Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
This is how you might see this site (if you had Protanope color blindness). Vischeck allows you to submit a URL to see what it looks like to color blind people of three different types of conditions see when they see your site. Here’s what UtterlyBoring.com looks like in Deuteranope, and this in Tritanope. My site’s pretty readable in all of them, but it does show me what folks do go through with those conditions.
Thanks to Rick for the link.
Net yourself $750 if you tell the best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) PMS Story. Contest page here. This and the previous couple links from Mike’s list.
The Orgulator is a silly little browser toy that allows you to play with the colors, size, and blur, smash, and do other fun things with any Web site. It requires MSIE 5.5+ to work, as it uses MSIE-specific DHTML stuff (if you try in something else, you’ll get this page). It also doesn’t work on any site that uses frame break out code (like mine) to prevent people from framing your site. That was a problem a while ago for me as somebody framed my site in an invisible frame, and then sent pop-ups flying out of that invisible frame. I might remove that code at some point, but I’m just keeping it there for now.
Fix those annoying pics of friends and family being grumpy, old, or just plain ugly with FaceFilter.
…our tape drive here at work finally bit the dust — a good HP DLT 30 SCSI tape drive. The LEDs are going bonkers, and everything I find on the Web says there’s a hardware failure if that persists. And it’s persisting, making a whole bunch of nasty noises.
Lovely.
Anybody have a DLT tape drive they want to get rid of? Can you get it to me yesterday 😉 ? I just need to convince the bosses here that we need to a) invest in a GOOD tape solution, or b) use an offsite backup provider, otherwise, this will be all too common (it’s the 2nd tape drive that’s busted since I’ve been here). Apparently our data isn’t important enough to invest in a good backup plan.
OK, done ranting, carry on…
…could be famous on national TV for their ability to blow up balloons with their nose.
Evan nearly gets duped by a well-done PayPal scam. This one is nasty, and luckily he didn’t get screwed.
I’ve been a customer with Ventures Online for several years. While they may not be the cheapest host out there, their support and expertise is top notch.
Upon my “every couple of days” rounds to their forums, I came across this post. Chad Keep, one of their Tier-III (meaning *nix and Web hosting stud) tech died last week. He was suffering from serious migraines that were hampering his ability to function.
His death is sad, and he’ll be missed, but what’s even more interesting was his “suicide note,” (or goodbye post, or whatever) of sorts. He had posted a hidden entry on his LiveJournal blog that came to light after his death. Update: Chad’s blog is here, along with his last post.
Karin, a friend of mine at VO who has worked with Chad, has a category about her experiences with him over the last couple weeks. She’s also trying to deal with all of this, as well as document as much of the knowledge that Chad has shared with him.
I didn’t know him as well as some, beyond my dealings with him on my host’s HelpDesk, but I knew his skills, and he will be sorely missed.
I’ve lasted a whole 5.6 seconds. Man, I suck. Link via Waxy’s Links.