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Thanks for the encouragement! That actually reminds me - that stuff shouldn't even be in the client-code. And even if it should be there, methinks it ought to be scrambled somehow …

I think I know exactly what you mean - restrict the highlighted letters to be in a single direction. Something I was considering was changing the selection mechanics so that you cl…

Thanks for pointing that out - my IE testing has been sporadic at best! I'll definitely take a look at that.

Noted. At the moment I am just happy if anyone even visits the page though. But I realise that there is no clear direction to the new visitor. Another thing to add to the never-end…

So, after many years of kicking about little apps and not putting the full effort in, I decided to bite the bullet and get on with it. Very much inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card …

Find where you should aim with this handy utility: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts/dartsapplet.htm... (context: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts/ )

Yup, the start of the first sentence should read "An official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) told reporters today" rather than "An today". Bad markup being the culprit - …

Looking at my list of domains there are: * 118152 com domains ending in "book" * 14450 net domains ending in "book" * 8666 org domains ending in "book" which is going to require a …

37Signals covered this or something similar: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2087-smart-pasting-at-the-new... . Tynt ( http://www.tynt.com/ ) was the "culprit" in that case and look…

Another related bit twiddling resource: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html . The comments accompanying the code are interesting too.

"10:42am UTC: Compromise was due to a compromised SSH Key, not due to any software exploits in Apache itself."

Interesting – I wonder what the variance in the “kind” of sign-up might be. Perhaps those designs that highlight the “free” aspects will encourage a lot of try-outs that then bail …