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Archive for October, 2005

Changes (Some of them ugly)

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I’m playing around with my design right now…so sorry about the mess. This is what is known as a “live re-design”! Ok, I’m done. I’m going to live with this design for a little while and see how it settles. Ok, now I’m really done…until I spot something else that bugs me…

Referral Spam

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Since installing Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer earlier this month, the referral spam I was accumulating has dwindled to almost nothing! As you can expect, I am very happy about this because my log files were filling up with stuff I don’t want to mention. At any rate, I am unsure if I am unintentionally blocking legitimate [...]

ASP.NET DataGrid Caption Element

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

ASP.NET 1.1 can generate accessible tables through DataGrid server control. This is not breaking news, but I want to put this out there because I had so much difficulty finding it. MS released a hotfix which made it possible to comply with Section 508. The new DataGrid properties are UseAccessibleHeader, Caption, and CaptionAlign. UseAccessibleHeader is [...]

Why does my media link open a page full of gobbledygook?

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Ever click on a link to a media file, like an mp3, and get a page full of gobbledygook? [screenshot] The most common cause of this is that the MIME type for the file is not configured on the server. The server must tell the browser what type of file it is sending otherwise the [...]

Spilling Poetry Still Online

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

In the late 90′s I was in a band called Flywater Washington with Scott Crader, Tim Schoenhals, and Alan Adams. One of our favorite “rival” bands based in Lubbock, Texas was Spilling Poetry. They disbanded in 2000, but remain one of my favorite original bands of all time. They were incredibly prolific during the six [...]