Notes
Thoughts and articles covering a range of topics including web design, the internet, music and anything else that comes to mind.
Valid 'Live Earth' Badge Code
19 June 2007
If you haven’t heard of Live Earth, its the latest group of concerts, in the lineage of Live8 and the original Live Aid, raising money for various charity works. This time the main target of the concerts is ‘Climate Change’. Brief introduction over, the Live Earth organisers are asking people to show their support by displaying a Live Earth Badge on their websites or MySpace/Bebo/etc. page. However, for anyone who has taken the time to ensure their website is Web Standards compliant, the code provided for Live Earth Badge (a Flash object) will break that compliance, introducing several validation errors.
Textile Link Titles (Handy for Textpattern Users)
8 June 2007
A chance discovery, which saves me a little time with each article I post, is how to set the link title attribute when using textile to mark up my posts.
In textile, links are formatted as
"Link Text":http://www.some.random.link.org
Dreamhost leaks 3,500 FTP passwords
6 June 2007
Not all that long ago, I was praising Dreamhost for their efforts in ‘going green’, but now comes the news that somehow they’ve leaked 3,500 FTP passwords opening the hosting accounts of many users to a spam attack, with unwanted links being added to the end of many web pages.
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