Saturday, January 29, 2005

20 Questions to a Better Personality

Here's an interesting personality test I found via Whole Wheat Blogger

My results were:
Wackiness: 10/100
Rationality: 72/100
Constructiveness: 40/100
Leadership: 34/100

You are a SRDF--Sober Rational Destructive Follower. This makes you a Fountain of Knowledge.

You are cool, analytical, intelligent and completely unfunny. Sometimes you slice through conversation with a cutting observation that causes silence and sidelong glances. You make a strong and lasting impression on everyone you meet, the quality of which depends more on their personality than yours.

You may feel persecuted, as you can become a target for fun. Still, you are focused enough on your work and secure enough in your abilities not to worry overly.

You are productive and invaluable to those you work for. You are loyal, steadfast, and conscientious. Your grooming is impeccable. You are in good shape.

You are kind of a tool, but you get things done. You are probably a week away from snapping.

Addendum, 2004/07/19: this fits me 99%, there is a slight inaccuracy however. We are not necessarily completely unfunny. If we have a sense of humor (I do) it surfaces on the occasion with well-timed, completely dry, very sarcastic, wit. - Chase

Of the 84172 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 7.5 % are this type.

Thursday, January 27, 2005

A List Apart

A List Apart : "A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards."

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Huygens Pictures of Titan

Here's some links to pictures of Saturn's moon Titan from the Huygens probe:

ESA - Cassini-Huygens

NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn

Update: The Onion has a list of Huygens discoveries.

More Character Entity Info

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

A Simple Character Entity Chart : evolt.org, Code

A Simple Character Entity Chart : evolt.org, Code: "Character entity references in HTML 4"

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The IFRAME+SSL Problem

One of the common causes of the "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" message is the IFRAME+SSL problem.

If you're using SSL and have an IFRAME without an SRC attribute, the frame will start out displaying a nonsecure blank page which causes the warning. To get rid of the message you need to supply your IFRAME tags with SRC attributes that display secure content from your site.

If you don't know ahead of time what page the frame should display, just make a file that contains an empty html page and use that.

<iframe src="empty.htm"/>