Give me GOOD HTML snippets please!

Like many blog owners I have a few HTML snippets linking to other sites. For example, everyone and their dog seems to have their own EC drop page nowadays, and in order to be included on it, they want you to paste up a little banner. Topsites and bloglists also have little banners. . . . → Read More: Give me GOOD HTML snippets please!

fb_xd_fragment Facebook Bugfix

My server suddenly logged a rash of weird requests with something like ?fb_xd_fragment= in the URL. This is not good, because if you try this manually it renders a blank page, and blank pages are BAAAAAAAD! So upon googling I found it’s a bug with new Facebook API and (you guessed it) . . . → Read More: fb_xd_fragment Facebook Bugfix

Tech Support (if only)

This XKCD was too good not to holler about. He just keeps crankin’ em out! And best of all, she’s a girl! . . . → Read More: Tech Support (if only)

AdBlock Plus Breaks Google Adsense

I hate doing Google Adsense. I actually hate doing anything even remotely connected with internet money grubbing, because I have to crawl out of playful mode and face the upleasant reality that degenerate stupid things make money and fun interesting things don’t. As a result of extreme laziness I had let my . . . → Read More: AdBlock Plus Breaks Google Adsense

Google Voice “Call Me” Widget

One number to rule them all
I have just enabled Google Voice. So now you can call me without knowing my phone number. Now the benefits of being anonymous and invisible will truly come home to roost. Were I Scoble or somebody important, I could not post this widget in public because it would . . . → Read More: Google Voice “Call Me” Widget

Ms. Burrows’ Mapworks WordPress Plugin

My friend Jillian Burrows just released a MapWorks plugin for wordpress and this is just me trying it out. I think it is just a question of shortcode and perhaps it installs a graphic in the public page to enable you to get more information. You can read the README just as well as . . . → Read More: Ms. Burrows’ Mapworks WordPress Plugin

Please Excuse our mess

I upgraded from my own home brewed wordpress mu to 3.0 RC3 with multi. They implement multi in fundamentally differenent ways than I did, and I needed to also move some other non blog projects on the dorkage domain around. Needless to say, there will be a few glitches and I don’t have . . . → Read More: Please Excuse our mess

New Facebook “Like Button” Dorkage

FaceBook-LogoFacebook, as you may know, is attempting to own a greater share of the web by allowing you to put a facebook “like” button and other social widgets on any web page.   Think what you like about Facebook, their questionable privacy, and their evil plans, but the fact remains that it is the #4 most visited website today and growing.  I’ve just sort of accepted that if someone really wants to they can know pretty much everything I’ve ever done online.  Meanwhile, getting Likes in lots of people’s profiles could be some some potent leverage for me.

I’m not going to reiterate the details.  I’ll just link to them and/or quote them if necessary.  It boils down to this:  There are two ways to do a “Like” button, either insert an iframe in your site (with all the attendant ugliness of iframes), or actually enable your page and use the facebook SDK yourself.
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Testing Google Friend Connect

When Google talks, I at least pay attention. Whether you like them or not, no one can deny that Google has a great deal of KLOUT on the interwebz. This Google Friend Connect thing is the latest scuttlebutt. Of course I have to try it, even though I’m not insanely hopeful that it’s going to do anything for me. Most Google thingies seem to follow the biblical model (paraphrased by me):

To them that hath, more shall be given, and thou that hath not spinneth thy wheels in vain.

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