Category: General

  • Using Furl for almost a year.

    I’ve been using Furl for almost a year now. In fact it was Jul 23, 2004 at 23:13:58 GMT that I ‘furled’ my very first furl: Furl – How to Save. Using it on a daily basis, I collected some 500+ interesting, funny, need-to-know, nice-to-know or what-else public links. Not much compared to others, but…

  • Finally, I got Pagerank!

    Finally! It has been a long wait. 🙂 But it’s only a meagre PR of 1! Damn it. 🙁 It’s about time I remove my homepage then. 😉 In a weird way my homepage has received a 1, but the rest a 4. Take for instance the reference or the Google Search category. Ah well……

  • Firefox 1.0.5 released

    While Firefox 1.1 is underway we’re presented with yet another 1.0 update. So what’s new? Firefox 1.0.5 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Also the promise of “Improvements to stability.” sounds…

  • Google Earth :-/

    In a totally non-webdev way I’ve let my blog down for a ‘couple o’ days’. Why? That damn Google Earth virus caught me… I advise, anyone with some time on their hands, not to install the damn thing. First there was Google Maps. Before that, Google acquired Keyhole. Now they give you this piece of…

  • Google Toolbar for Firefox

    Google has released an official beta, what isn’t beta from Google these days, of their toolbar for Firefox. Previously this was only available for IE-users. Get the toolbar at: http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/ Furthermore they’ve released two more extensions: Google Send to Phone: Send text-messages of web-content (U.S. only!) Google Suggest for Firefox: Get search-term-suggestions right in the…

  • FeedBurner’s Link Splicer

    People viewing my feed will be relieved as of today. I will no longer use the FeedBurner ‘Link Splice’ option, which added my Furl into the main sites webfeed. Why? I was getting fed up by the constant ‘there’s a new item’ notice in Bloglines and FeedDemon. Also, I don’t see an added value merging…

  • Macromedia Podcast

    Macromedia have had blogs and feeds for some time. And now they’ve started a podcast service: Macromedia Developer Relations Podcast A discussion of Macromedia technologies and interviews with Macromedia employees. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/podcast/ (Direct link to first podcast.) Thanks for the tip Fred!

  • WebDesign according to Google

    Just take a look at the first page at Google. There are 7 million hits and all the links on the first page stink. 🙁 How come? Is it the most abused keyword? 😕

  • MediaWiki and Google Sitemaps

    As I could not find an extension or script specifically for MediaWiki that would automatically deploy a Google Sitemap, I thought, why not build one myself? And in the process try and learn some PHP on the way. So here’s my result: http://www.thinklemon.com/wiki/sitemap.xml.php It’s submitted to Google as of yet. Let’s see what it’ll do.…

  • A decade of WebDev.

    What did people do before there was the internet? Well, they … uhm… well there was tv and board games. You had to do stuff using pen (as opposed to an ink-cartridge) and paper. And I think you physically went to a store to buy stuff. But seriously, the World Wide Web (does anyone call…