Yes!!! and now we’re broadcasting using RSS!

Quick collection of  sites that will help you generate test content:

General copy

http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/
http://www.lipsum.com/

Names

http://www.fakenamegenerator.com
http://www.generatedata.com/#generator

Today I was configuring a DNS server and noticed that not much reference on how to create records that match any host exists.

What I needed was to setup up a proxy server using a domain that was has its website and email externally hosted, while giving the LAN users the option to enter proxy.example.com as the proxy name server.  Basically, I needed the DNS server to return a local IP address for the proxy and the real Internet addresses for the other hosts.  I came with two possible solutions: Read the rest of this entry »

I was happy to see some days ago that Google now covers Bolivia on Google Maps!  Most of the specific addresses that I looked up returned an inaccurate result which Google presents with a “Placement on map is approximate” but this is really a good start.

Some cities include: Read the rest of this entry »

Use the following PHP code to encode Microsoft Office Word special formatting characters (like m dash, bullets, typographic quotation marks, etc) as HTML entities.

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I guess just one more post about Facebook new Terms of Use.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69048030774

After reading this, and Facebook’s Beacon project, I feel very tempted to leave Facebook for good and be very very cautious about how my information is “used” in other networking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Anamorphic format is a term that can be used either for the cinematography technique of capturing a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film, or other visual recording media, Read the rest of this entry »

Around August 25th tigo launched the 3G service in the three major cities of Bolivia.

Although the 3G prices seem fair ($ 15 for 1000 MB/month), the major drawback that I see is that you must have an active phone number to obtain the them. The prepaid offer seems to be just too high and doesn’t really make sense (about $ 3 /day).

Let´s see when Viva and Entel will catch up…

It happened to me that all the times that I logged out Yahoo! Mail beta, Firefox would crash completely.
Doing some tests I found that the culprit was Firebug extension for Firefox; I simply disabled Firebug for yahoo.com and I haven’t had any more problems since then.

Versions:
Firefox 2.0.0.12
Firebug 1.05

So far I haven’t figured out where is the user’s caret when entering an HTML page with multiple fields.

With the following code (placed right before the closing HTML tag), the page will load and focus the first text or text area field on the page. Read the rest of this entry »