Web Design Blog - March 14, 2008

Baselining - Serious Newtonian Consequences

If you haven't heard, a combination sport of both slacklining and BASE-Jumping is making its debut in Moab. So, here's the idea. You stretch a 180 foot rope between a U-shaped canyon rim and balance your way from one side to another. When you fall, your BASE-Jumping chute hopefully saves your life. I first learned of this on nytimes.com. After reading, baselining was not to be found on Google, Wikipedia, youtube - nothing. Will search engines find this article? This is officially an SEO test... ... read more!

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Update…

I'm waiting on Windows to shut down. It's installing 72 updates. ... read more!

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Conformity

Yesterday I infected my Mac with the worst computer virus known to man... Microsoft Windows! (pause for shrieks of horror) Yeah, you heard me right I installed Parallels and thereafter installed Windows. Honestly it's not that bad, I'm able to beat Windows into submission via the tools included in Parallels. Like when it is using 100% of the cpu I can just press the pause button which locks it into a steel cage until I am ready to play with it again. Alas, I can no longer say, "sorry I can't he... read more!

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captcha a necessary annoyance

What is captcha anyway? well it's a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". Whoa, what does this mean? In a nutshell, it's a simple test that a human can do easily and a computer program cannot. It is primarily used on websites as a way to reduce spam, specifically spam that is entered by web spiders that crawl around the net posting spam without human intervention. If the spam bot is presented with a test that it must pass to post it's... read more!

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Hottest Trend in Social Networking Sites

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo, YouTube and so many others have become a popular past time for savvy internet users. I remember when I wanted to see what old acquaintances from my own high school were doing. You do a search for high school alumni and Reunions.com and Classmates listings pop up all over the place. The only problem I found however was that I had to pay to see what people were doing. I wanted to get an update on past classmates, but wasn't willing to pay to do so. In reality, m... read more!

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