Forcing your webpage content to scroll is generally a bad idea

Every so often, website designers do things that make me clutch myhead like a stunned monkey, so today I have an open letter for them.

Dear website designers: please understand that stuffing your pagecontents into a restricted space and forcing it to scroll when itdoesn't fit is not a good idea, at least not if you want people toactually read it. No one likes reading content through a little viewportwhen they have their full browser window available, and reading contentthat requires horizontal scrolling is generally


人民英雄

人民英雄

譚作人:做中國人特別困難。

見證最後的美麗
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Sony Cyber-shot 新三劍俠

昨晚剛出席了Sony Cyber-shot安排的博客活動,除了享受了一頓「一個海港只有一個海港城」的無敵海景晚餐外,更開心的是有機會第一時間把玩了Sony Cyber-shot的三部新機。

這是一貫的Cyber-shot的產品宣傳策略,絕少單打獨鬥,通常一定會

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紅雙喜: 小露寶與小甜甜

新年紅色, 撞正情人節, 玩具剪報也特別來個紅色特集.

我在1980年出生, 對七十年代的動畫沒有特別強烈的感覺. 如果自己早出生幾年, 可能已是個有玩具情意結的Kidult. 當時的小朋友不會上高登、玩facebook、打Wii, 只靠收看日
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拜年衫



過新年, 名正言順要買新衫過節. 我正是那種著到褲穿窿, 永遠煩惱如何參透穿衣之道的人. 新衣服都預備好了. 想起數月前曾翻箱倒篋, 找出一件舊衣拍照留念. 這件衣服很有紀念價值, 但我永遠不可能再穿了. 這是我六、七
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<青蛙王子>的哲學問題

<青蛙王子>的故事大家都耳熟能詳,無論喜歡與否,大概不會認為那是個很複雜的故事。其實呢,這個故事充滿了哲學問題,只要你思考一下,看似簡單的情節便會變得很難理解。讓我舉些例子:

- 故事說王子被巫婆施法變成

Beware of using Linux's hostname -s switch

The hostname program has a common switch, -s , which is documented(in the Linux version) as:

-s, --short
Display the short host name. This is the host namecut at the first dot.

Although you would not expect it from this description, running' hostname -s ' will do a gethostbyname() and thus often a DNS lookupin most Linux versions of hostname . This can of course fail if yourDNS is not working, which winds up with the very peculiar result


Some thoughts about 6to4

I've previously written about theproblems with the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, and how the IPv6 peoplecould have made it easier . Well,it turns out that I have to take back some of the grumpy thingsthat I said back then because I just found out about 6to4 , which makes IPv6 connectivityfairly trivial for machines with public IPv4 addresses (and generally itworks), partly by embedding the IPv4 address space into IPv6.

(I'll let you read


天才需要誰?

這個城巿實在太需要天才了,枯乾無味的生活、毫無驚喜的事業、等待死亡的退休、醜聞不休的名人,有沒有甚麼事可以讓人覺得,這個地方真的有希望在明天呢?我們實在需要天才,一個天賦異稟的少年人,年紀輕輕十二、三

Getting a Views Page Display to Appear Inside an Organic Group

I have been hitting my head against a wall for a few weeks now, trying to get a few different Views-created pages to appear as if they were normal pages inside an Organic Group (meaning they would appear inside og-menu-enabled menus for that particular group, and group blocks would also appear on the pages.

After reading up on the thread " Organic Groups and Views 2 ", I found that I could use an argument to help solve my dilemma. Here's how I set up an