Nifty Snippets

Is it just me? Am I getting old? (Well, yes, but...) Surely 9pt grey text (#646464) on a dark-grey background (#1C1C1C) qualifies as a Bad...

An Australian online retailer has started charging users of IE7 a tax to use the browser on their website. This was inspired, they say, by ...

My Ubuntu system told me today that it was running quite low on room in /boot . I searched around for what to do about that, and found this ...

Finally a normative ECMAScript specification in HTML . Very worthy private efforts notwithstanding ( here , here ), having a normative de...

My good friend Jock Murphy blogged about  this video , where John Cleese spends 36 minutes talking about creativity and telling "how m...

Note : As of late 2015, I don't use Lineage anymore, there's no need. I use the class features of ES2015 (aka "ES6") ins...

Surprisingly, the "code snippet" widget used by the FogBugz wiki feature doesn't support telling the pretty-printer (they'...