An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.
Some hardware geek, the sort who actually reads press releases from obscure Pacific Rim component manufacturers, posts a link to the press release in a Mac Internet forum.
The Mac rumor sites spring into action. Liberally quoting “reliable” sources inside Cupertino, irrelevant “experts,” and each other, they quickly transform baseless speculation into widely accepted fact. […]
Do you speak Google?
- Make every single page on your site accessible via a text-based link - as opposed to Javascript, Flash, DHTML, etc. The Googlebot only speaks text.
[See #6 in Nine things you can do to make your web site better]- Keep the number of links on a given page less than 100.
[See Google’s Webmaster Guidelines]- Give every single page on the site a complete and meaningful
A new exhibition of Caravaggio’s work is is ’stunning’, says the Observer:
If you care about web coding, this bit of code - making a text box without having any divs is really quite stunning. Without any containing code, just using relative code based on where text is, Dunstan Orchard has managed to create an exact replica of a box (for Mozilla.org) that has retaining code in other versions of the site.
NTL’s servers have been caching my images, which really doesn’t help when I’m trying to see what updates look like ‘live’ on the site. I would add no-cache code into my header if only the code weren’t there already. I don’t know what’s going on at NTL - they seem to be caching despite no-cache instructions.
and its STILL the cache version Patrick! Its very annoying - I want to see the prper version, not something some server wants me to see.