Category Archives: Web

Random Redesign

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: October 6, 2004
I updated the CSS yesterday to get the current incarnation of the design in place. I had attempted something similar a while ago but the layout was too inconsistent across browsers; this one seems to play nicer. No real reason for the change other the the desire for something different. And it’s fun.
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Design Updates in Progress

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: June 12, 2004
If you know me at all, you know I can’t leave well enough alone, be it rearranging furniture at home or changing design and layout here. I’m tweaking the CSS as I figure out what I want it to do, so if something appears out of place, don’t be suprised.
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Email Spam Poetry

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: March 11, 2004
Perhaps email spammers were inspired by SatireWire‘s Annual Poetry Spam Contest, and have adopted more “creative” tactics for evading spam filters. So far this morning I’ve received 3 emails containing random prose. They’re HTML formatted messages with references to images on domains that don’t currently resolve, so I don’t get to see what they’re selling. [...]
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Mozilla Firebird becomes Mozilla Firefox

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: February 10, 2004
The best browser for Windows has once again changed it’s name. Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is now avaiable for download. Check out the FAQ for an explanation of why they changed, and answers to burning questions like ‘What’s a fire fox?‘. At least the logo is cute. See hicksdesign for a little more on the branding.
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Procrastination

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: January 13, 2004
When I’ve neglected posting for a while, say, a month, you might expect the thing to bring me back would be incredibly insightful or witty. You could imagine the entire time I was gone, time was spent planning and researching something amazing, and my silence would be broken with something that will be worth the [...]
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URL Trick and Too Much Time

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: December 15, 2003
I didn’t think anyone would bother, but someone cared enough to take the time to exploit the SnipSnap referral backlink list that is displayed under each snip. This was done by tweaking a link to this site to add extra markup to the request, creating a referral with additional markup in the URL. When that [...]
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I’m Boba the Fett

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: November 10, 2003
It’s wacky, it’s wrong, but it’s funny… My Backpack’s got jets. I’m Boba the Fett. I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt, to finance my vette. MC Chris‘s Fett’s Vette and lyrics. (Warning: profane and sexually explicit language and material that might disturb small children.)
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Image of the Day

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: September 22, 2003
Well, it was cellar.org‘s Image of the Day for 9/19/2003. The cow pictures from The Farm have made it around apparently :-)
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