of browing the CSS spec. Even better with TypeAhead find.
My llama photos. I think it’s a llama; it might be an alpaca.
UI Patterns and Techniques (via) Patterns for User Interface design.
A9 and Google Local. Remote scripting features heavily on these two recent high profile site launches.
Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates (via) It be that day again, yarrr.
Projection Stylesheets. Jim Wilkinson writing on the css-discuss wiki.
Flickr iPhoto Plugin 0.7 (via) Flickr just got a whole lot easier to feed things to.
Introducing Myself. Michael Moncur takes up the reigns at the JavaScript weblog.
zipdecode (Java Applet). Type a zip code (try 66044) and watch the USA get narrowed down. Brilliant.
Pollster, Schmollster. Jonas on why the polls don’t accurately reflect the population.
Firefox Plush Toy. Awww!
James Tauber: The Inverse Law of Bug Complexity. “The harder a bug is to track down, the simpler the fix tends to be.”
43F Interview: Alcor, Developer of Quicksilver. Q&A with the Quicksilver guy.
Resources for WordPress. WordPress is mentioned on the front page of Linux Journal this month.
Hiring. No False Positives. Why Google and Microsoft have such high standards.
Quicksilver: moving around and training yourself (via) More QuickSilver tips from Merlin, the world’s most useful blogger.
Edwards: No military draft if Democrats win (via) Is the draft about to become a campaign issue?
This Old Blog, Part I. Tom at Gadgetopia has some great thoughts on combinign a blog with its admin interface.
“Willie the Warlock” by Billy Q. Effinger (via) Best song ever, now with comments!
Critical Mozilla Vulnerabilities Fixed in New Versions. Various buffer overflows, fixed in Firefox PR 1.0.
Microsoft warns of poisoned picture peril. Now opening a JPEG can get you in trouble.
Spread Firefox. They’re aiming for 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days.