Archive for February, 2008

W3C Validator Gets a Facelift

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Haven’t used the validator for a long time, I must confess, so was pleasantly surprised when I visited today and noticed a revamp: The W3C Markup Validator Service

Review: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

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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 [...]

Fixing Yahoo Mail Push Problem on iPhone

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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 [...]

Yahoo! Opens up Search Platform

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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 [...]

Yahoo! Buzz Launches

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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. Yahoo! Buzz

Film Review: Eastern Promises

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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 [...]

Stumbleupon For Safari

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Okay, so it’s not the full-monty, but for general procrastination purposes it’s mighty fine: stumbleupon.com/demo/

Search engine snippets, part 2

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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.