W3C Validator Gets a Facelift
Haven’t used the validator for a long time, I must confess, so was pleasantly surprised when I visited today and noticed a revamp:
Archive for February, 2008
Review: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly tells the tragic story of former Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who becomes paralyzed after a car accident. He suffers ‘locked-in syndrome’, and can only communicate by blinking his left eye. Despite this tragedy, he manages to dictate his memoirs and the film concentrates on this process.
What unfolds is a truly inspiring story of a man coming to terms with being trapped inside a non-functioning body, and is brilliant played by Mathieu Amalric. A lot of the film is shot from his perspective adding to the sense of absolute frustration that Bauby feels.
The artist-director Julian Schnabel makes many of the scenes more memorable by using vivid colours, particularly when featuring the female characters. The many dream-like cut scenes add a fantasy element, contrasting with the stark setting of the hospital where most of the film is played out.
Overall, a fantastic film and inspiring in many ways.
Rating: out of 5 stars
Fixing Yahoo Mail Push Problem on iPhone
For the last few weeks, the Mail functionality has been broken on my iPhone. When looking at the Inbox, I had one message that said “Load another 25 messages…”, and selecting this did nothing. I scoured the web, and found a couple of possible solutions: resetting the iPhone, removing the mail account and setting it up again, but neither of these worked for me. Finally, though, I have found a solution and can enjoy Mail again:
- log into Yahoo! Mail on your desktop machine, not your iPhone.
- Create a new folder called temp
- Choose the ‘Select All Messages’ option from the ‘More Actions’ menu in your Inbox
- Move messages to the temp folder
- Check on your iPhone that your Inbox is empty: you may need to refresh
- Move messages back from temp to Inbox
Bingo!
Yahoo! Opens up Search Platform
This open search platform enables 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. There are a number of layers and capabilities that we have built into the platform, but our intent is clear — present users with richer, more useful search results so that they can complete their tasks more efficiently and get from “to do” to “done.”
Yahoo! Buzz Launches
Yahoo! Buzz features the most popular stories right now, determined by people around the Web. A story’s Buzz Score is based on your votes, searches, emails, and more.
Film Review: Eastern Promises
David Cronenberg’s latest film stars Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts in a gritty gangster thriller set in North London. It concerns the death of a young teenager, the diary that she leaves behind and the implications of a Russian gang behind her death.
Mortensen, who plays the driver of the gang, puts in a performance of both menace and intrigue: dressed in his smart black suit, you are never quite sure if he will lose his cool.
The story is well-paced and the dialogue good, with enough humour sprinkled around to soften the often very tense scenes. The violence, as you might expect from Cronenberg, is shocking and, in the case of the bath house fight scene, incredibly brutal.
Even though the ending ties up a few too many loose ends, I found it a very enoyable gangster film and Mortensen’s performance deserves the Oscar nomination.
Rating: out of 5 stars
Updated: Yahoo! Maps plug-in
I’ve updated the plug-in so it’s now a Universal Binary:
Stumbleupon For Safari
Okay, so it’s not the full-monty, but for general procrastination purposes it’s mighty fine:
Search engine snippets, part 2
This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Search engine snippets. My site has now got a meta description tag and Google and Yahoo have both picked up on it:
Google:
Yahoo:
Google shows just the content of the meta description tag, whilst Yahoo also adds some content from the top of my blog.