December 2004

29 Dec - Amazing tsunami satellite images

Images are from Kalutara, Sri Lanka. See more at DigitalGlobe.

29 Dec - Australian Red Cross raises over $3 million

I donated via their site. The process was fast, easy and very professional, including an emailed PDF receipt. Bravo!

29 Dec - Australia boosts tsunami aid efforts

The Government’s overall contribution to emergency aid in the wake of the tsunami now totals $35 million.

27 Dec - Nick Bradbury’s disaster relief donations

Using a pirated version of TopStyle or FeedDemon? Now might be a good time to buy them!

27 Dec - Asia quake death toll tops 13,000

My prayers go out to everyone affected by this tragedy.

27 Dec - QuirksBlog

PPK has started up a new blog over at QuirksMode.

25 Dec - DJ BC presents The Beastles

Remixing Beastie Boys vocals over Beatles music. Some of it really works!

21 Dec - How can I trust Firefox?

Or… How can I start a flame war?

20 Dec - ASIMO the humanoid robot runs at 3km/h

First they will follow our commands. Then comes the backlash, and finally the destruction of all human life. We will be ASIMOlated.

20 Dec - Hethe Srodawa

Check out the absolutely stunning illustrations in the portfolio section.

20 Dec - When Can We Hide From IE5/Win?

Well, it’s probably safe for me to do it here. Not so sure about commercial sites though.

19 Dec - Web design world cool-down

Molly talks about some of the hot issues and areas of concern she sees for the contemporary web designer.

16 Dec - Joel teaches us how to price software

OK, this is the first time I’ve read an article by Joel. I love his writing style. Really witty and educational at the same time!

16 Dec - Firefox New York Times Ad

Holy crap! That looks totally awesome. They got a double pager too!

16 Dec - 303 Emulator for Commodore 64!

Wow, this sounds really great. Can’t believe people are still writing software for this machine. Link via music thing.

15 Dec - Calling for a new CSS revolution

Daniel, you read my mind. I’m sure I could add quite a few more points to that list too.

15 Dec - Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing

He’s only got one tab open though…

14 Dec - Beta

You can use it, but you get no support.

14 Dec - 10 million Firefox Downloads!

Firefox, the open-source challenger to market heavyweight Internet Explorer, has surpassed 10 million downloads in a little more than a month.

10 Dec - Resizing, Fading DHTML Slideshow Demo

This is very cool! There is also a flash version here.

09 Dec - IBM Sells PC division

Wow… US$650 million in cash and US$600 million in securities. What a bargain!

09 Dec - SimpleBits Style Switching

That’s right kids. I’m not the only one on the block who lets you choose between fixed and fluid.

08 Dec - Blocking RSS advertising

If I really wanted to see ads in my feeds I’d subscribe to your ad feed!

07 Dec - Most Hated Advertising Techniques

Jakob Neilsen’s study on how people react to online advertisements.

07 Dec - Thunderbird 1.0 Released!

Go Grab it…

05 Dec - Beer Logos

For all you beer-loving fans. This is pretty cool although I’m not too sure what you’d do with them.

04 Dec - Image and Text Editor Survey Results

Jon Hicks turns his lazy posts into a survey. No surprises here.

04 Dec - IE market share drops below 90 percent in Europe

David chipping away at Goliath slowly but surely.

03 Dec - IE already breaking the web

Roger Johansson shares his thoughts on Microsoft’s support for web standards.

02 Dec - Firefox on ABC News

The geeks versus the jocks? Since when did Microsoft become the footbal team?

02 Dec - Unbreaking the Web

Eric shares his thoughts on Microsoft and web standards.

02 Dec - Which PHP libraries do you use?

I rarely use any myself, but after reading this I might check a few out.

02 Dec - Mouseover DOM Inspector

This favelet allows you to view the properties of any HTML element on a page. Very useful.

02 Dec - Prevent Drunk Dialing

I’m not sure why you’d need this. If you can use the phone, then you’re obviously not drunk enough.

02 Dec - Thunderbird 1.0 RC

I’ve been using TB for a while now and have been pretty happy with it.

01 Dec - We Own All Your Code

SCO’s site get defaced by hackers with a sense of humour… Well I thought it was pretty funny!

01 Dec - Boxes, Arrows, Results

They were robbed big time! This was easily the best design.

01 Dec - The Evolution of a Programmer

This gave me a good laugh. The last one is brilliant! :)

01 Dec - Flyakite

Turn XP into OS X. For those closet Mac fans who are too poor to buy the real thing.

01 Dec - QuirksMode Bug Report

Dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs.

01 Dec - Outsourced Netscape Merges Firefox, IE

Damn that is one seriously ugly skin. Why oh why are these braindead idiots even using the IE engine?

01 Dec - Firefox Downloads Hit 7.5 Million

Done within a 3 week period! The preview release took 50 days to hit the same number.