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Member since: Feb 16th, 2007

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Web developers can breathe a sigh of relief with Firebug (Download Squad)

Jul 12th 2008 8:46PM We have just put a two page PDF / PNG cheat sheet for Firebug online with all keyboard shortcuts etc. after we could not find one anywhere online.

It's at http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2008/07/12/794/


Plaster Georgia Tech / MIT's unmanned spacecraft with logos, text (Engadget)

Feb 16th 2007 12:10PM We had a bit of longer story on that last November. At that time most of the ad space was still available.

Have a look at:
http://www.duvet-dayz.com/archives/2006/11/03/123/

Anyway we hope its going to work out for the students at MIT and GeorgiaTech and they get a good amount of extra money together.

Alexa is 100% wrong and you can game it with as few as three machines--or so I've been told. (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Nov 25th 2006 11:28AM Good point Jason, and it was sooooo overdue that somebody says something about it. Just have a look at the related sites they are pointing to for some of the most popular web sites. It's ridiculous.

Anyway we don't believe spamming sites is a way to solve that. Let's just create something better that is not bound to tracking of mob movements or historic data.

But you're very right to put that up on the agenda as so many people are tracking the success of your web presence by an obviously broken mechanism. And of course somebody seemingly has to proof the facts out loud.

BTW: Never understood how their mover and shaker "selection" works (we once had a peak on our site that should have put us into the list but "surprisingly" while the numbers where shown when displaying the details for our site on Alexa some "small" movers were on their list. Must be a manual pick...