Reddit user Zy14rk gave the perfect answer to the question “What’s a DVD?” Comment from discussion Zy14rk’s comment from discussion "What are people using to rip DVD’s these days?". I’m preparing to rip my DVD collection.
Category Archives: Technology
An Idea to Stop Vehicle Terrorism
Last updated on December 31st, 2017 at 06:32 pmAs I write this, news is coming in of another runaway vehicle mowing down pedestrians on a busy street. This time in Melbourne. No details yet other than the police have arrested the driver. If this is an act of terrorism or a tragic accident, there is […]
Apple Touch Icon Cheat Sheet
Last updated on June 9th, 2018 at 11:28 amContinuing from yesterday’s post on apple-touch-icon sizes, the best cheat sheet for icon sizes and all other design things is iOS design guidelines by Ivo Mynttinen.
Apple Touch Icon Sizes Updated for iOS 11
Last updated on May 27th, 2018 at 12:26 amhttp://stackoverflow.com/a/19933647/5118345 Stack Overflow user felipep posted an answer to the question “What size should apple-touch-icon.png be for iPad and iPhone 4?” His brilliant work is that he updates with all the suggested icon sizes for iOS10, including iPad Pro and every new iPhone and iPad as it is […]
Never Add Analytics Code to Your WordPress Theme
Last updated on June 9th, 2018 at 11:32 amBest practise is to use a plugin to add Analytics code to your website, not the options in your theme. When you change themes you lose the code and often the first thing you know about it is a gap in your analytics data. A detailed explanation […]
Banned Domains list
I’ve created a page for Banned Domains on this server. Any spammers that get through the blocklists will be added to the list. To get off the list comment below. If your comment is spam I’ll add you to a popular blocklist.
Server woes
Last updated on February 24th, 2016 at 06:30 pmSorry to those of you whose emails I’m not receiving. Unless I’m receiving them and you’re in the smaller group of people who can’t receive my emails. Unless you’re in a non-intersecting group of people who are connecting to an older server (in which case you can’t […]
Fix Google Analytics Spam
Last updated on February 17th, 2016 at 04:04 amBottom line up front: Prevent spam in your Google Analytics with only 2 filters Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics service today so it is a target-rich environment for spammers to get eyeballs. They hope that web masters will see their url and check […]
Change iPhone Backup Location
Last updated on May 3rd, 2016 at 09:38 amI have a 64GB iPhone 5S but my MacBook Air only has a 128GB SSD which is not enough to regularly hold a backup of my phone. iCloud offers 5GB free online space so I have to pick and chose what gets synchronised via iCloud. I decided […]
ZagZ redesigned
Last updated on February 17th, 2016 at 04:06 amDuring a hasty server relocation I discovered that the database that stores ZagZ.com was slightly corrupted. Not badly enough to affect the performance of the site. But enough that the backups didn’t notice it and reported themselves happily complete. The actuality was that the posts and comments […]