As a visitor to Japan, I know there are a number of cultural differences – but IPWalk has a picture comparing the differences between the home pages of one of the largest “Western” web hosting companies (1and1) and the largest Japanese web hosting provider – Lolipop: and the difference are astounding…. Take a look yourself.
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Difference between East and West
May 27th, 2007Net: Code Snippets for web designers
May 17th, 2007Another quick snippet for today as I’m quite busy – in fact take 25 code snippets for web designers (including Bubble Tool Tips, Box Overs, Ajax Star rating bar, CSS Star Rating Redux, Ajax Contact Form, an online form creation utility called Wufoo, Pretty Accessible Forms, Radio and Checkbox customisations, a text renderer thingy, revised image replacement, the obligatory CSS rounded corners, cool looking CSS Speech Bubbles, even more rounded corners, vertical bar graphs just using CSS and PHP (and another method), a hover light box, Lightbox JS, CSS Image Maps, CSS Image Pop-up, Sliding Doors CSS Navigation tabs, taming lists, a design experiement in the art of navigation, navigation matrix reloaded, light weight css tabs and accessible image tab roll overs.
Phew – so much for this being a snippet on its own!
Net: Top Ten Grammar Mistakes
May 16th, 2007Scribed> has a list of 10 grammar mistakes whot can make you stupid look. 
They include: “I always loose lose the key”, “Download it’s its readme file” and “the laptop is overheating and its it’s making that funny noise again”, “managers are in they’re their weekly planning meeting” whilst “the techs have to hand in there their phones at the door and their they’re not happy about it”.
It also covers things like the difference between i.e. and e.g. (i.e., the difference being that i.e. stands for ‘that is’ and ‘e.g.’ is for example) and my personal bug-bearer where “this problem shouldn’t effect affect any users” (but it shouldn’t have any effect on them) .
Net: ….for $9 million dollars!
May 16th, 2007Wowsers – it appears the domain name porn.com has just sold for a Dr.Evilish nine million dollars! And by sounds of things, the new owner considers it a longer-term project and will just keep it parked with a domain name monetisation company.
I know from experience a slightly adultish domain name can easily pull in $20 per day – so this very high typable domain name will certainly bring in the money quick.
Net: The Stargate in Lego
May 14th, 2007
This is extremely impressive. Kelly McKiernan has made the Stargate totally out of Legos. It’s 19 inches tall, rotates, and has light up cheverons.
To think, when I was younger I thought it was impressive when I made simple things that moved in Lego – this is just taking things to a whole new level. But, saying that, I never spent longer than 3 weeks – let alone 3 months! – building a single item.
I know some people really enjoy Stargate and Stargate Atlantis – but I’ve never really sat down and watched an episode yet, but I’m sure I’ll be made to soon…
Found via Dave’s Chalkboard.
