Monthly Archives: March 2006

Movie Collection

The Matrix
Spider-man
Spider-man 2
Nanny McPhee
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Hitch
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wedding Crashers (doesn’t support fast worwarding … maybe improved with xbmc 2.0)
Old Boy
Crash
History of Violence

Movies to Get in the Future:

Images to Replace Text by CSS

You can use CSS to show images instead of text.
This is is useful because that way you can have a simple HTML document as your primary document, and make all the changes via CSS through an external style sheet.
Basically you define an element, then add the text between them. When you define the element, just [...]

Two Success Stories in “Internet Marketing”

Outside the incestuous pool of “Internet Marketers”, there are actually two great examples of the “Web2.0″ sites which operated on the usual principles — and turning out to work just fine.
The formula appears to be: Captivated interested audience + valued product/service + relevant call action == high dollar value ‘purchase’ x massive conversion == high [...]

Examining CSS on the Web

A way to check out the CSS easily is to do the following:
1. Download the file completely through the firefox browser.
2. Download any extraneous css or image files — sometimes the images files are not downloaded automatically because they are called through the css file.
** use “Flash Got” to manually download all of those files [...]

How they get those curves

Although a lot is made of the trickiness of doing things through tables, it is an involved thing to do curved boxes in CSS.
See the delicious bookmarks for more resources, such as this article on sitepoint.
There are at least two, sometimes three divs (or spans, or classes, or whatever — apparently this article discusses [...]

Click-fraud by Google?

How often does it actually happen?
THe article says that by calculating the percentage payout 90M by the total revenues, its probably less than 1%.
I suppose its a relative account of things, but of course the wider question is how does Google do in actually policing click-fraud?? How well do its engineers and technology do this?? [...]

Family Website — domain registered, and hosting done.

Link: TheHungs.org
I have started a new family website, since a baby is on the way.
That way, the hope is that it will offer more functionality, extensibility, and flexibility (in short, more fun) than a simple “gallery site” for pictures.
Good hosting plan too:
Dreamhost.com –> “777″ code –> $9.95US for one year: 20gigs of [...]