Toyota’s April Fool’s Joke [Animal Lingerie]
I discovered this tasty bit on April 3rd, so, I wasn’t sure if it was a April Fool’s joke or terrible advertising. It turned out to be Toyota’s idea of a joke, and a clever way to get clicks that land you at a flash-loaded web page promoting their Toyota Matrix. Perhaps Toyota doesn’t know when to let a dead joke lie, or perhaps Technorati didn’t provide the paid-for click-throughs/impressions. Whatever the case, it allowed me to see what the heck Sakura’s Animal Lingerie was all about.
Live Web Site Stats: Whos.Amung.Us
If you run your own web site or blog as a hobby, reading the stats from that site can be pretty exciting, almost to point where your friends (those without web sites) pretend to get phone calls while you’re gushing over the recent surge in traffic you’ve seen coming from Ireland. Where are these people coming from? Where do they live? How did they find my site? How many people actually read my stuff!? All these questions run through your head as you sift through the numbers provided by your tracking program of choice (I use Google Analytics). Unless, of course, you simply continually refresh your own web site to artificially increase your page hits in which case, I’m sorry…
Another potentially exciting thing would be knowing exactly how many people are viewing your web site at any moment. Who’s.Amung.Us [sic] can answer your question with ease. When you visit the site, a unique code is generated for you that you can place on your site. The resulting image (like the one in this post) shows the number of people who are viewing any part of your site at that moment. Clicking on the image will bring you to a stats page that shows historical data of concurrent users.
Lastly, for those looking for instant gratification, you can install a Firefox plugin that will display the number of visitors on your site in the status bar.
How Margins Work for the IMG Element
I usually use a WYSIWYG editor for getting code out in a hurry, but I’m fairly proficient when it comes to HTML. Today, however, I wanted to force a margin around an image for a buffer but I incorrectly used a parameter of “margin” and assigned a pixel value. What one is supposed to do is use HSPACE and VSPACE.
HSPACE will create a margin of the specified pixel size on the left and right of the image.
VSPACE will create a margin of the specified pixel size on the to and bottom of the image.
For example:
<img src=”http://www.365discoveries.com/images/image.jpg” hspace=”5″ vspace=”3″ />
Will create a 5 pixel margin on the left and right of the image and a 3 pixel margin on the top and bottom of the image.
Breaking Out is Hard to Do
There are no entry-level IT (or similar fields) jobs in my area. I’m not sure if this is a result of lack of IT in this area, or over abundance of IT professionals in the area. Either way, I’m not pleased. :-\
I’m filing this one under Discovered and Undiscovered…
WordPress Fixed Pinging for Future Posts
It took me some amount of time to find this answer, but it seems that WordPress will process a “ping” for your blog when a post goes live. Previously, WordPress would send a ping as soon as any post was published, regardless if a post was scheduled to go live at a later date. After version 2.3 (I believe), the ping will be sent after the new post is public.
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that when your blog pings whatever services you have set up, it’s not telling the service what’s new, only that there is something new at your blog and the service should send a spider/robot/crawler/killer coding ninja monkey at your blog to discover the new content.
Either way, it’s a pretty important feature… But, so are killer coding ninja monkeys… and they don’t have that integrated into WordPress yet, damnit.
(Yes, this post was scheduled for a future time… heheh.)
The Origin of April Fool’s Day
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I Need to Test the Summary Feature for My Feed
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