If you’re a web designer or even a blogger who likes to tinker with html, I’d strongly suggest getting this tiny little plugin for Firefox. I use it all the time to ensure all my sites adhere to the strictest web standards. HTML Validator plugin (download) It’s a clever extension that adds HTML validation inside

WorldNetDaily: Could the Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis be tied to embedded Satanic and occultic imagery in its artwork – some of it hundreds of years old? That is the seemingly incredible thesis of a new documentary, “Rape of the Soul” made not by anti-Catholic bigots, but by devout followers of the Church. “Rape of the Soul”

Critical Internet Explorer flaw is Patched by a third party While Microsoft works on a patch for a critical Internet Explorer 6 script vulnerability that can allow a hacker to take control of a Windows PC, another firm has beaten Microsoft to the punch, releasing its own fix for the problem. The new patch from

A Year in Japan “Experience Japan’s many unique sights, sounds, tastes and more w/ this lovely, inspiring book from Kate T. Williamson. Filled with illustrations and handwritten thoughts, you’re sure to get lost in the beauty and wonder of the East!!!” Jill Bliss mix ‘n match stationery D.I.Y. Design It Yourself rainbow heart necklace

Julie spotted this hilarious clip from The Daily Show: Quail hunting Dick Cheney Style

I’ve had custom error pages for ages and never realised until today that custom error pages need to be set up correctly in order to work according to web standards, and to keep search engines crawling your site happily. Basically my custom-created 404 File Not Found page (and all the others) returned a status of

I love this! Great for small business that cant afford expensive ad campaign tracking – URLsDB: Free URL Hosting “Are you running an ad campaign or simply trying to monitor number of clicks on special link? Use URLsDB to monitor hits each link gets! Long URL’s can be a problem. They are hard to remember

Tristan (age 4 in case you were wondering) is pushing his scooter along the pavement until we get to an untarred area. Nathan tells him to pick up his scooter and walk with it, while T insists that he can push his scooter across the loose gravel. Bickering ensues. Nathan and I continue walking ahead

Dell purchased Alienware this week and I had no idea! Dell has officially announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alienware. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Alienware will keep all of its employees and continue to focus on gamer PCs as its own company. It also will continue

And blogging like a badass. Here are some tasty morsels I just found there: Black and white twins! A little girl who started using photoshop at age 3 1/2 and the Photoshop for Kids Page