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.
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]
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.
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).
Happy birthday to me!
Inspired by the Eric Costello article I mentioned previously, dotvoid has come up with a different solution to doing remote server calls. This one is small, simple, clean, and uses the DOM (which means Netscape 4 is out in the cold). Very nice! via scottandrew.com
I’d like to thank Scott for voting my site the Best Weblog Ever!
I’ve updated this site to include comments, permalinks, and “haggis points” (AKA “karma”).
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).