Drugs
June 15th, 2005 by Sarah KingDrugs aren’t something I think about, my life is too busy and my kids are too young – and I was never into them anyway. I was looking at another site and clicked on the ad to see what it was about. I’m normally immune to ads so it full marks to the designer
I ended up at an anti drugs site called freevibe. Read the rest of this entry »
419ers hit new lows
June 15th, 2005 by Sarah KingI work a couple of days a week for a big American company and have only used their email address at ittoolbox.com so I’m not sure where the spam is coming from but I’ve had a few 419 type emails. Here’s an extract from one: Read the rest of this entry »
Unobtrusive Javascript
June 14th, 2005 by Sarah KingI’ve just found this excellent series on Javascript – it’s not a strategic guide and perhaps for the more experienced coder who has the difference between server side and client side all sorted out and understands how to use CSS properly. Well worth a read.
Bloggers warned about law in Capill case
June 14th, 2005 by Sarah KingI’ve written here about the Graham Capill case, the double standards and the media reaction to bloggers. But wait! there’s more: Bloggers warned about law in Capill case. Read the rest of this entry »
Kiwi Bloggers get organised!
June 13th, 2005 by Sarah KingRichard Cresswell appears to be a very organised guy looking for ways to improve the NZ blogging scene.
He’s proposing a concept called the Kiwi Carnival and looking at setting up a site (he’s looking for artwork) just for the results. Read the rest of this entry »
Google and the Caps lock
June 11th, 2005 by Sarah KingI was just cruising my logs, as you do on a Saturday night
and noticed something strange. Try searching for something using lowercase type, then repeat it all in uppercase. Do yo uget the same results? Read the rest of this entry »
Media versus Bloggers
June 11th, 2005 by Sarah KingI was driving home from last night listening to a radio journo on NewstalkZB reporting on the Graham Capill case. He was doing an opinion piece and mentioned that he’d gone “into cyberspace” and that people were commenting on the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Justice for Sale in the USA?
June 10th, 2005 by Sarah KingI’m no legal gun but here’s a scenario from my ideal world.
I’m in a hotel, and I have a hissy fit and whack a member of staff with a phone causing injury and stress. The staff member has every right to do a job without being assaulted so the cops get called.
If the “problem” is a police matter then why does it appear to world that I can open my wallet and fork out $$$ to buy the police off. Ok, I’m buying my victim off, but I get 2 for the price of 1. Read the rest of this entry »

