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Verified by who??! A letter to VISA.
Dear Visa,
Over the last few days I’ve spent many frustrating hours trying to book an AirAsia ticket over an hsdpa connection from a sandy tropical island. Not fun. Once the lethargic AirAsia site actually allowed me to book a ticket, the payment process was interrupted by something called “Verified by Visa” - a mysterious page… »
State of the Web: Bangladesh
I recently spent six weeks volunteering in the depths of rural Bangladesh. During that time, I lived in a town of 50,000 people (Rayenda) – of which about 30% had electricity (which went out for hours at a time, several times a day), few had running water, nobody had a landline, and the only car… »
Video of our stint in Bangladesh
From extraordinary photographer Jeff Johns in Los Angeles, who came out to Bangladesh for his two weeks of vacation to help… »
Follow me through Asia on Twitter
I’m finding Twitter to be alarmingly useful for quick posts from the road or my phone, so you’ll see my Twitter volume increase, and (as you may have noticed!) my TechFold blog be updated intermittently (apologies).
Anyway, you can follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/dreadsword
or read our travel blog: http://venturefar.wordpress.com
and follow our pics:… »
Outlook Policies
This is a question that I’m investigating that I could use your help for.
I’m trying to find out if its possible to force Outlook to use a specific email template; the twist is an enterprise setting: I need to do this across 3000 desktop Outlook installations, and centrally administer the template. The goal is to… »
Web 3.0: Using GPS, Google, Satellites to Track Falcons from Chile to the Arctic
A friend sent me this story today from the Falcon Research Group: they’re using solar powered, GPS locator bands to track migrating Peregrine Falcons. The bands report in by satellite every 10 days - that location is automatically publicized with a nice Google Map on each bird’s tracking page.
Its a very Web 3.0 application -… »
FYI: The history of CSS
I’ve been doing some CSS stuff for the new version of AllergyCards.com that I’m working on. Along the way, I got curious as to where CSS actually came from: its simple and powerful, who was responsible? The short? A lot of people, iterating each other’s ideas over time.
For the long, visit: CSS Early History by… »
Staying on TechMeme
Huh. Looks like I’m de-listed from TechMeme - again. TechMeme seems to drop sites from its “to-index” list if you don’t link to other stories that get on TechMeme regularly. To be honest, I don’t really like that - it increases the feedback loop that clusters blog posts around whatever the two or three hot… »
Awesome mod_rewrite / .htaccess Tutorial
Found an awesome Apache mod_rewrite via .htaccess tutorial tonite at yourhtmlsource. For those in the know, mod_rewrite is a killer way to get “clean urls” - i.e.:
“foo.com/bar”
…as opposed to:
“foo.com/index.php?pageid=bar”
I’ve previously used .htaccess “ForceType” commands to get the job done, but this time around I needed to rewrite from the root, i.e.: “foo.com/bar” where “bar” can… »
Zooomr on Uncov: Ouch.
I’ve always stayed out of Zooomr related discussions, as yes, I think it borrows to much from Flickr, and yes, I think its only success factor is some clunky “features” and the “heartwarming underdog” status of its underage, two person team — yadda yadda yadda all of which has been repeated ad nauseam elsewhere.
I’m also… »