Pardon the appearance, but we’re currently moving the blog over from the Blogger to the WordPress platform. This is all happening because Blogger is discontinuing it’s Remote FTP Publishing. We’ll post again when this is all done with detailed steps on how we did it and why we chose WordPress over others like MovableType.
Oh and sorry for not making any posts since August, we’ve been busy I guess.
A quick post just to point out the obvious, the blog has a new look. More on this later, but Kenta is to thank for the design.
Enjoy.
Thanks to Google I learned of this scam in response to a printer we’re selling on Craig’s List.
The e-mail I got:
From: bukkybrigth@gmail.comSubject: Re: New Canon PIXMA MX700 Office All-In-One Printer - $120 (Chelsea)Date: April 24, 2009 11:27:16 AM EDTTo: --@firefallpro.com Good to read from you and i believe we can continue on thistransaction because i don't like to beat around the bush and am nothere for games, I am buying this Item for my Spouse located Overseaand i will be responsible for the shipping and handling cost, let meknow how much it will cost you to ship and All you have to do now isto send me a money request for the total amount via paypal for me toconfirm if your account is still active or not or you get back to mewith your paypal registered email account as for me to remit thepayment. Please get back to me as soon as possible if you are stillinterested to further with this transaction.and i will like if you canship the item through Unites State Poster Service InternationalExpress Mail (EMS).... I will be looking forward to read from you. Regards.
I should have e-mailed back something creative, but I sent them a link to the article I found. Maybe they’ll have to vary the copy a little now.
Just letting everyone know that you can get Amazon Prime free for one month (free 2 day shipping) if you haven’t already participated in a Prime trial. If don’t want to be billed the yearly fee at the end of the month go into your settings and disabled the automatic renewal.
What happens when you search for nothing with a search engine? With ChaCha search even nothing relates to something, well at least two links. I wonder what people would do if Google padded search results.
It may be just me, but the name is a little awkward too.
Padded results aside, they do offer a guided search option that has an actual person perform a search for you. They then show you what they feel are the most relevant results. No matter what my query, I don’t believe a Google search has been offended by me, but how impartial is a human filter?
Only way to find out is to give it a try and [ab]use a guide.
As of October 31, 2006, Firefall Pro is now officially an LLC registered within the State of New York.
Thanks to the WebKit team for showing me the error of my ways. I only wish I had known sooner that XHTML sent as text/html is interpreted as HTML. http://webkit.org/blog/?p=68
Given most people’s reaction, and the sheer number of XHTML sites out there being sent incorrectly as text/html, I’d have to wager that I’m not the only misguided individual.
It’s going to take a while to convert my existing pages from XHTML to HTML 4 Transitional.
How hard is it to piss off a hosting company, in this case Network Redux? How about blacklisting a whole class of their IP address without notification or any explanation. Then to top it off, ask for money for removal. Welcome to UCEProtect Network.
I wish I could get a hold of their client list. I’d start a friendly e-mail campaign to educate them, and offer legitimate alternatives.
Microsoft recently released a patch that changes the way Internet Explorer handles ActiveX plugins. This was to dodge patent infringement allegations from Eolas. Even more recently Microsoft released another patch to undo this, but with a promise that it will be permanent in future revisions and most certainly in IE 7, whenever that’s released.
The most important part about this change is that it effects a vast majority of Internet users, and in a rather annoying way. If the patch is applied IE will show a prompt every time it encounters a ActiveX plugin. This means, every Flash file, every QuickTime movie, anything that uses ActiveX controls, will see this alert or at the least require two clicks to activate its interface.
I think it has gone largely unnoticed for several reasons:
1. Many people don’t actually run Windows Update, of if they happen to they only grab the urgent updates and ignore the rest.
2. Some sites may have already implemented workarounds.
3. Developers forget to test in IE.
4. IE/Windows alerts are so frequent that people can’t help but dismiss them without reading.
After a bit of searching I came across a helpful Apple page on how to embed QuickTime into a page without causing these alerts, and as an added bonus the code lets the page validate as XHTML without any ugly hacks.
So much for the object tag being the solution to all problems.