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Writing

How I got my Harry Potter book

It was late Friday night and I had just gone down to feed the cat before getting ready for bed when I noticed the light that shines through the front window had gone out. Moments later, there was a smart tap tap tap at the door. Somewhat nervously, I looked out through the peephole to […]

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JavaScript Technology

Clever document.write killer

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some ad networks and other script-based entities, such as Google Ads, I believe, use JavaScript document.write to write out the content to our web pages. The organizations use this because they want the content embedded in the page at the point where the item is placed, and there isn’t a […]

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JavaScript Semantics

Lists of good stuff

I love lists of good stuff: Danny Ayers, Week of Semantic Web. I hope, I hope, I hope, Danny continues this. Agile Ajax links several GWT tutorials, all in one post — handy if you’re into the Google Web Toolkit, or want to give it a try.

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Graphics/CSS Photography

Photoshop misery

I had been keeping my version of Photoshop current on my Mac, but not my Windows. When I saw an upgrade package at Amazon that would upgrade my Windows 5.0 version to CS2, I decided to get it. A day wasted later, and oddly enough, talking to what sounds like the same people Chuqui talked […]

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Technology

Movin’ on up to PHP5

Recovered from Wayback Machine. The PHP group has announced end of support for PHP4 and encouraging everyone to move on up to PHP5. WordPress Matt isn’t happy with PHP5 and believes such a move should happen when PHP6 goes beta. I think the point really is that the PHP group can’t move forward on PHP6, […]