March 29, 2004
Be nice to Pine users
Here's a nice tutorial on how configure mail clients to send plain ASCII text. You recipients using a non-HTML compatible client will thank you.
Potty-mouth Mozilla developers
Henrik Gemal has posted an amusing Mozilla swear word count, listing the number of times fuck, shit, crap, and bastard appear in the Mozilla source code.
March 26, 2004
Amazon.com Visa
Bank One and Amazon have recently put out an Amazon credit card that pays you can in Amazon gift certificates valued as much as 3% for each purchase you make using the card. I've had my Amazon Visa for a few months now and have already gotten one Amazon gift certificate out of it. Right now they're offering $20 off of the fist Amazon order for new signees. This is a great offer. Click on the banner below to sign up for the Amazon credit card.
This latest offer makes the Amazon.com credit card even better. They'll even pay you $20 to try it out. I'm sure that the Amazon credit card will become your primary card.
March 25, 2004
Confessions of a Car Salesman
Edmunds, the popular car information site, has published a nice piece of investigative reporting titled Confessions of a Car Salesman. This series of nine articles was written by Chandler Phillips who went undercover to work at two car dealerships to understand the day-to-day life of a car salesman.
March 13, 2004
Pundits vs. people
Molly Holzschlag, in Integrated Web Design -- Usability: Drawing Outside the Lines, differentiates general, pundit-driven usability concepts from more specific site-specific concepts.
March 04, 2004
Fixing Internet Explorer CSS bugs
Dave Shea has written down a gret set of techniques for side-stepping CSS problems in IE.