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Wii User Agent; Browser First Impressions

Today Nintendo released a trial version of their Opera-powered Wii Browser. I was curious to find out what the user agent would be, so I loaded up my site and checked my stats. Turns out it’s pretty clear who’s browsing with a Wii: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1309-9; en) The trial version leaves some […]

My South Park Equal

What do you think? From South Park Create-a-Character

Brandon Gets [Even More] Famous

Lifehacker.com just featured ClearCheckbook, a site my good friend Brandon O’Brien launched some time back. Congrats!

One Web Site per Month Challenge

Brandon said it best, so I’ll just let him do the talking: The rules are simple, create one new website, from the idea to its launch, each month for an entire year. The goal is to challenge us to come up with good ideas and then within a month create the logo, identity, layout, code and […]

New G5 PowerBooks Already!?

I almost choked on my drink when I saw this in my inbox today: From: maczone@ecat.zones.com To: Me Subject: Free Accessory Kits with Select Camears - New G5 PowerBooks Notice the multiple errors in that single subject line…

iTunes @ Stanford

Stanford just released a custom section of the iTunes Music Store with Stanford audio and video, including lectures, speeches and musical performances. Very cool. What’s even cooler is that you don’t have to be a Stanford student to get it all - it’s open to everyone. I think I’ll start with Steve […]

Confusing Error Messages

I was recently assigned the task of poring over Purdue Housing and Food Services (HFS) web site to check for errors, misspellings, etc. I’m also going to submit comments on design and usability. Check out the error I found on this page: Error ! The current browser is either too old or too modern […]

Google Name Meme

Via Jacqui’s blog: Name/Google meme - Type “(Your name) is”, with quotes, into a Google search; then pick out your favorite ten (or however many) responses. “…Matt is fortunate in that WordPress has received much love to date.” “…Matt is out of station.” “Matt is an award-winning writer and photographer who has covered the Chicago scene…” “Matt is […]

MIT Weblog Survey

You should take it too!

Spam Referrers in WordPress?

Is anyone else who uses WordPress 1.5 have a lot (read: most) of their referrers be spam sites? Now, none of these bots are leaving comments, but I wonder if my site is just in a database of “places to leave spam comments”. Anyone else?