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Pimping my blog #2
After observing that most of my visitors (45% currently) use Internet Explorer, I’ve made a little modification so that they to can enjoy the <q> tag. A more detailed discussion and other solutions can be found at the List Apart site. I’ll only present in short my version. My version consists of two parts: a…
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Delaying the loading of elements in a web page
After listening to the latest Practical Webdesign Magazine podcast (I listen to every one of them as well as the Boagworld podcast, both being great podcasts), I felt the urge to write this post :). When you include many third party things in your webpage, the loading of it can be slowed down considerably if…
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The kind of articles I don’t want to see
After reading this article I was in pain. I don’t want to offend anybody, but this is a perfect example for the things against which this blog was created. The article contains a lot of hype-words but is vague on technical details and some of the details is wrong. I don’t want to accuse anybody…
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The state of affairs in Romanian education
One of the regular podcasts I listen to is Casting From the Server Room. It’s guys who work in IT / SysAdmin jobs in the education (colleges, high-schools, etc). I usually listen for the technical content, but I can also catch a glimpse about the state of education in the US. Usually they complain, but…
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Why do I love perl?
Before you accuse me of being a fanboy, I must say that I know that every language has bad sides, but also some incontestable merits. I want to talk about two perl related stories here. They both are a kind of short how-tos, and the morale of the story is that you can find ready…
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Best. Quote. Ever.
(or at least until I find a better one 🙂 ) Discovered with the help of digg. All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not…
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A little guess game
I was browsing through the Top 100 companies to work for 2006 published by the local version of the international Capital newspaper and it amazes me how unrepresentative it is. So lets play a little guess game. What’s wrong with the following pictures? (aside from the fact that they were taken with a cheap webcam…
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Economics, protecting the environment and Web 2.0
What do these things have in common? During the weekend I was at at a conference of economics (weird, isn’t it?) and one of the presenters talked about how we must look at the economics if we want to achieve a given goal, for example protecting the environment. For example currently the computer manufacturing companies…
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Pimping my blog
As you can tell I’ve been tweaking my blog a little last week. I’m still new to the production side of blogging (as oposed to the consumption side) so surely I’ll make lot of changes in the future. The changes I’ve made until now are: Added a picture which is representative of me Converted my…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #60
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Here I am again, with a little delay because I was away on a conference of economics over the weekend, but I’ll cover that in a later post. This netcast started out very nicely, and I was hoping that I won’t have to write this…