Pray that he dies, that is. Link from BBspot.
Month: August 2003
Find Font by Sight
OK, this is now on my bookmarks as one of my handy design tools. Have you ever looked at a design, and wondered what typeface it was? Or, in my case, I was looking at a design I did a LONG time ago, but no longer had the digital copy handy, so I didn’t know what typeface it was. Lockergnome’s Windows Daily came to the rescue with a great tool. Answer twelve simple questions about your mystery typeface, and there’s a good chance it’ll be able to identify your font.
Finally have SSL working at the office
After two-weeks of telling the folks at InstantSSL telling me the firewall at work was at fault, and me spending the entire two weeks telling them that my firewall isn’t at fault, they finally got onto the server themselves, and lo-and-behold, they screwed up. But it took them 48 hours to figure out how they screwed up. And it was what I was telling them all along: The root and trusted certs they sent me were screwed up, or the cert they generated for me was generated based on the wrong trust.
Sure enough, it was a combination of all of the above. Regardless, it’s working now, but feel free to tell me if you can’t get to this URL (or check out our office’s Web cam, if you’d like) with it being a trusted, nice, and happy SSL site.
.htaccess problems
For some reason, my .htaccess file has been owned by root, so I can’t edit it. So if you go to www.utterlyboring.com without the trailing slash my image-protection will kick in. I wanted to go in and fix that, but it’s getting blocked. Needless to say, if you’re having image troubles, just ignore them for a bit. Thanks :-).
Jack Ass dies
The former Robert Craft, the man who changed his legal name to Jack Ass in 1997 and founded the Hearts Across America campaign that encouraged people to put up big red “healing hearts” along highways, has himself died. This is the same guy who sued MTV for defamation of character a while back.
Woman survives accident that imbedded nail in her brain
She’s recovering fine, but check out these x-rays.
Computers are making their way into every classroom
But teachers still don’t know how to a) Use them, or b) incorporate them into lessons. Most of them just sit there. Full Story.
Thought nobody would know about your penis enlarger pill purchases?
A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something from a spammer?
An order log left exposed at one of Amazing Internet Products’ websites revealed that, over a four-week period, some 6,000 people responded to e-mail ads and placed orders for the company’s Pinacle herbal supplement. Most customers ordered two bottles of the pills at a price of $50 per bottle.
That’s some serious cash, and the number one reason spam will never go away: While it annoys us all beyond belief, it still makes money for folks.
Please may we delete this page
“My name appears in google search because of it.” (nevermind that his phone number is right on the bottom of the page as well).
You can reduce glare-related eyestrain by reducing glare
Thanks for telling us, 3M (see the right side of the page). Link via NTK.