Hi! My name is Dean Chew. I am a 25 year old from the UK and in this blog i put anything i wish to talk about :o)
Jul
4
I had to laugh at this when i was reading BBC news today. Not because BBC news is particularly funny, on the contrary, since most of our news is dominated by youths getting stabbed up in London… innit blood?
No. The reason i was laughing is because Google are facing some issues with street mapping in [...]
Jul
2
I have been enjoying using the latest version of Wordpress but i am getting seriously pissed off with the fact that every time i try and upload an image i am presented with some red text that tells me “HTTP Error”.
As you can see that text is really not very helpful, so its hard to [...]
Jun
27
Then the speed dial extension is to blame!
I don’t really want to write this because i love speed dial so much, but i have to admit that it is really starting to piss me off. Every single time i write something in a text area i lose focus.
It means that every time i am writing [...]
Jun
23
I have decided to get off my slightly fat ass and start going to the gym, we have a fitness first which is situated right between my house and the tube station i use so there is no excuse for me not going to the gym since i will have to walk past it.
So whilst [...]
Jun
20
Super quick post…
My friend Sean who runs Joules clothing sent me a link to this site today, its an absolute gold mine of resources for web designers and developers.
Check it out for yourself and be very impressed
http://www.forwebdesigners.com/
Jun
13
I recently got the chance to speak on Whiteboard Friday over at SEOmoz, it was a quick session whereby a few SEO’s just give up a couple of tricks that the general population may not be aware of, i chose to talk about cookie stuffing.
Cookie stuffing is not new and has been blogged about a [...]
Jun
12
Real quick post, but yesterday I got a lively email from Google telling me that my adsense account had been banned because of click fraud. The strange thing is that i have adsense code on only one site and that site has been down for at least two weeks.
I used the please-be-nice-and-let-me-back-on-adsense form and tried [...]
May
20
I was chatting away with EvilGreenDonkey and he told me about a Firefox script that he found called speed dial, so i installed away and now i am loving it.
What is speed dial?
Speed dial allows you to open thumbnails of your favourite sites in one tab or window. You basically add the sites that you [...]
May
15
Good old Google, always helping out the little guy when they can, and as such today see’s the realeae of Google Doctype. You would be forgiven in thinking that in their quest for world domination that they have now created their own doctypes to rival the W3 standards, but that hasn’t happened…. yet.
Instead Google Doctype [...]
May
9
Not sure if this still works, but if you want to have a bit of fun/really piss people off then tell them (say it gives their name cool colours or something) to set their name or status (in some cases just get them to type it into the chat window) to this string… n—a_Á—ay±m—aÁÇáç±Çáß±Çá§ÁaÇáDZOÇá—±Ç᧱Çár×ÁÇá+NÇáLáÇá
It buffer [...]
