I found this neat web page, which shows the various instant messenger smiley icons side-by-side. The result “obviously” shows how Yahoo’s smileys look the least “tacky”.
update (2018): The link above no longer works. Sorry. 😞
Boing Boing talks about QR Codes - the latest and hottest fad among mobile users in Japan. While machine readable languages have been here since the beginning of computing, this is the first time that they are also a statement of “art”. QR codes are graphical equivalent of any text that you want, something similar to barcodes in purpose. But while barcodes were one dimensional (vertical lines of variable thickness), QR codes are two dimensional - (like the image on the right).Mobile phones with cameras are being equipped with image recognition software to interpret these images. Boing Boing mentions that people are using QR codes to mention their contact information, URLs, email addresses, etc.
Over the years I have tried various software to manage the content on my personal home page. From hand edited HTML, to a bunch of my own PHP scripts, to some *nuke software, and finally to Drupal.
So why did I finally shift over to WordPress?
The answer is simple - if all you would really be doing on your site is blog … get a blogging software.
The blog module of Drupal is good, but:
You dont need all that comes along with it - stories, books, modules, block, etc.