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27th March 2007

printfetish

Awesome! “News, information, reviews and history on the subjects of beautiful magazines, self-published ‘zines, handmade books, small press, comix, art books and miscellaneous printed ephemera.”

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27th March 2007

Networking for People Who Hate Networking

“Today’s careers are made and broken by one’s ability to network. Please don’t post comments about how unfair this is — I know that people who are bad at networking think it’s not fair that the world rewards networking so much. But that’s the way the world is. You’re not going to change it by whining. Instead, be giddy: Networking is actually a lot easier than you think. Here are five reasons why…”

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27th March 2007

Creating User Friendly 404 Pages

“We understand what 404 means: Page Not Found. But the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it’s yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak. Consider the default 404 page under IIS…”

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