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Embedded Tweets Not Ready for Prime-Time
in WebsitesTwitter just launched a little tool designed to make it easier to embed tweets into your website. Currently blogs tend to paste in tweets whenever a twitter source requires reference, as Twitter explain in their blog post “…a pasted-in image of a tweet is a bit of a hack. We have a simple alternative to […] Continue Reading
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Winnipeg’s Mayoral Candidate “Judy” Needs A Web Presence
in WinnipegJudy Wasylycia-Leis, Winnipeg’s only official mayoral candidate announced her candidacy 1/2 an hour ago. At the time of writing, neither her official website or facebook fan page have been updated. Fail. Continue Reading
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Winnipeg’s Golden Era
in WinnipegThis post is somewhat outside of the scope of the types of things I normally blog about here, we’ll see if I continue this sort of thing. I came across a great series of photographs from The Winnipeg Transit archives via the Winnipeg blog Rise and Sprawl. Here are some of my favorite photos from what […] Continue Reading
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How To Detect Mobile Visitors Using .htaccess Rewrite Rules, Simplified
Since my original posts on mobile redirection in .htaccess files I’ve gotten some comments and emails asking for step-by-step guidance on exactly how to “install” these rules. I hope this post will answer some of those questions. Before you continue reading, if you have php installed on your server, you may want to consider Andy Moore’s php […] Continue Reading
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Sorry Google
in GoogleThe other day I was doing some surfing as googlebot (using firefox’s user agent switcher plugin) to try to debug some weirdly cloaked spammy search results I was seeing. I had accidentally done 3 searches as googlebot when I was redirected to sorry.google.com with this error screen: Odd. Continue Reading