Chipping the web – from the simple, complexity

109 (decimal) is the smallest natural number that is palindromic in bases five and nine.

Kiltak pointed me to the Website Grader, from John Chow. Even if you’re not SEO-obsessed, this useful little tool can point out some things you may not have known about your site.  Check it out, it’s free!

Assaf provides a list of the do’s and don’t’s  dos and don’ts  does and don’ts  things to embrace and avoid when striving for coolness by association.

Thank you, Dave Winer.  It’s about time.  Recently, Doc fixed his feed problems, too, by migrating to WordPress.  I’d like to say that they both finally listened to me, but I doubt they even heard me — and besides, I was probably just cheering on the inevitable.

Scott Adams notices an alignment between the characters of Dilbert and the pieces in the game of chess.  Coincidence, or something more?  If it’s a universal pattern, then what piece are you in your game?  Me, I’m board.  Must be my checkered past.

I’m not planning on cashing in anytime soon, but it could make me an easy $3.2 million.  Or so they say (thanks, TDavid).

Ah, the wonders of the old Reverse-Polish HP calculators!

Paul led me to 101 more reasons why I like being independent.  Of course, there’s always the down-side.

Ilker had me rolling out of my chair, beating the floor, and gasping for air twice with the Uncyclopedia and 13 unfortunate brand translations.

Thanks for the link-love, Doug, Arjan, and Brian!

Widget watch:  Babul Babul uses the tag cloud widget.