Whatever happened to The Teletubbies?

Having to sit through more than one episode of The Teletubbies can cause you to think of some very strange things…

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Cartoon Question 1

Who would win in a race between Speedy Gonzales and Road Runner?

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mailto links revisited

I’ve never talked about them before, but have recently found a fix for a problem that has plagued us for a while.

<a href="mailto:abuse@elfden.co.uk?subject=abusive spam">email abuse</a>

This is a simple mailto: link which adds the subject into the email, try it out: test email. This always worked fine for OE but was always problematical in other email clients like Pegasus.

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Renaming “elfin’s blog”

elfin’s blog was never very descriptive. In fact it hails back to why I originally used elfin instead of my real name. But that is another story and I have already written up the origins of elfin and elfden.

So why choose permanent tangent? Well it is has long been in my sig as My mind is on a permanent tangent, so it seemed like an ideal choice. Not sure why i didn’t think of it earlier!

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Extending the blog

I’m still tweaking and adjusting the look of WordPress, but I am almost happy with the current look and feel. I upgraded to version 1.5, which has the facility to ‘theme’ , this is incredibly useful.

Tweaking WordPress takes time, but I have, with the help of the support forums, managed to amend the standard (more..) link:
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Validator Bookmarklet

When checking sites for accessibility I quite often want to check more than one page at a time. Until now thios hasn’t been a problem. I have the relevant page bookmarked: WDG validator and I just click the ‘Validate entire site’ checkmark.
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