Don't Back Down

I admit it. I wasn't paying any attention, and while trying to figure out that invoice in my inbox, I clicked on the link from the email and logged into the service. My eyes didn't even notice the strange URL in the address bar until after I clicked the "submit" button. Whoops. Looks like someone went phishing and caught something. I hate it when I don't pay attention. Last time it happened I received the first speeding ticket (or ticket of any kind) that I had received in quite a while. This time I gave up my user name (not that that is difficult for anyone to guess) and password.

Read "I Hate Phishing" »

I find it interesting that people are so quick to jump on something these days. For instance, I've been helping the folks at Broadband Mechanics put together a plugin to allow for structured blog content (creatively named Structured Blogging).

True to form, we get an entry on the MT forums about how the (Movable Type) platform is lagging in new features and if that doesn't change, options will need to be reconsidered.

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Everyone knows the government spends a ridiculous amount of money on fighting "terrorism" and it doesn't really do much. Do you feel safer knowing the government is on the job? I sure don't. I'm ticked that they introduce delays, close down access and generally make life more difficult, all while putting our country deeper in debt and accomplishing absolutely nothing.

Read "Money for Nothing" »

I use remote desktop (terminal services) quite a bit. I also regularly use other remote access methods such as PCAnywhere or VNC. As such, I'm almost always greeted by the default wallpaper when logging onto a PC. Much of this is courtesy of Dell, but others do it too. Yet I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it.

Read "Changing the Default Windows Wallpaper" »

The comment redirection I'm doing doesn't work with Movable Type out of the box. The problem is that you can return either to the page that submitted the comment (static == 1) or to the comment listing (static != 1). Since I had a pop-up window in the mix, neither really worked all that well.

Read "Javascript Redirect Magic" »

While I'm sure everyone else in the world knows this, apparently in Firefox (at least version 1.5, under Windows XP), you can switch between tabs with your arrow keys. Holy Robin Hood, Batman!

You see, I've been trying to decide if I could do without the LastTab extension since I installed version 1.5 and it was automatically deactivated, and as of now, the answer is "yes!", because I stumbled on this feature by accident (and I haven't seen it documented anywhere).

Read "Firefox Tab Navigation via Keyboard" »

As I was working on a project, I noticed that the page was no longer rendering in IE (6.0, XP). Strangely, the title had turned into just the URL, as if there was none, and the styles were gone.

On a whim, I moved the title attribute above some meta tags, and it jumped right up on the page, indicating an apparent problem within those meta tags. Sure enough, after looking for just a moment, I found a set of double quotes contained within the tag. Oops.

Apparently IE (6.0, XP) doesn't like this. Interestingly enough, IE on a Mac (5.2, I think I was told) and Firefox, on either Mac or PC, interpreted the string correctly.