Last Minute Xmas Presents
If you're still looking for a nice Christmas present for those relatives and friends who have - virtually - everything here's one I made earlier: a bit of /bin/bash paired with the output of your digital camera and some rushed CSS can generate a quite nice looking personalised calendar. It probably costs as much or more than one printed professionally but you can't beat the "I spent a lot of time doing this" home made look the end product will have even if you have to march into town to get the spiral binding done.
My [very basic] script should run on all systems except windows.
It's a start
At last someone is talking sense:
Bankers and financiers whose misconduct contributed to the credit crunch should be prosecuted, David Cameron said today.
CSS Dev on Speed
If you're creating a lot of CSS work CleverCSS might be able to improve on your work flow. It's such an elegant solution it's strange nobody thought of it before.
Power Computing
Turning an unused PC off overnight obviously saves money by not burning power. What I didn't know is that people who still use windows on their PCs have to fork out real money[1] - year after year - to manage automated shutdowns.
[1] http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableitärchives/2008/09/pc_power_manage.html
I've started a process of re-arranging night jobs and turning systems off when unused a while ago. The bios or wake on lan - I use wakelan - do the booting, and shutdown, when all jobs have been done, is a built in command that's been there for ever. If you use the right OS that is.
What a Coincidence
Isn't it strange, that when you search Google Shopping in the UK for a 52mm 250D macro lens you find [at least] three pages from three different outfits, offering the product - not in stock - at three different but very low prices, all using the same shopping cart software and page structure, all at home in the same class C network?
But then maybe it's not a coincidence but plain old spam?
Promoting Fame
Doing something out of the ordinary helps to create buzz. Especially, if it's done unwittingly.
Believing ones own Propaganda
After about a decade in SEO I still don't know if those people who claim to be able to build your link popularity without spamming truly believe they're exempt, or if they just don't care. You can't delegate becoming fit, or attractive. And if you understand what relevance is you know you don't become relevant by saying you are. And if you don't care, you'll be irrelevant in no time.
There's a longish discussion [in german] about blog spam committed by an SEO outfit who call themselves an ethical link builder. Like with relevance you don't become ethical by claiming you are.