From the monthly archives:

August 2004

Surfing the big wave goodbye

August 31, 2004

The internet is killing itself slowly.
Ironically, the biggest advantage of the internet is the one that’s slowly killing it. The internet allows anyone, anywhere to do what they want in total anonymity. That’s great and very liberating. Now what about those of us stuck on the sharp end?
The internet isn’t owned or regulated by anyone [...]

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IPD: Blurry Screenshot #1

August 26, 2004

I’ve been working hard (cough) on Invision Power Dynamic, our upcoming new CMS, for a little while now. Development has been stopping and starting between IPB 2.0.0 updates but we’re finally getting to the stage where the back-end code is inplace and I can now flesh out the code structure.
With that in mind and a [...]

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Spam of the week

August 26, 2004

My inbox was jam-packed with spam again today. Thunderbird does a good job of filtering most of it out but I like to check in the junk folder now and again to make sure that it’s not decided that all communication from fellow IPS’rs should now be junked. I would ‘whitelist’ [at]invisionpower.com but I often [...]

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Phantom of the Opera

August 26, 2004

My previous blog entry was mentioned over at the Opera.com forums (my.Opera.com) and a helpful member posted a fix for my CSS quagmire.
So, thanks to ‘adcott’ this blog should now render just fine in Opera. It’s probably broken it in IE but that’s half the fun of the CSS see-saw.
Now, to add that fix to [...]

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I have no standards

August 25, 2004

No – I’m not talking about loose morales, I’m just spelling out what the internet has been telling us since day 2. (Day 1 was inventing smilies).
The internet is essentially a huge unmoderated confusing mess. A section of the internet community then decided to try and standardize everything and that’s when the fun really started. [...]

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