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Daylight savings - am I a troglodyte? Can I handle international web applications?

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Daylight savings is changing tonight in Melbourne Australia at 2 AM. Our clocks are going forward this Saturday/Sunday at at the specified time of 2 AM, this mean I can sleep in. Wow, I love sleeping in. Yes I am very productive during daylight savings, but hell, I still do love sleeping in! How sweet it is. Suddenly 9:00 AM becomes 8:00 AM. Could daylight savings get any better? Suddenly I don’t feel so guilty about daylight savings.

Web applications? Are they international, definitely yes! What about Flickr, when is my picture publishes? Daylight savings or not? What about my shopping cart purchase at Amazon. Daylight savings or not? What about a simple comment on a post. Daylight savings or not? How do you handle different time zones. Do you count on the server? Well the short answer it seems is yes. But the long answer is - does it realy matter?

Well do I like this? The answer is yes. I can sleep in and be an hour late, wow daylight savings helps me me be a better person. More sleep = good. More comments on a post per day = good. More importantly it is impossible to be late!

Daylight saving for Melbourne Australia, you are great. Thank you and it can help slightly late web application developers.

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Cheapest royalty free stock photos on the internet

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Where can I get the cheapest royalty free stock photos on the internet I here you say.

Fotolia.com provide royalty free stock photos at extremely reduced prices - $1 for medium, $2 for large and $3 for extra large. After you come too from the shock of those crazy low prices, you will ask, well why are they so cheap? Well according to Fotolia it “is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations”.

With the medium images being about 2MB in size they are easily big enough for use on the web.

That being said some of the images can be quite cheesy, but if you do some intense searching I am sure you will be able to find something useful and all for a measly $1, a US dollar that is.

So go forth and prosper, tell your friends and family the more the merrier.

Technorati Tags: stock photos, photography, cheap photos, free photos, web

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How much is your website worth?

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Recently I came across a fantastic site dnScoop, which attempts to estimate the net value of your domain and website. It even gives you an approximation on how much a single link on your site is worth by taking into consideration a number of factors when calculating your websites value:

Links pointing to the domain
Popularity of the domain
Age of the domain
Pagerank of the domain
Traffic to the domain

Interesting concept, however, your site is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. What about an old fashioned eBay style auction? Anyone want to buy my website for $220? Or do I hear 1 million dollars?

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Website evolution - Look how far the web has come

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

With the advent of Web 2.0 and the evolution of the web as a whole I started to wonder: How far has the web come from its humble inception? Luckily Archive.org can provide a portal into our past, looks like we don’t need Doc from Back to the Future after all. Below are some interesting comparisons, I hope you enjoy.