Monthly Archives: March 2005
Topography of Ireland
Here’s a very large 3293×4168 topographical map of Ireland. It’s huge!
Here’s how they did it.
This is where I live!
What Age Do You Act?
Blogthings – What Age Do You Act? – it almost got my age, it was only out by a year!
How to improve the Google ranking of your portfolio site
The other Martin Taylor provides a short article on how to increase the visibility of your photo portfolio on Google. All basic stuff, but if you don’t know ’em they’re invaluable!
The Interactive Web
Ajax or XMLhttpRequest using applications still have a long way to go. Gmail is more definitely the most advanced and best such app. Here’s some discussion on the subject:
- QuirksBlog: Ajax, promise or hype?
- About “Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs”
- Applied Ajax
- Usable XMLHttpRequest in Practice
- AJAX and Accessibility
(Strange – several blogs listed and none have trackbacks that I can see!)
Tricks of the Trade
Tricks of the Trade – Professional secrets from those in the know.
Another 302 redirect trick
Show Google one page, but when someone searches and clicks on the first link (remove the “_”, I’m not feeding them free ad clicks) the browser is sent off to an adfarm adclick script and finally to another site.
Visit the above site using wget, links or lynx and it won’t redirect!
SSIA – taxing forms
I heard on the news at the weekend that a form will have to be filled out and signed at least 3 months prior to the SSIAs maturing. If not, then (I think) all the profit made on the account will be taxable(including the generous 25% top-up that made the scheme a must-have for every Irish resident!)
Revenue have published instructions on their site so go look at them.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to sign anything until at least 2006, and your bank should send you out the form!
Camerapedia.org
Lovely! Camerapedia.org is a Camera encylopedia! See their page on the Sony F717 (still being repaired – two weeks without a camera, how have I survived?)
Got there via photobloggies and Mark Hancock. BTW – Vote for him in the photojournalism section!
Tracking external links with AJAX
Is there no end to this guy’s talent? Kae came up with a way of tracking hits to external links that only requires you include some javascript, and that adds an onclick() event to each link on your page! I’ll be pumping that into WPMU as soon as I can!
This webmaster world thread discusses the effect lots of 302 redirects is having on Google. I’m trying to figure out if my 302 redirects is having the same affect. 🙁