Fishing
Anita has written an article on latest fishing expedition. Based on the success of that trip we are planning a dawn fishing expedition tomorrow! Long weekends rock!
Urimod : Modify URIs in HTML
Urimod is a small perl script to modify URIs in HTML. More specifically it is a tool to change URIs/URLs from mixed type (i.e. relative or absolute) to another (relative to document root). Urimod can change URIs in a whole directory tree of html files or in a single file. It is most useful for ensuring a consistent URI format across a website. Urmod can change URIs in anchor, image or link html elements.
Check out the urimod page for more info.
Internet Time Travel
In one of my earlier posts I refered to the web.archive.org (“Way Back Machine”) archive of my old site. I found this quite an interesting experience looking at my old sites and seeing how they had changed over time and it got me thinking about how other, higher-profile, web sites have changed over time.
So, here are some examples of some sites we love (and some we hate) and how they have changed over time. Archives started in 1996 so, whilst many of these sites existed before this time, we are unfortunately only able to see archived content from this date onwards.
www.google.com
Yes, that is Google’s original logo. It’s easy to forget where Google have come from and in such a short space of time. In 1998 they had just started out and their only buisness was internet search. Now they offer a huge range of services and their arsenal is growing by the day. Interestingly, of all the examples here Google’s home page has changed the least. The most marked change is the refinement of their logo. Refinement is the word - throughout the whole time Google has managed to maintain it’s identity.
View www.google.com in the Way Back Machine.
www.zeldman.com
Zeldman has chopped and changed his site many times over the years. At times evolving. Other times changing radically. The most enduring design being his latest incarnation.
View www.zeldman.com in the Way Back Machine.
www.alistapart.com
Also the brain-child of Zeldman, A List Apart has been around since 1998. The site initially had a fairly consistent style but has undergone a number of revamps recently.
The site was used to advocate standards compliance around 2001/2002 by adding an .ahem css rule to their style sheet which would hide a standards warning in standards compliant browsers. Unfortunately, the Way Back Machine does not archive the imported style sheets containing this rule so the archived versions show this warning in standards compliant browsers aswell. Since this was the method also used to link all the style sheets in the 2003, 2004 & 2005 incarnation of ala, the styling is completely broken for this period in the acrhive. Note, however, that the content is perfectly preserved - hurrah for standards!
View www.alistapart.com in the Way Back Machine.
www.microsoft.com
The redmond software company was already a behemoth by the time 1996 turned up and their site had been a round for some time. The attitude to standards then appears to have been “What Standards?”. Though they appear to have finally cottoned on. There appears to be a bit of a black hole in 97 - which I can only presume is the result of a robots.txt or the like preventing archiving of the material.
View www.microsoft.com in the Way Back Machine.
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The Fluff at the Capitaine Bougainville 1
Some friends of ours formed a band some time ago. The band is currently known as “The Fluff”. They had their first gig last night at the Capitaine Bougainville Theatre at Forum North, Whangarei.
Their gig was part of the Whangarei District Council staff concert so the whole thing was pretty informal. It was a pretty big audience though (est. 70-100 people) so they were all pretty apprehensive but their act went down really well.
Photos
Here are some photos from their act - unfortunately we neglected to take our camera so I only had my cellphone to take pictures.
The night finished up with these guys (yes, guys..). Lucky for them it will be hard to identify them from this photo:
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