Well…my first blog post was on 02/20/04 01:51 am so I missed the official birthday by a few days, but close enough right?
Month: February 2006
The Superbrowser – Firefox with 100 Extensions
The Superbrowser – Firefox with 100 Extensions
Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment. My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions. Currently 1148 extensions are available at Mozilla update. I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time…
Someone with just a little bit too much free time…
Google Links and Google Calendar
Google Links and Google Calendar
I was bored and so nosed around the source of Gmail and I found some code refering to bookmarks/links – the resulting page says:
Nothing too fancy here, I thought. Just links to other Google Services: Blogger, orkut, Groups, Image search, etc. But, one of the links you can add is Google CL2 – A calendar for you and the world
A rather interesting find…now we’ll see whenever the hell they actually get around to release into beta (for the next 10 years).
Microsoft Enterprise Feb CTP Released
Brad Goldberg, General Manager of Windows Client Product Management has announced the availability of the enterprise CTP today.
Vista will include new deployment and imaging technologies driving deployment costs down and patching reboots down. Vista is now officially feature complete and we will see a combination of Beta 2 with a CTP in 2Q 2006. General availability targetted for 2nd Half 2006 – exact date depends on quality.
Main points of Vista for the Enterprise:
* Deployment Costs Go down
* Secure and compliant desktop
* Connecting people to information
* Increasing mobile and remote productivity5308 is now available from connect as:
FebCTP_5308_64bit_Main_Staged_DVD.iso, 3,675.94MB
FebCTP_5308_32bit_Main_Staged_DVD.iso, 2,780.79MB
— Via Neowin.net
More information to come soon…I just have to get my hands on this build now… 
Oh, by the way, the build string is 5308.winmain_idx01.060217-2200
Data Mining using Google
Google (and many other search engines) has the ability not only to search on keywords, but also using a more “database-ish” query language to really narrow down your search results. Below is a summary of a few of the most useful lesser known features.
I learned a few new things after reading this, I am sure most people will at least learn something.
CSS PLaY | Puzzling CSS
It’s been a little while since I took a break for ‘normal’ css and turned my mind to trivial puzzles so I have now corrected this and produced the above offering.
This is similar to a previous puzzle where you start off at the bottom center and move, according to which paths are made available, in an attempt to get to the middle grassy square.
Enjoy, I have yet to actually win this game. Let me know if you figure it out.
Live Design – Step by Step Site Creation
Live Design – Step by Step Site Creation
Follow through the steps to watch (and learn) how a site is created using HTML and CSS. Pretty cool stuff.
Textorizer – Vectorise a Picture Using Text Strings
Textorizer – Vectorise a Picture Using Text Strings
This tool takes as input an image in PNG format (left), as well as a text file containing some text, and produces an SVG file which reconstructs the original image using parts of the text scattered around (right). If you’re confused about what to do with the SVG file, download Firefox or Opera which will display them for you.
Fairly useless, but kinda interesting nonetheless. Oh yeah, Warning Firefox will have a heart attack when you try to open some of the SVG images. (at least mine did).
A Plethora of Web Designer Links
A Plethora of Web Designer Links
More links dealing with Web Design than you can shake a stick at *shakes a stick*. 
Random New (maybe) Blog Feature
I haven’t decided how I feel about this one yet…but I thought I’d throw this out there for people to give me there opinions about. Click on the image below to see this feature in action
Wandering the Interwebs 