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One thing about HTML that has always bothered me is that the language has no support for using one HTML file inside many other HTML files.
I’m used to writing programs in languages that encourage (or, at least, permit) modularity. For example, let’s say I am writing a group of programs in C, and all [...]

This is trivial, but I didn’t see it posted anywhere else.
Google has a wizard that generates code you can use to put their AdSense for Search on your site. The wizard allows you to change the colors of the search results page, so you can match the colors used elsewhere on your site.
What if you [...]

This post is about configuring mutt, fetchmail, and ssmtp to use a secure (encrypted) connection between your computer and your hosting provider when sending or retrieving email.
I have been using the Mutt email client on various flavors of Unix or Cygwin for a long time. I use fetchmail to retrieve email from my hosting provider, [...]

For the last twenty years, most of the United States has observed Daylight Saving Time from 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April until 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October.
Starting in 2007, Daylight Saving Time will be extended so that it begins at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and [...]

I had a bit of a computer adventure this week. I ran a program called “Eraser” - no link because it might be malware - which is supposed to wipe the unused space on your disk. (As a former IT pro, these sorts of programs always interest me.)
Now, there may or may not be a [...]