Archive for November 2nd, 2005

WordPress Upgrade Ramblings

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Web Applications. 1 Comment

Dr Dave » Blog Archive » WordPress Upgrade available for Download

As I just lengthily explained, I have very little love for corporate hierarchies and all the folklore that goes with it. Ironically, the ostensibly “free” world of major Open-Source development never fails to irk me in the exact same way…

A quite entertaining post about corporate B.S., opensource software, and more — written by the man who brought you SpamKarma (a neat Wordpress Plugin that prevents blog spam, that I’ve luckily so far not had to install yet…)

NOT the guy who made Kubrick as he so humbly pointed out :)

Kubrick being the default Wordpress (the blog system I am using (I’m using a different theme called “China Red” (No this is not related to my taking Chinese (but it’s a cool coincidence)))) theme.

Aaaand, I just finished upgrading my Wordpress setup to 1.5.2, the latest version! Went without a hitch!

Fake vs. True Italics

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Design and Type. 0 Comments

Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook: Fake vs. True Italics
Fake vs. True Italics

How to stop junk fax

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Interest. 0 Comments

Junkfax.org home page: How to stop junk fax
Awesome.

Used to see tons of these at my old workplace, and did a little research on my own, quickly realizing that it was infact illegal to send these so-called “junk faxes”. I started to collect the ones that came to the many office fax machines, but never ended up doing anything with them…

Junkola!

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Funny and Interest. 0 Comments

Junkola! Welcome to Junkola.com - Total Junk Information
GRRRR… It took 3 voicemails on my dorm room fone before I finally was annoyed enough to call these people and get off their list… and I spoke to a real person too! Incredible!

Americor Financial aka The Lending Group - “Paul Matthews” - calls from “OUT OF AREA” / “OUT OF AREA” (or NUM. BLOCKED / NAME BLOCKED ). Call back numbers given: 800-599-0236 x 4010 or 800-599-0235 x 4010

Hello. This is, uh, Paul Matthews with Americor Financial, at one eight hundred, five nine nine, zero two zero six extension four zero one zero. I am calling up, following up on your mortgage application. I got you preapproved at a one point two five interest rate on a thirty year loan. Uh, please call me asap so I can answer, you know, any and all questions before we this into processing. Again, this is Paul Matthews, with Americor Financial, at one eight hundred, five nine nine, zero two zero six extension four zero one zero. Thanks. (sound of phone hangup)

CSS Help Pile

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Collection of the best CSS resources on the Internet.

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Brain sees with more than just the eyes

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Scientists zapped the brains of healthy volunteers and shut down the Visual Cortex. The volunteers stared at a computer screen during this moment of blindness - all nine of them said they’d seen nothing each time. When asked to guess what they’d seen, however, those who’d been shown a dot guessed its color right in 81 percent of the cases.

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