http://urbanmainframe.com/ Discussion of XHTML, CSS, Perl, web design & computer modding and more. Includes the weblog of DarkBlue. en-uk urbanmainframe.com. All Rights Reserved. Shapeshifter CMS (http://digital-word.com/) 1440 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041123/ Why do some weblogs attract large numbers of readers while others operate with near invisibility? Why do the same weblogs get linked to time and time again? I tidied up my blogroll today. I removed some websites and added others. ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041123/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041123/ 2004-11-24T01:50:14+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041121/ I'll wager that the comments handler on the Urban Mainframe is one of the most frequently revised feedback mechanisms in the entire blogosphere and... I've been at it again http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041121/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041121/ 2004-11-21T22:17:07+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041119/ I apologise for the frivolous post, but this just cracked me up. [found at: Computer Zen] http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041119/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041119/ 2004-11-19T16:38:53+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041118/ I have created my first search plug-in(s) for Firefox. The plug-ins add search options for Koders, a search engine for source code. Koders enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041118/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041118/ 2004-11-18T14:32:02+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041117/ How many times have you worked through a page of links patiently right-clicking and saving images/MP3s/files? How many times have you wished you could capture an entire website and save it to disk? I won't even ask about pr0n! ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041117/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041117/ 2004-11-17T10:41:28+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041115/ I have mostly passed under the radar of the Referrer Spammers, but my invisibility spell has gradually depleted. This past weekend (13-14 Nov, 2004) my access logs recorded 187 hits from referrer spammers. I'll admit that 187 hits isn't a ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041115/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041115/ 2004-11-15T23:42:31+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041110/ We've had the "Logo Smackdown", we had the "Screen Grab Confab" and we've had "What's On Your Bookshelf?" and they're all well and good. But I'm a serious geek, I need to see metal, I need to see plastic, I need to see banks of ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041110/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041110/ 2004-11-10T20:58:40+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041109/ This is a momentous day. I have finally purged the last remaining Windows server from my network! The Great Cull of 2004 began, you may remember, with the cleansing of my media server back in August. I subsequently eradicated Windows ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041109/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041109/ 2004-11-09T14:51:05+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041107/ I've just discovered the *nix command, tail - and what a useful command it is. In its simplest form, tail displays the last 10 lines of a file. Now I appreciate that this doesn't sound very exciting, but tail has a particularly useful ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041107/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041107/ 2004-11-07T03:18:14+00:00 http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041105/ I have just watched Vanilla Sky, a surreal movie starring Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz and Kurt Russell. I thoroughly enjoyed the film, with its clever plot, slick direction (Cameron Crowe) and mind-bending imagery ... http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041105/user_comments.htm http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041105/ 2004-11-05T17:11:57+00:00