Web Resources

I’ve been making my own little websites for a little while now - www.jonksbargains.com; www.matnewton.com/mongolia and my most famous website (for a couple of days I was all over the news in Australia) www.savethemexicanwave.com.

The Mongolia one is my most recent and I’m highly cheesed that I didn’t make this discovery sooner.  Have you ever made a website only to notice a little error which requires you to go through 20 pages just to fix the same thing? I have. In the case of the Mongolia website, this happened maybe five or six times. Why couldn’t I just drag all the repeated code from the same file, I asked myself as I sobbed into my beer. (Ignore that last bit.)

Well today I found you actually can do this. It’s called Server Side Includes, one of the greatest inventions in the history of HTML.  A search for Includes HTML on Google will yield page after helpful page saving you hours and hours of time.

You can store HTML in a single file which can be accessed every time a new page is opened. I really, really wish I knew about this a week ago.

It’s not all that well known, but there’s a plug-in for Skype that functions as a lie detector, by detecting tension in the voice.

 The only problem is this - to prevent mis-use, at the start of the call the recipient is told that a lie detector is in use. Depending on your intention (such as mine), I think this defeats the purpose.

 However, what you CAN do is make an ordinary call over Skype to your buddy (or shady underworld contact, where it will be more useful) but tape it using audio capturing software. THEN you play that back through a Skype phone call and watch the lie detector thing light up like a Christmas tree. It could work, theoretically.

Here a couple of great resources for those interested in mens style:

www.styleforum.net

and

www.askandyaboutclothes.com

 These are the two ‘authority’ sites on mens style. There’s men on these forums with some highly particular and stringent ideas. There’s also the absolutely hopeless who need all the advice they can get!

At the very least, you’ll learn how to identify quality and value, learn about what constitutes a good fit and a whole lot more.