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.
Big Blue Marble
February 8th, 2002Wired Nation
February 6th, 2002
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
February 5th, 2002Sorry 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
January 30th, 2002If 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).
Oh yeah….
January 30th, 2002Happy birthday to me!
Frameless Remote Scripting
January 30th, 2002Inspired 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
Best Weblog Ever
January 30th, 2002
I’d like to thank Scott for voting my site the Best Weblog Ever!
Site Upgrade
January 29th, 2002I’ve updated this site to include comments, permalinks, and “haggis points” (AKA “karma”).
Queking in My Boots!
January 29th, 2002Remote Scripting with IFRAME
January 28th, 2002Eric 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).
