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Remove Words from Firefox Custom Dictionary

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Ever type a word you know to be correct yet Firefox says is misspelled?  Say something like snigglefritz…  Thinking there could be numerous spellings for snigglefritz,  I know that mine is the correct one.  What I really hate is Firefox telling me it’s wrong every time I type it. One way to get around that is to add your spelling … Read more

Set-up an FTP Server on Windows 2003 Server

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Setting up an FTP server on Windows 2003 Server is a pretty simple process.  Why would you need an FTP server?  Well, if you are hosting websites you might want to allow designers and customers access to their webfolders  (not me… no one accesses my server but me but you can.. 🙂 ) and an FTP server is a great … Read more

IIS 6: Adding Footers to Web Pages

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Did you know you can configure the Microsoft IIS 6 web server to automatically insert an HTML-formatted file to the bottom of every web page sent out by your Web Server?  Well, you can. For example, you host several sites and want to add a link back to your company for advertisement.  You could create a simple HTML file that … Read more

CSS – Long URL

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This is an older post that did not make it through to the new site when I converted to WordPress. Hopefully this will still be relevant to someone out there.

CSS and the Long URL:

I was working on a webmail client a while back and had been having a few design problems. Sometimes when you subscribe to a blog, forum or usergroup the e-mails from those respective subscriptions will include an “unsubscribe url”. This Blog does. Now this URL can be really long and, in a normal email client (Outlook, Thunderbird etc) this is a non issue. But, writing a webmail client this became an issue.

In Firefox, if the url is longer than the width of the div area it would break my layout. In IE the long url would wrap to the next line as expected. The only Fix I could find for this was

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WordPress and Smileys

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I don’t know about you but, sometimes on the web (twitter especially) the humor or sarcasm meant in a statement can be lost. So, I always try to add a little smiley so people know I’m not such a big jerk.  On a similar front, WordPress will convert text smileys into their graphic equivalent . The problem is, I can’t … Read more

The First Microsoft Bing Ad

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I ran across this a little while ago. Microsoft has launched it’s first Bing commercial and, it’s not terrible. Nothing Earth Shattering but it’s a pretty good commercial. I’ve used “Bing” a few times and I’ll say one thing, it is quite fast returning results. I’ve not put it head to head with Google yet to see what it does … Read more