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Archive for May, 2005

Mercury And Gender

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Autism is mercury poisoning. So says Generation Rescue and a chatroom full of convinced parents. I feel I’ve shown conclusively the fallacy in that position.

Much more ambiguous is the belief that mercury could trigger autism. There does seem to be evidence that increased rates of environmental agents might have led some children to become ill. [...]

Who’s Site Is It Anyway?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

There’s been an uptake in 3rd party apps interacting with websites in ways previously unthought of this year. Two of the biggest known are the Google Content Rewriter and now, Greasemonkey.

What both these things do is alter aspects of a website. The onus in each of these caes is slightly different. Google does it mostly, [...]

The Flash RSS Reader

Monday, May 30th, 2005

A few people have expressed curiosity in it so I thought I’d run through how its done. At this stage its really very simple but I have plans to extend its operation to automate more of the running of it.

Macromedia first introduced the ability for the SWF format to parse XML data back in the [...]

One Month, Three Redesigns

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Well, almost.

As I said in the recent past, the last redesign before this one was created during a bad down spiral – I was very tired and in bad physical shape. Above all else this new redesign I hope is a bit more upbeat.

Its a fairly comprehensive overhaul. I took the opportunity to upgrade to [...]

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