Cyberattack Lessons from China

Posted by admin on January 18, 2010

I sent the following bulletin to my mailing list, but I thought I’d include it here as well:
Dear Friends,
Google and Microsoft have been in the news lately over the latest cyberattack from China. This one involves an exploit found in Internet Explorer versions all of them. (full report: Microsoft Security Advisory (979352) – Vulnerability in [...]

Free Font, Clipart, and Background Download Sites

Posted by admin on January 15, 2010

Still cleaning out my bookmarks.
Here’s a list of places to download free font sets:

Fontspace
1001 Free Fonts

Free Photo Sites:

Free Digital Photos
DreamsTime
Pixel Perfect Digital
Freerange Stock
Morgue File
Free Pixels
Stock Vault
Image Base
Stock.xchng

Free Clipart Sites:

Icon Drawer
Iconka
Iconspedia
Free Icons Web
Vista Icons
Visual Pharm
Icon Stick

Freebiesdock
Web Designer Depot
Yellow Icon
Down Archive
Clker
Free Clipart Pictures

Free Background Sites:

Pattern Cooler
NASA

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Extended ASCII Character Codes Table

Posted by admin on January 13, 2010

This posting is mostly for me so I don’t have to keep looking these up every time I need one.

The extended ASCII codes (character code 128-255)
There are several different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table. The table below is according to ISO 8859-1, also called ISO Latin-1. Codes 129-159 contain the Microsoft® Windows Latin-1 [...]

Wordpress Code to Display Contents of One Category by Title

Posted by admin on January 8, 2010

This code was a PITA to find and i have a new ulcer forming that I am going to name, “Wordpress Codex.” What I wanted was to have just my most recent news items display separately from my articles and update dynamically in the body of an otherwise static homepage. (ie. NOT as a [...]