I usually avoid "email" links in order to keep these addresses being collected by harvesting bots, which might result in an increase in the amount of spam at is sent to the harvested email address.

In order to avoid being collected, developers have moved away from creating email links and instead have opted for just visually presenting the address in many different ways. Although this might prevent the address being harvested, it eliminates the convenience and usability for your visitors. After all, you want your visitors to easily use your website, specially if you want them to contact you.

Over the weekend I came across Lucian Slatineanu’s blog Badboy Media and specifically his "Hide yourself" entry where he Lucian discusses the same issue and provided a javascript function that provides the best of both worlds: usability and keeping your email address private from bots.

Based on the comments on his entry, there was a need to be able to use the same functionality but for multiple users. I had a few minutes to spare and I was able to makes some changes to his original function to allow you to hide more than one email address with the same piece of code.

Check out the working demo and the source if you are further interested in the script.

After a 6-10 season the Cardinals have decided to make some changes, from their coaching staff to their team logo. According to the Cardinal’s management, the new logo should represent a tougher and faster and meaner player.

This is a side by side comparison of both logos, the old one on the left hand side and its meaner counterpart on the right. New uniforms are expected to be unveiled in the next few weeks too. Hopefully the new bird will bring more wins with it next year.

One of my favorite programs on my PowerBook is Quicksilver. It is a great tool to quickly access applications and information from a very simple to use keyboard interface. It is one application that I wish was available for all platforms that I work on.

I am very glad to have found the Launch Box project. Although not quite ready for the masses, I am excited to see other platforms starting to support this concept.

I have been thinking about using my iPod to listed to some of my class lectures while commuting to work. To do so, I need to take the class video file and convert it to an audio-only file that I can copy to my iPod. I am looking for a free/inexpensive video (windows media) to audio (mp3) converter utility. Any ideas or suggestions?

I recently had to install a small client application to several computers around the office. The installation process involved copying the files from a cd to a specific folder, no installer or anything like that. However, I had to create the application shortcuts by hand and although not hard, I had the idea to automate the process as a learning experience.

Instead of creating a batch file I decided to go use a windows scripting file or wsf to use it as learning opportunity. A wsf allows you to use any number of scripting languages as well as xml elements to define some of the actions you want to execute. It also allows you to separate different actions into jobs, something that might be helpful but I found it rather awkward because you cannot execute a second job after you finish with the first one.

I am not an expert on this area or know enough to recommend when to use or not use a .wsf file . However, I am glad that I took a few minutes to pick this up find out more about Microsoft’s Windows Scripting Host.

My .wsf file basically creates a new shortcut under the programs in the start menu and also creates one on the desktop. The most complex piece of logic involves checking weather or not a folder already exists to create the new shortcut in the start menu. You can read over it and put it together yourself without any trouble.