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Feb 24, 2008 Why you should not use a reserve on your ebay auction

Why you should not use a reserve on your ebay auction eBay, along with many other auction services, have a so-called-feature that allows you to place a reserve on your auction, for a nominal fee, of course. If you don't know what an auction reserve is, it allows you to list an auction starting at a low price and basically if the auction does not get bid to at a certain set price, then the whole thing is void and nobody wins, wasting everybody's time involved. I absolutely despise this concept.

Feb 03, 2008 Temporary failure in name resolution in PHP script

This error popped on one of my clients website and it got me stumped. Through SSH, the DNS seemed to work fine. I could run host domain.com, curl, wget, etc - but when php would try to load the url, it failed with the above error. I tried setting different DNS resolver servers, restarted services, and checked for config errors but could not find the source of this problem. So I then turned to google.

Jan 26, 2008 How to make a CSS menu

How to make a CSS menu A menu is nothing more than a list of links for navigation, so the most ideal way to code your menus are by using a list, styled with CSS. This makes the styling ability very flexible while keeping the content-end of the list completely separate from any styling and in a format that is easy to read when style sheets are not in use or disabled.