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Conditional server side includes and cookies

GS — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:24:36 +0000

I can’t write PHP or Javascript. I could learn, but I don’t have much interest. Most of my websites are good old-fashioned static HTML and I use server-side-includes a lot.

I thought I would write, in simple terms, about some of ways I’ve used them.
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Data costs threaten social networking sites

GS — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:47:24 +0000

Recently I wrote about the closure of free video-hosting services at both AOL and Brightcove. I suggested that no free hosting service can be relied on to be around forever, or even a year from now in the current economic crisis.

Today the Daily Telegraph reports that social networking sites, such as Facebook, face a ‘data cost crisis’, as advertising revenue declines from a position that wasn’t exactly lucrative in the first place.

Research by the consultants Deloitte suggests that the cost of storing electronic data ‘has soared to more than $100m (£68m) a year for larger sites, as users increasingly want to upload memory-hungry photos and videos’.

AOL pulls the plug on its user-generated content site

GS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:51:23 +0000

AOL is to close its user-generated content site on 18 December.

Content theft by reelstreets.com

GS — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:12:52 +0000

Manchester’s Odeon cinema subjected to a damaging ‘systematic and methodical’ assault to prevent preservation

GS — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:18:37 +0000

Manchester’s former Odeon cinema, on Oxford Street, has been subjected to a ‘systematic and methodical’ assault to prevent it being preserved, according to the man who tried to save it.

In the news

GS — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:55:42 +0000

Good manners to be taught in schools

Scientists demand inquiry over Wi-Fi

Birds and bees are hit by phone waves

Britain becoming a Big Brother society, says data watchdog

April was the hottest in 350 years

Online sales ‘will hit £78bn’

Deluge of complaints on minimum wage abuse

The scaremongering over terror threats is growing…

GS — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:06:33 +0000

…says person who read Home Secretary John Reid’s latest attempt.

Manchester and slavery

GS — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:35:26 +0000

Manchester’s wealth was founded on the cotton industry and dependent on slave-grown cotton. But the city was also at the centre of the anti-slavery movement.

Print journalists learn to use video

GS — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:29:58 +0000

The Guardian looks at how print journalists are beginning to use video and asks whether web video could mean a new ‘golden age’ for newspapers.

Free books

GS — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:03:51 +0000

Project Gutenberg has 20,000 free out-of-copyright books online. Page By Page Books is also worth a visit.