The Intarweb

An Open Letter to Google

by Mike on 5/7/2006

in The Intarweb, The Joy of Tech

Dear Google, Sitting here in front of my laptop with browser windows open all over the place and hot-key access to all your features, I am completely and utterly smitten. No other search engine does for me what you do, from the quality of your results to the modifiers that let me customize my search [...]

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Speaking of Spam…

by Mike on 4/13/2006

in Good for a Laugh, Spam: Digital Plague or Pure Evil? Discuss., The Intarweb

I just got e-mail pitching various medications from a dude named “Interstellar D. Sawdust.” Isn’t that what became of Alderaan?

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Everyone’s Favorite Canned Email Providers

by Mike on 4/10/2006

in Spam: Digital Plague or Pure Evil? Discuss., The Intarweb

Michael S. Cox is a spammer. You can tag it too: Michael S. Cox UPDATE: But wait, there’s more! Now Cox is threatening to sue Dori and Tom despite the fact that, to all appearances, he’s got no case.

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CSS Frustrations and a Solution

by Mike on 3/18/2006

in CSS: Completely Screwed Stylesheets, The Intarweb, Webloggia

The other day I suggested to Dineen that she have a professional web site apart from whatever her firm puts up. Smacking my forehead, I realized that I should do that as well. So I did. After the site was largely finished, I did a quick check on MSIE 5 on Dineen’s PC. Busted. DIV [...]

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What’s a Tera-Barrel?

by Mike on 1/30/2006

in Cold Hard Cash, First We Kill All the Lawyers, Never Underestimate the Power of Human Stupidity, Possibly Abrasive, The Intarweb

Recall my post the other day about “ink by the barrel“? That post was more prescient than my football picks. Tiff’s story got picked up by the Consumerist, Instapundit, and Doc Searls. She’s gotten more eyeballs in three days than I’ve gotten total since I started blogging more than six years ago. And 90% of [...]

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Ink by the Barrel

by Mike on 1/27/2006

in Never Underestimate the Power of Human Stupidity, The Intarweb

There’s an old saying, Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. I don’t know the original author, but it sounds like Mark Twain to me. Now imagine that the ink-buyers in question are a pack of howling-mad bloggers. Their ink is free, you see. They can just keep writing, and [...]

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Front Page Redesign

by Mike on 1/11/2006

in The Intarweb, Webloggia

The front page has a new look and a whole bunch more functionality. It used to be a menu and nothing more; now the menu is moved to the side to allow for all kinds of content. The page now features: The latest headlines from this weblog A short description of the page My recent [...]

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Kinja, Rejiggered

by Mike on 12/21/2005

in The Intarweb, Webloggia

I’m in what seems to be a tiny minority when I say that I use Kinja as my primary newsfeed reader. I’ve preferred it to other methods for a few reasons. First, I like that it’s web-based. I read weblogs and news sources from at least three different systems: my laptop, my desk-bound monstrosity at [...]

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Apple’s Web Standards Heresy

by Mike on 12/13/2005

in Apple Fetish, The Intarweb, The Joy of Tech, Webloggia

When I code up a new web page, I frequently rely on the world’s largest repository of CSS reference materials – tha Intarweb. This evening I was Googling for techniques on using CSS to pin a footer at the bottom of a web page, I stumbled across the following article at, of all godforsaken places, [...]

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