The World has gone crazy
There is no doubt - the evidence is all around us. I think it is time to make it official - the World has gone crazy!
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Passwords
Remembering passwords for the many different websites is one thing - and there are handy applications to help keep a record of them - but creating sufficiently complex passwords that can be remembered is another thing altogether.
I will try to show you some easy to use rules that allow you to create easy to remember and suitably complex passwords for the myriad of websites or applications that you use.
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Adding RSS newsfeeds to your site
RSS (originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works - such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video - in a standardized format. [sic]
In this article I will show you how you can add an RSS feed from an external site to your site using PHP and javascript which can be manipulated in any way you wish and doesn't involve loading javascript files from any external sites.
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Pandemic
We really didn't pay much attention to it at first. It was just a small outbreak across the water in some tiny, insignificant place where they produced bacon and not much else. Nothing for us to worry about.
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The costs of wind farms
This year has been particularly hard for many of us - the 'Credit Crunch', rising energy prices, the cost of fuel rocketing sky high, the collapse of several European country's financial institutions and more so its it any wonder everyone is feeling the pinch and trying hard to save money wherever we can? Trying to save money is perfectly natural given the circumstances so one might expect public outrage at the sheer ludicrous nature of the wind industry but as yet the public seems quite ill informed about the whole issue.
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Would you like this looking over your shoulder?
125m - it doesn't sound very much does it? After all, top athletes can run this distance in about 14secs so it can't be all that far really. Well, in truth 125m is not enormous - but considering the average male in the UK is under 2m tall then 125m represents almost 70 males standing one on top of the other.
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