a.k.a. Miscellaneous, not pertaining to development or architecture
With all the recent press (Craigslist drops prostitutes, Craigslist CEO demands apology) about craigslist the last few days, eBay is up almost 10%. According to Google Finance, eBay owns about 25% of craigslist.
Remember when web standards were supposed to end cross browser development issues? Now you can not share documents the same way, according to this ZDNet article.
If you are like me (and I am realistic to know that the odds are really against that), you could care less about visitors to your blog that have Javascript disabled. There is really just no reason for it, with 99.99% of browsers supporting it. So, if you want to save a few bytes and just have a clickable icon for your Delicious tag, here is my version:
<img    id=”DeliciousIcon1″ title=”Bookmark this on Delicious”
src=”http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif”
height=”10″ width=”10″ alt=”Bookmark this on Delicious”
style=”cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle”
onclick=”window.open(‘http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url=’+encodeURIComponent(‘<?php the_permalink() ?>’)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(‘<?php the_title() ?>’),’delicious’, ‘toolbar=no,width=550,height=550’); return false;” />
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes blog post on ZDNet today reminds me of when Windows 95 users where expecting the next service pack and instead got an ad for an upgrade.
Buying Vista is the biggest mistake I have made since buying Circuit City stock.