A Tale of Hotlinking

For the uninitiated, “hotlinking” (also known as inline linking) is where you embed an image in a web page, but instead of that image being on the same server, the page links to an image elsewhere on the web and downloads it from there each time. Great you might think, I don’t have to worry about storing the image on…

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Miniature Websites

It’s amazing what you can find in the Web when you’re idly surfing! Can’t even remember how I came across this little gem, but it is a little slice of Internet history it would seem (although I don’t remember hearing about it at the time). Built by Alan Outten in 2002 Guimp claimed to be the “World’s Smallest Website”… not…

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QR Code for Website

In the spirit of doing something just because I can, I decided to generate a QR Code for this website. Of course if you can see this you already know the address, but over time this is something I can start adding to paperwork and suchlike. Generated using “Barcode Assistant”, which is the best (free) application I’ve found for the…

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