The NTugo Network

DNS updates are a pain. They test your patience as you wait “up to 72 hours for your changes to propagate,” and often you need to know when it’s done. If you’ve ever moved from one web host to another, you know how tricky it is to make the transition seamless. You have to get [...]

Gone Wild by David McLimans. Caldecott Honor 2007 Drawing on the idea of pictograms McLimans has graphically depicted the letters of the alphabet. Each letter becomes an endangered animal of the world. An attempt was made to pick animals whose characteristics worked well with their respective letters. It is an old idea to use pictures to help [...]

Internet Explorer, a.k.a. the Web Designer’s Plague, unfortunately, isn’t available on the Mac. Many will say this is a good thing, but for designers, or anyone who makes many changes to their template, Internet Explorer is pretty much mandatory for testing. So many people use IE that you can’t afford to have too many major [...]

After our recent meltdown, it seems we forgot to point our shorter PotterSurf.com domain back to our server… It’s been fixed, and once again you can access the site from our shorter URL.

Via The Leaky Cauldron, a set report from the filming of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is now available. It sounds like the filmmakers usual attention to detail is still present, and that the film will follow the book fairly closely, despite some worries to the contrary, after hearing some…strange talk from Warner Brothers. [...]

I was working on a project recently that required a color picker. It didn’t take long for me to find Colour Lovers’ free DHTML Color Picker. It’s easily the best color picker script out there (that I’m aware of). The script is fairly easy to set-up, looks great, and it’s license-free. Colour Lovers hosts the script [...]

Damiana is a safe-keeper. Villagers of Tambleham and outsiders come to her to share the burden of their secrets knowing she is bound to keep the secrets safe. While she is giving birth to her own child, the King’s Safe-Keeper delivers a secret to her doorstep- a child. The two children [...]

Tempus Fugit, or “Time Flies” in Latin, is a very appropriate thing to say now. Lately, I’ve been busy. Since getting back from a bowling tournament out of town (don’t ask what my scores were…), I’ve been busier than ever. In addition to blogging every day, I’ve had a bit less time on the computer, [...]

The Leaky Cauldron has posted a large summary of a document recently released on the Lexicon trial. Read it here. I find issue with both sides, and still think that there should be a settlement.

There are countless “Make Money Online” blogs. Blogs attempting to make money by blogging, blogs trying to teach how to make money blogging, and blogs trying to make money online by teaching how to make money online. Many of the latter hadn’t made a cent off blogging before starting a blog on making money online. Enough [...]