Archive for October, 2008

The New Zealand Web Harvest 2008 Harvests Too Much

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I was looking through the server logs for this site tonight and I noticed a user-agent that I hadn't seen before. It turns out that the National Library of NZ is trying to take a snapshot of all New Zealand sites to archive as part of their mandate to preserve ...

Javascript and Saved Passwords

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

First some facts... Fact 1: None of us can remember the passwords for the dozens of web sites we re all registered on. That is why web browsers all optionally store logon information and automatically fill out logon pages when we revisit a site. Fact 2: Web browsers do all support a special type ...