As an experiment, I signed up for Google Adsense. The most popular section of my website is my list of PDA friendly web site, so I thought I'd see what kind of ads Google would want to display. So far, everything is related to Palm PDAs, especially “shopping” links. There isn't too much traffic on this site, but it'll be interesting to see how it goes.
We’re getting all set for the Big Vacation of the summer. Starting next week, we’re off for: 4 days at Anaheim (Disneyland of course) 5 days in San Diego (Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Sea World, Legoland) 2 days in Santa Barbara (parent recovery time) With some luck I’m going to try to post some pictures while we’re traveling for the folks back home. We’re already planning to bring the laptop so that the kids can watch DVDs on the drive down.
PHP Complete points to Colours on the web which looks like another good resource for understanding design choices and choosing complementary colors for web sites. PHP Complete also has an RSS feed. Subscribed. [Found via Scott Johnson] Update 2003-09-01: Another useful tool is Color Blender by Eric Meyer [Via Phil Gyford]
Joel on Software is a valuable site for software developers. A former developer at Microsoft who now runs his own software company (Fog Creek Software), Joel Spolsky writes about software development in a common-sense manner. Periodically, I'll peruse the archive to read some of the older articles, even those I've read before. Today I'm reading (again) his series on Painless Functional Specifications: Part 1 — Why Bother Part 2 — What's a Spec? Part 3 — But… How? Part 4 — Tips
Getting Started with RSS Recently I discovered goodthatway, a tech news site whose tagline is “better living through better technology”. I suggested that the site offer an RSS feed to help people keep up with the latest links and stories. Scott from goodthatway was interested in the details, so I’ve put together this article with some details. There are a lot of different choices and options when assembling an RSS feed for your site. The path I’ve taken here is but one way to do it. Looking at goodthatway.com, it appears to be the perfect site for RSS. The home…