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Firefox 3 Easter Eggs

There are some moderately amusing Easter Eggs in Firefox 3.  Simply type one of the following into the address bar (no spaces or http) and you’ll get a message:
about:robots
about:mozilla
about:config
(ok, technically “about: config” isn’t an Easter Egg, but the title on the warning screen is relatively amusing!)
Enjoy!
Also, don’t forget to check out:  Firefox 3 Super Speed [...]

How to execute Javascript (and Google Adsense) in AJAX

A few months ago I was faced with a bit of a problem.  A webpage I was writing was AJAX-based - meaning that it sent requests to and from the server asynchronously and would rewrite parts of the page as the server responded.  However if the server returns any kind of scripting code (including javascript) [...]

Useful Firefox extensions

Newsfox is a good, free plugin for Firefox that does an good job of handling your RSS feeds with the bonus that it integrates well with firefox’s live bookmarks, reads OPML files, and will let you view the web page by default rather than the plain text.  NewsFox is free (Don’t confuse it with the [...]

Moving your website? Check your TTL!

Sometimes you just have to move your website.  Perhaps you were hosting a website in a subdirectory of another site and it became popular?  Perhaps you need to move to another website hosting company?  The reasons are many and varied.  There are a couple of quirks to watch out for.
Recently I had to move one [...]