The Storewars animated movie got me in stitches this morning. Much better than all the other hype about Episode 3 I have seen so far.

And I just remembered that I have foreseen it:

Somehow I think the council has to wait a long time for this parking fine to be paid:

I’ve seen many clamped cars, and many with stolen tires, but never one that got its tires stolen after it has been clamped.

From time to time, we need to display links as plain URLs in a text.

The problem with URLs is that per definition they don’t contain spaces (yes, sloppy developers or maintainers use spaces in filenames and risk broken links, but nobody should).
No spaces in long words in HTML means that the text does not break into several lines when there is not enough space. This can seriously wreck a layout.
Furthermore, long URLs don’t look nice and stop the flow when reading a text.

A lot of blogging tools and CMS offer backend scripts to constrain the length of submitted URLs, for example in comments.
A friend asked me if that could also be done on the client side, and I wrote shortlinks to do that.

It is a small script that checks each of the links in the document for a http: start and if it is longer than a defined length. If that is the case, the script takes out some letters either at the end of the URL or in the middle and displays the shorter version. You can define a title with the full URL to be added.

I am currently looking for cheap rebates for some company licenses of the Adobe Creative Suite 2. This ebay listing is my favourite. How stupid does this guy think bidders are?

You are bidding on the whole Creative Suite 2 from Adobe. It comes as a DVD with a Total Training video CD. The product is a fully operational, licensed version with all programs working but the DVD does not have the Adobe logo on it, thats all. This is because Adobe charge a LOT more for their color printed DVDs, than the ones provided, since the ones provided are exactly the same, the only difference is how much money you are saving.

It seems perfectly innocent at first, but am I a bad person for finding the logo of this oriental institute a bit naughty?