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November 2001 Archives

IE Favorites to XML
Over at Aaronland there is a great Perl module and a script to convert IE...
November 28, 2001 - 79 words, 1 comment

More Strangeness
Another interesting thing is the wacky search terms that people used to find my site...
November 26, 2001 - 54 words

Odd Referers
I’ve been getting some weird refering sites recently. I don’t get why the International Atomic...
November 26, 2001 - 60 words, 1 comment

Actual Size, But It Seems Much Bigger
Seen on the box for a 15 foot artificial Christmas tree: "Contents May Differ...
November 24, 2001 - 36 words

Married Bloggers
On a related note, Erin and Shawn are married and both have blogs. Both blogs...
November 23, 2001 - 33 words

Weblog romance
Charles and Denise both have Weblogs. What’s so interesting about that? Well, they’ve been dating...
November 23, 2001 - 33 words

Lights
I spent much of the day installing Christmas lights. Our house gets a bigger and...
November 23, 2001 - 36 words

RSSBlog 0.92
RSSBlog 0.92 RSSBlog has been updated to version 0.92. One new feature is that it...
November 23, 2001 - 54 words

Freedom
One thing I am thankful for is our freedom as Americans. But in the wake...
November 22, 2001 - 75 words

Addiction
If you are "addicted to cold turkey," how do you quit?...
November 22, 2001 - 13 words

Happy Thanksgiving
For those of you that live in the US, Happy Thanksgiving from my family. Heck,...
November 22, 2001 - 40 words

Charity Junk mail
24-hour drive-thru: "Toys for hurting children in San Diego County." Says Julie: "They want toys...
November 21, 2001 - 19 words

New Monitor
About the only good thing about working for a company that goes under is you...
November 21, 2001 - 37 words

Working from home
Jim Roepcke has a great stream of consciousness article about working at home. I worked...
November 20, 2001 - 34 words

Internet Radio
Despite a MP3 collection that is approaching 30 Gigs, I still like to listen to...
November 19, 2001 - 45 words, 1 comment

TCP/IP for children
The reader reviews of The Story About Ping are hilarious. [via Elegant Hack]...
November 19, 2001 - 14 words

Weird spam
And here I thought the spam I get is weird. Cam’s spam is stranger....
November 19, 2001 - 15 words

Wayback Bookmarklets renamed
New names for the Wayback Machine Bookmarklets: Latest Wayback Archive and Go Wayback....
November 19, 2001 - 14 words

Fun With Spammers
Michael Fraase wrote about his experience with spammers, using one spammer as a representative example....
November 18, 2001 - 246 words

New Server
The server has been moved. It’s going to take a day or two for various...
November 18, 2001 - 64 words

Moving
I’m moving the server that hosts kalsey.com. I probably won’t post any new entries here...
November 17, 2001 - 26 words

Spam Grammar
"Holiday are near, eliminate your debt" If the spammers can’t use decent grammar, why is...
November 15, 2001 - 23 words

The Gratuits
A discussion on the Webloger’s User Group email list brought up the question of what...
November 14, 2001 - 36 words

$5 Million Used Bra
Even though it is encrusted with diamonds, if I were paying $12.5 million for a...
November 11, 2001 - 74 words

RSSBlog update
RSSBlog has been updated. The HTML tags that are used to configure your newsfeed are...
November 11, 2001 - 19 words

New RSS feed
This blog now has an RSS newsfeed. If you use a news aggregator like Radio...
November 10, 2001 - 136 words

TV compession
Apparently there is a device that TV stations can use to shorten a TV show...
November 8, 2001 - 119 words

Pen usability
Robert Scoble has a great point about usability. "[Don Norman] hates the desktop PC and...
November 7, 2001 - 53 words

Free ebooks
Qvadis has created a library with over 5000 free ebooks for Palm OS....
November 7, 2001 - 14 words

Taliban fruits
DAWN: Taliban stocking up on fruit: traders. I guess it’s time to bomb the restrooms,...
November 7, 2001 - 25 words

Auction pricing
An article in NewScientist describes the results of a three-year study into pricing factors in...
November 7, 2001 - 86 words

More XSL tips
On the subject of XSL, Web Developer’s Virtual Library has a huge list of resources,...
November 7, 2001 - 21 words

XSL Introduction
SitePoint has a decent introductory tutorial on XSL. They give a sample document and walk...
November 7, 2001 - 39 words

IIS lockdown
Businesses running IIS as a Web server need to have effective procedures to secure the...
November 7, 2001 - 94 words

Mr. Showbiz gone
"After six years... Mr. Showbiz has retired. We’ve had a lot of fun, and we...
November 6, 2001 - 69 words

Emma for sale
I’m selling Emma, my 67 MGB. I’ll put some pictures and a description of her...
November 6, 2001 - 19 words

CDNow privacy
CDNow’s new privacy policy is simple and to the point. instead of using legalese, they...
November 6, 2001 - 301 words

Kid jokes
I remember when I could say anything silly to my kids and they would laugh....
November 1, 2001 - 37 words

Goth or not
Another Hot Or Not knockoff:Am I Goth Or Not?...
November 1, 2001 - 10 words, 2 comments