I saw this in someone’s .sig: “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination
of their C programs.
— Robert Firth ”

Then with lips and teeth, he claimed each realm for Gondor. The fascinating world of Aragorn/Boromir slash.

http://www.vintagelabels.org/ is a cool browse for a rainy Amsterdam summer day.

Via AOL, “As a Texas oilman, President Bush engaged in some of the same kinds of business practices he’s now promising to clean up in response to a wave of corporate scandals.”

Sodami and other Engrish. (Thanks Karen!)

I missed this at the time, read more about the Aurora Australis at the BBC.

Web design ’causes confusion’ is interesting but fails to mention that sometimes it’s the users you have to worry about. I was in an internet cafe yesterday, and a guy next to me asked me to help him get to hotmail. Apparently he didn’t know he could type a url into the location bar.

Tonight I found out that vicnet have changed their formmail setup. I haven’t tested the forms since at least March, so I hate to think how much hate mail I’ve missed out on. Bugger.
Anyway, I’ve fixed it now and you can send me hate mail again! Or love letters, if you really must. I’ve still got to fix up the address that appears on the rest of the site.

http://www.508compliant.com/tools.htm are three bookmarklets that help test your site for accessibility by turning off stylesheets, making the page greyscale or showing images without alt tags.

My L’Espion is still playing up. Maybe I should have got this StyleCam instead, except that it doesn’t have support for Macs or Linux.