Yostivanich

“High­light­ing exem­plary exam­ples of code writ­ten by fine programmers.”

Twit­ter is being led by the “biggest social retards in the world”.

“So Palin is sug­gest­ing that the AP’s effort to fact-check her book — some­thing a news orga­ni­za­tion has a jour­nal­is­tic duty to do if it’s going to report on it — means that it is some­how ignor­ing the sto­ries of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s trial and Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s asso­ci­a­tions? Sorry, but… where’s the link?”

“Most women should start reg­u­lar breast can­cer screen­ing at age 50, not 40, accord­ing to new guide­lines released Mon­day by an influ­en­tial group that pro­vides guid­ance to doc­tors, insur­ance com­pa­nies and pol­icy makers.”

“Now a group of such com­pa­nies, orga­nized under the aus­pices of the Inter­net Archive, has formed a non-profit entity to hold URL-shortening data­bases in escrow, with the intent of con­tin­u­ing to resolve a mem­ber company’s links should it get out of the busi­ness. At announce­ment, the 301Works orga­ni­za­tion has 21 URL-shortener mem­bers, includ­ing the largest, bit.ly. Many oth­ers are not (yet) on board. The mem­bers have agreed to cede con­trol of their domain names to 301Works.org should they exit the field, and to back up their URL map­pings reg­u­larly to the organization.”

“A Zam­bian news­pa­per edi­tor was acquit­ted Mon­day on charges of dis­trib­ut­ing obscene mate­ri­als with the intent of cor­rupt­ing pub­lic morals, a case filed against her after she sent pho­tos of a woman in child­birth to gov­ern­ment offi­cials and other promi­nent fig­ures. Many media advo­cates in Zam­bia and through­out the world con­sid­ered the arrest of Chansa Kab­wela, news edi­tor of The Post, to be an assault on press free­dom. The news­pa­per and the gov­ern­ment of Pres­i­dent Rupiah Banda have been at log­ger­heads about alle­ga­tions of pub­lic corruption.”

“The tran­script of Mr. Bierfeldt’s record­ing shows that the offi­cers, evi­dently unaware that Mr. Bier­feldt was record­ing the ses­sion, threat­ened Mr. Bier­feldt with fed­eral arrest for declin­ing to account for the cash. Mr. Bier­feldt kept ask­ing politely whether he was legally required to answer. This intran­si­gence irri­tated the offi­cers. It is not ille­gal, by the way, to carry a large amount of cash while trav­el­ing. (The law does require cash amounts over $10,000 to be declared on inter­na­tional trips.) And as the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union argued in a law­suit filed in June against the T.S.A. in the Bier­feldt case, screen­ers exceeded their author­ity in detain­ing him and demand­ing expla­na­tions once Mr. Bier­feldt had cleared stan­dard check­point secu­rity inspection.”

“Unlike Word­Press 2.8, which Mark Jaquith describes as the Snow Leop­ard of Word­Press since most of the basis of the Word­Press 2.8 upgrade was com­plete rewrites and opti­miza­tion of the infra­struc­ture that ran Word­Press instead of pro­vid­ing lots of new fea­tures in the same way Apple’s new OS X release is a focus on improved per­for­mance instead of fea­tures, Word­Press 2.9 brings major new “bling” to the table. As a reminder of Word­Press 2.8, you can see the writeup that Jonathan Ding­man brought us last time around.”

“You’re sur­prised? I told you, I told you, I told you. So, to those who feel crushed at the moment, there could be an appeal, I sup­pose. And if you want free­dom for your code, you cer­tainly can find it on Planet Earth. Look in the right direc­tion. You’ll be happy you did, because you can hack away to your heart’s con­tent, and it’s per­fectly legal. The court’s mes­sage is clear: EULAs mean what they say; if you don’t want to abide by its license, leave Apple’s stuff alone.” Not surprised.

“Three promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tives warned in a joint state­ment against Repub­li­can “scare­mon­ger­ing” on Guan­tanamo Bay detainees, say­ing the prison in Thom­son, Illi­nois would be fine to han­dle them.”

“call it the “Domain Game.” Now days it can be almost impos­si­ble to select a domain name for your business’s web­site. When I get a project, many times the client will give me a list of ten or more pos­si­ble domain names, and I have to respect­fully sug­gest that they make me another list of ten after I have explained to them my tips for select­ing a good domain name. Many times they are too long, too hard to spell, or just too generic. Another big issue these days is the buy­ing up of domain names. Many times you can­not even get your company’s name, because they have been bought up by peo­ple to sell the domain later at a higher price.”

“172 final coun­try flag icons which ren­dered at 256×256, 128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 24×24, 16×16 pix­els and for­mats are png, ico and icns.”

“Besides Turn off the lights fea­ture I explained ear­lier, YouTube has more great stuff. I believe that you noticed “change view” fea­ture which allows you to switch between nor­mal and wide mode and thus expand/shrink movie area. I like this fea­ture because in dif­fer­ent cir­cum­stances, I need a dif­fer­ent view. But the thing I like the most is that, although lay­out changes, it is done seam­ingly and all the infor­ma­tion remains eas­ily accessible.”

“In the hands of chil­dren and tweens, today’s cell phones are pri­mar­ily used as text mes­sag­ing devices, cam­eras, gam­ing con­soles, video view­ers, MP3 play­ers, and inci­den­tally, as mobile phones via the speaker capa­bil­ity so their friends can chime in on the call. Par­ents are get­ting dialed in to the social media phe­nom­e­non and begin­ning to understand—and limit—how chil­dren use new media.”

Tro­jan­Horse for real.

“In sum­mary, Almon was 20 feet away, hold­ing only a pocket knife, which he imme­di­ately gave up when he real­ized the two offi­cers were police. Cat­tabriga was with another offi­cer, both were car­ry­ing both hand­guns and tasers, and they were fol­low­ing Almon. But it was Offi­cer Cat­tabriga who appar­ently feared for his safety.”

A Star Edi­tor takes on the memo fir­ing edi­tors at the paper, and kicks but.

What do you exper­i­ment with.

“Media Mat­ters for Amer­ica has doc­u­mented numer­ous false­hoods in Sarah Palin’s mem­oir, Going Rogue: An Amer­i­can Life. Below is a list of what we’ve found so far.”

“The Supreme Court is stay­ing out of a dis­pute in Miami between school offi­cials and civil lib­er­tar­i­ans over a book about Cuba that depicts smil­ing chil­dren in com­mu­nist uni­forms but avoids men­tion of prob­lems in the coun­try. The jus­tices on Mon­day rejected an appeal from the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union of Florida that sought to pre­vent Miami offi­cials from remov­ing the book “Vamos a Cuba” and its English-language ver­sion, “A Visit to Cuba,” from library shelves.”

“Pro­fan­ity it offends me.”

“Per­haps in a sign of how the plague of social media has numbed us all to the value of legit­i­mate human con­nec­tions, the New Oxford Amer­i­can Dic­tio­nary has picked the verb “unfriend,” or “to remove some­one as a ‘friend’ on a social net­work­ing site such as Face­book,” as its 2009 Word of the Year.”

“When you’re elbows-deep in apply­ing visual tweaks to your HTML email design, it’s very easy to for­get how impor­tant writ­ing qual­ity, punchy copy can be. Tai­lor­ing email copy to your audi­ence is not a mat­ter of ensur­ing your mes­sage is read­able even with images turned off, but pre­sent­ing it in a style that your read­ers will respond to. In this post we’ll high­light some con­sid­er­a­tions when writ­ing effec­tive email copy, includ­ing tone, per­son­al­ity, keep­ing it con­cise, offer­ing value to the reader and testing.”

“China has become one of a hand­ful of nations to own one of the top five super­com­put­ers in the world.”

“World lead­ers at a food sum­mit on Mon­day ral­lied around a new strat­egy to fight global hunger and help poor coun­tries feed them­selves, but failed to pledge funds sought by the U.N. The sum­mit approved its final dec­la­ra­tion dur­ing its first hours in a show of broad con­sen­sus. Coun­tries pledged to sub­stan­tially increase aid to agri­cul­ture in devel­op­ing nations, so that the world’s 1 bil­lion hun­gry can become more self-sufficient. The sum­mit did not com­mit to a spe­cific fig­ure of $44 bil­lion a year for agri­cul­tural aid that the U.N. Food and Agri­cul­ture Orga­ni­za­tion says will be nec­es­sary in the com­ing decades.”

“In an effort to cut condi­ment expenses and address the glut­tony, waste, and utter lack of self-restraint exhib­ited by Amer­i­cans, offi­cials from the fast food indus­try announced Mon­day a new pol­icy pro­hibit­ing all cus­tomers from dis­pens­ing their own ketchup. “We thought our patrons were respon­si­ble enough to han­dle a self-service ketchup pump,” said McDonald’s CEO James A. Skin­ner, who claimed that fast food indus­try lead­ers were par­tially to blame for over­es­ti­mat­ing the matu­rity of the Amer­i­can public.”

“The court ruled that two arti­cles in the city’s civil code that say only peo­ple of dif­fer­ent sexes can get mar­ried are ille­gal. The court deci­sion applies only to Buenos Aires. Same-sex unions in most of the rest of Argentina remain illegal.”

“Blue­print is a CSS frame­work, which aims to cut down on your devel­op­ment time. It gives you a solid foun­da­tion to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sen­si­ble typog­ra­phy, use­ful plu­g­ins, and even a stylesheet for printing.”

“Rupert Mur­doch has said he will try to block Google from using news con­tent from his com­pa­nies. The bil­lion­aire told Sky News Aus­tralia he will explore ways to remove sto­ries from Google’s search indexes, includ­ing Google News. Mr Murdoch’s News Corp had pre­vi­ously said it would start charg­ing online cus­tomers across all its websites.”

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Inter­net Explorer — the bane of most web devel­op­ers’ exis­tence. Up to 60% of your devel­op­ment can be wasted just try­ing to squash out IE spe­cific bugs which isn’t really a pro­duc­tive use of your time. In this tuto­r­ial, you are going to learn about the most com­mon IE bugs and ren­der­ing dis­par­i­ties and how to eas­ily squash them or deal with them.”

“Although Lou Dobbs has been say­ing that his depar­ture from CNN was an “ami­ca­ble part­ing on the best of terms,” the New York Post reports that CNN wanted him gone so badly that it gave him an $8 mil­lion sev­er­ance package.”