Ajaxian is reporting that the shiny-new Animated PNG standard will be included in Firefox 3.
Now if we poor, suffering, huddling masses of website designers can just get Microsoft to properly support regular PNGs in IE8, we’ll be making some progress.
Professionals who have already done 156-215 and similar series like 70-290 and 70-296 usually advise against [...]

The objective of this game is to keep the cat on the board. [link]
And thus, we see that it is as difficult to herd a cat in a game as it is in real life.
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ArsTechnica has a great write-up of the aftermath of Google’s acquisition of Urchin, which made log-analytics software for the ISP/HSP/ASP industries. [link]
Speaking as someone who has used both the older, standalone version of Urchin and the Google Analytics it was forcibly evolved into, I can safely say that I strongly prefer the older version, because [...]

I certainly don’t want to act like attacking the crooks themselves is the whole solution to the problem, but I do want to take a moment to offer a brief thumbs-up to all the national law enforcement services that took part in this international crack-down on fraudulent checks used in online scams. [link]
We all need [...]

Cringely of I, Cringely has an excellent essay on the telecom swindles of the 90’s-00’s. No, not the ones personified by such charlatan hucksters as Bernie Ebbers and C. Michael Armstrong, but on the fact that, by all rights, the American public should be enjoying fiber-to-the-home right now, rather than being promised such super-high-speed offerings [...]

This post brought back some fond memories: [link]
Call control. It’s the most important aspect of support. The caller has to know you’re in control, and if you let yourself panic, it’s all over, as this article notes.
The good thing is that if you’re patient and take the time to learn what your caller is actually [...]

A federal inmate has filed a handwritten federal lawsuit alleging that Michael Vick “stole my dogs” and seeking damages in the amount of “63,000,000,000.00 Billion dollars”. This fellow is either brilliant, insane, or both. [link]
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Here’s a handy little utility to help you get the most from your transparent PNGs in website design:
http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/
If you’re using Joomla, the excellent CorrectPNG plugin will get you only so far. For the rest, remove the gAMA channels from the affected files, and you should be right as rain in all browsers, including the incorrigible [...]

I’ve had to use LunarPages for work on a client site, and I must say, they’re just not up-to-snuff.
They’re clearly overselling bandwidth: One need look no further than their absurd storage and bandwidth “allowances” to see that they’re advertising a sizable percentage of total bandwidth available on the entire planet.
More than that, I’ve been getting [...]

I’m seeing people coming here looking for help the same way I was trying a few weeks back.
I was operating under the mistaken impression that temporarily blocking Caravan.ru IP blocks would take care of the problem, but every time I lifted the block, they came right back, usually within seconds.
Here’s what you do:
1.) Get APF. [...]