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Gzipping your CSS with PHP

Picasa 2

"Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized."

IE6 Fix

"The duplicate characters bug, as reported on by PIE, is a very odd bug, and specific to only IE6 on Windows (IE5.5 and lower are unaffected). This example, however, doesn't have anything to do with comments or elements with display: none declared; the can be done with pure CSS."

If you use .htaccess files for your authentication or for that matter if you use apache for your user authentication (to password protect directories), you will be using the <Limit> directive. I always used the GET access restriction (<Limit GET>) but as I have found through the development of my firefox blogging tool, that this allows non-authenticated users to POST to a script in the password protected directory…. Not very clever really. What you have to do is use <Limit GET POST> and you will be prompted for both GET and POST requests. You can read more about the <Limit> directive in the apache docs. That's enough learning for me today….feet up.

Worm hijacks open source database – ZDNet UK News

"Security experts have warned that thousands of MySQL servers around the world could be press-ganged into launching a denial-of-service attack that could bring down the Web site of a company the size of Microsoft."

stock.xchng – about us

“Stock.XCHNG was launched in February 2001, as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now – there are about 200.000 registered users and more than 100.000 photos online! “

The perils of using XHTML properly | 456 Berea Street

"The perils of using XHTML properly"

HSBC Bank plc: Website Accessibility: Improving Visibility on the Web

They have an accessibility page but even that can't be viewed properly.. in a graphical browser! (Firefox of course)

GIANT AntiSpyware Spyware Research Center – Spyware Trends and Analysis

"On December 16, 2004, Microsoft announced its acquisition of GIANT Company Software, Inc., a provider of top-rated anti-spyware and Internet security products. Microsoft will use the acquisition to provide its customers with new tools to help protect them from the threat of spyware and other deceptive software."