Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

WordPress, web development, and world domination.

Big Blue Marble

NASA has some of the most detailed full-color pictures of the earth ever released. The site was bogged down today (probably due to millions of people downloading multi-megabyte image files), but it really was worth the wait. Check out the Big Blue Marble exhibit.

Wired Nation

Wow. About 143 million people, which is over half of the U.S. population, are using the Internet. New users are coming online at a rate of 2 million per month. When you zoom in to look at the stats for kids between the ages of 5 and 17, about 90 percent of them are wired.

[via Slashdot]

Busy

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I’ve been staying pretty busy at work. I’ve seen several links that I’d normally add here, but I just haven’t been able to spare the time.

There is one new thing, though. Last weekend I finally got around to getting the webcam hooked back up.

Whoops

If you’ve tried to use the permalinks, comments, or haggis points since the upgrade, you probably noticed that they didn’t work. Sorry about that. I’ve fixed it, and have even updated the CVS version of MyPHPblog (I’m a developer on that project).

Site Upgrade

I’ve updated this site to include comments, permalinks, and “haggis points” (AKA “karma”).

Queking in My Boots!

Check out this mad DHTML chatting action, called quek. I was going to try to describe it to you, but you just have to try it. Click the link. Now!

The folks at Q42 have some killer projects. Wow.

Remote Scripting with IFRAME

Eric Costello (of glish.com fame) has an excellent article on Remote Scripting with IFRAME. This simplified method of client/server communication allows you to do some cool dynamic things on web sites, without the complexity of systems like XML-RPC or SOAP, or commercial alternatives like the KnowNow Event Router (which is pretty cool, too, if you aren’t the complete do-it-yourselfer).