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Archive for June, 2005
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June 16th, 2005 at 12:49 amCBC announces new podcasts…
June 14th, 2005 at 2:06 pmI’m not sure if the show is all that interesting, I can’t recall the last time I heard it, but nevertheless, CBC’s Metro Morning will be podcasting ‘a package of the show’s top stories’ every weekday.
TORONTO – Highlights from CBC Radio’s Metro Morning are now available online for fans of the show who want to download interviews and listen to them at their leisure.
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Alt Key Numeric Codes
June 13th, 2005 at 2:14 pmA useful list of Alt Key Numeric Codes. It’s a decent resource to have lying around.
Bookmarklet To Remove noWraps on the ‘digg / digall’ pages at digg.com
June 9th, 2005 at 10:58 amUpdate: This seems to be a bug with Firefox Deer Park Alpha 1, and doesn’t seem to happen on my Firefox 1.0.4 version at home. The issue deals with the divs inside the title# tds. The divs around the description have a style=”width:350″ attribute, but Deer Park doesn’t seem to respond to this value. I dont know if this is a problem with Deer Park or a problem with the style attribute not specifying a unit.
So, in case you haven’t noticed from the recent upswing in blog postings here, I’ve started getting into digg.com. I’ve been following the river of news from digg.com for a while but haven’t been a very active participant until recently.
Anywho, I’ve found the ‘digg / diggall‘ pages to be somewhat unpleasant with the TDs under the ‘title’ column having a noWrap=true property applied to them. So I whipped up a quick bookmarklet to fix the problem.
<a href=”javascript:(function(){ els=document.getElementsByTagName(‘td’); for(i=0;iFix Digg TDs
To use the bookmarklet simply drag it to your bookmarks toolbar / links bar, and click it after loading the digall page.
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CBC Radio 3 begins Podcasting to showcase independent Canadian music
June 9th, 2005 at 10:01 amFans of… independent Canadian music can experience the programming of CBC Radio 3 in a new way – podcasting…. Radio 3′s podcast is truly unique: it’s full of amazing, 100% Canadian music from new and emerging artists. It’s great news for music fans and it’s even better news for independent Canadian musicians.
Hollywood unions reach deal with video game makers
June 9th, 2005 at 9:53 am“Reuters – Hollywood actors unions have reached a contract deal with video game publishers, accepting higher pay instead of the profit-sharing they had demanded, the unions said Wednesday, removing the threat of a strike.”
What’s in a name?
June 8th, 2005 at 3:03 pmSo this is the second time I’ve read a clarification posting that Newsgator, the RSS agregation company, is not, in fact, the reviled spyware company ‘Gator’. Apparently people don’t seem to get that just because a business name contains, in part, the name of another business, they’re not actually the same business. Shocking.
From Nick Bradbury’s blog posting:
Shortly after I announced that NewsGator had acquired my company, I started seeing comments from people wondering whether NewsGator was related to the “Gator” spyware company (now known as “Claria”). The answer, of course, is NO (you don’t really think I’d join a spyware company, do you?).
Latest Firefox reintroduces 7-year-old security flaw
June 8th, 2005 at 12:31 pmMost browser vendors, including Mozilla, agreed and updated their products to remove the feature. But it has been reintroduced in Firefox 1.0.4, Mozilla 1.7.8 and Camino 0.x, according to the firm. Secunia has published an online demonstration of the flaw.
Xbox 360 Backwards Compatability Explained
June 8th, 2005 at 11:59 amMicrosoft has agreed to pay a small royalty to Nvidia to allow the Xbox 360′s ATI chipset to emulate the performance of the Nvidia chipset.
Microsoft hawking Halo script for $10m
June 8th, 2005 at 3:19 amReceptionists at most major studios reportedly got a shock with their morning coffee yesterday. According to Variety (subscription required), all the major movie studios’ Hollywood offices were visited on Monday by messengers dressed as the Master Chief, the armored hero of the Halo games…