Textual Thoughts

Out of the box Textpattern does not provide the meta “description” tag for each article. Although there’s a keywords field available for each article under the “Advanced Options” link on the “write” page, the keywords tag is not included in the default template. I wanted to implement custom meta tags such as description and keywords [...]

Warren’s Playpen is a website which I set up a few months ago for my son. Warren loves to scribble, so I thought I would encourage him by setting up a personal website to showcase his doodles. Recently I tried to do a search on Google using the term “Warren Tam” and I was presently [...]

Check out IE7.com. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

The “Wikipedia”:http://www.wikipedia.org has an “article”:http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etisalat on Etisalat’s internet filtering (censorship) policy. “Etisalat”:http://www.etisalat.ae is the UAE’s state owned telecommunications company. It has a policy of actively filtering internet websites which are “inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE”. Apparently the websites which fall under the following categories are actively blocked in [...]

I have not been successful in accessing Skype’s homepage from Dubai. Now I know why. Skype.com has been blocked by the authorities here since April last year as reported on “Skype Journal”:http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/04/uae_blocks_skyp.php. However the VOIP service is still working. Only the homepage has been blocked to prevent UAE residents from purchasing Skype credit.