A genuine Silicon Valley Web Flyer | One line of code at a time...

Category Archives: Reference

A CSS trick blog

June 11, 2008 – 3:59 pm

As a technical producer at CNET, I spend a lot of time updating and improving markup. As time goes on, I learn little CSS tricks here and there to make sites look good in all browsers. I always thought it would be a good idea to have a web coder’s strategy guide, but I never [...]

By me | Also posted in Blogging, CSS, Community, Design | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Learn SEO from a Google webmeister

May 29, 2008 – 2:44 pm

Google is the first place many people go first when opening a web browser. It’s fast, reliable, and accurate. Search engine optimization could be the special sauce that makes or breaks your website. So let’s learn a little SEO from Google. Maile Ohye will be our driver.
Crawling
When you create a website, make it accessible without [...]

By me | Also posted in Advice, Ajax, Code, Google, Internet, Programming, SEO, Search, Semantics, Standards, Web 3.0, YouTube, flash | Comments (5)

And then there were eight

July 3, 2007 – 1:22 am

25 years of media mergers, from GE-NBC to Google-YouTube.
This image shows how only a few big corporations control the media.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, Free Press

By me | Also posted in Advertising, Disney, Entertainment, GE, Google, History, Microsoft, Money, New Media, News Corp, Social Media, Time-Warner, Timeline, Viacom, Yahoo! | Comments (1)

UNIX: Password Smarts

May 17, 2007 – 9:58 pm

From UNIX For Dummies:
Like every UNIX user, you should have a password. You can get along without a password only under these circumstances:

You keep the computer in a locked, windowless room to which you have the only key, and it’s not connected to any network.

You don’t mind whether unruly 14-year-olds borrow your account and randomly [...]

By me | Also posted in Books, Computers, Information, Instructions, Knowledge, Passwords, Programming, Security, UNIX | Comments (0)

Excited for the Encyclopedia of Life

May 13, 2007 – 10:59 am

TechCrunch reports that the EOL will focus on more science-related articles than Wikipedia, especially relating to living species.

This looks like it has a lot more interactivity than Wikipedia, and it also outlines main categories inside articles. I am excited to see how this site will grow in the future.

By me | Also posted in Commentary, Future, Knowledge, Links, Nature, Science, Video, YouTube | Comments (0)

Google wasting time in Q2?

April 2, 2007 – 7:25 pm

Every year, Google does something silly for April Fools Day. This year they offered to print and ship all of your Gmail, and even touted a free wireless LAN service through your toilet on their home page.

Today, they counterbombed Yahoo by promoting their new “Infinity plus one” unlimited mail storage.
This is all very new [...]

By me | Also posted in Apple, Blogging, Commentary, Controversy, Google, Internet, Links, Music, Networking, News, Software, TechCrunch, Technology, Yahoo!, iTunes, mp3 | Comments (0)