Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Long Hair or Short Hair?

Posted in Family, My Blog, Health, Life, Photo by Elliott Back on July 29th, 2006.

So I just got my hair cut. Here’s a photo of me with longer hair:

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And now, the new me:

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I think the former picture looks better, but the hair’s nicer in the second.

Secret Google Sandbox

Posted in Links by Elliott Back on July 28th, 2006.

The Google Sandbox let’s you add fake services to your Google account; perfect for scoping out unreleased products.

Neighbors Stealing Internet?

Posted in Links by Elliott Back on July 28th, 2006.

Are the neighbors stealing your internet? Why not make them read the net upside down?

Hello Yahoo!

Posted in Code, Yahoo, YPN by Elliott Back on July 27th, 2006.

You don’t let me leave a comment without registering, so I’m not going to. Trackbacks are so much prettier, no?

Anyway, you tell your publishers:

Don’t manipulate our ad code. We’re flexible and already offer plenty of choices.

I have to say that’s completely nonsensical. I never used your ad code when I ran YPN ads. It was just too limiting and broken. It didn’t validate because you didn’t declare the script mime type as “text/javascript.” So, I added that to the ads myself. Then, your color picker just sucked, so I hand coded the rest of my colors. If you’ve got a problem with that, I would recommend that all your publishers drop you on moral principle. Otherwise, you might want to clarify the above statement.

What you probably meant to say is something like:

You must include the ad code from our servers, but you can customize the rest of the javascript on your site.

Wouldn’t a statement like that make more sense? It might make publishers more comfortable, too.

New Wordpress Security Flaw

Posted in Links by Elliott Back on July 27th, 2006.

New Wordpress security flaw: check it here. In the meantime, turn off anonymous user registration until 2.04.

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