DeeKnow’s Grotto

Workstations Dirtier Than Toilets - How often do you clean your keyboard and surrounding work area?  A recent study found that computer workstations harbour 400 times more health threatening bacteria than the average toilet seat

5:32:23 PM  

A "Keep Out!" sign to last 10,000 years? - The US Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo!

5:30:16 PM  

Comic Book Physics - University of Minnesota physics professor Jim Kakalios, is entering his second semester teaching an elective course for freshmen called Science in Comic Books. Or, as he calls it in his syllabus, "Everything I Know of Science I Learned From Reading Comic Books."

5:28:38 PM  

Added 'alumni.ac.nz' to isWaikatoURL function in the UOW.pm module. Was rejecting the contact CGI script form submissions. This leaves TTA and UniLink as other sites (amongst others) which will need this mod if they need to call any UOW.pm backed CGI scripts.

2:07:53 PM  

OpenCMS? - another thread on the CMS-List that'll be worth following, this time concerning an Open-Source project building a CMS. Replies so far seem pretty positive but mention a few problems with the browser based WYSIWYG editor.

11:28:02 AM  

Do CMS make bland sites? this thread on the CMS-List has been really busy this week. Loads of replies, mostly along the lines of "only as boring as the folks who build the templates" and the "techie vs designer" line. Quite an interesting read.

11:24:44 AM