Many of you might have heard of Murphy’s Law, which broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.

In an Episode of Mythbusters I watched recently, there happend to be a flat car tire in the very last moment before a bigger experiment (When everbody thought that nothing could go wrong anymore). Adam Savage then said something cool regarding Murphy’s Law:

Well it goes like this:

If you’re doing something and there are no problems the whole way through, there’s bound to be some major scrub at the very end.

But if you encounter a series of small problems along the way
Murphy’s Law dictates that:

That will take care of the problem gods and you won’t have a major disaster along the way.

So.. hopefully this is one of those nice small problems that is easy to deal with.

Adam Savage in the Mythbusters Episode “Mega Movie Myths”

This is an interesting explanation including true statements. I like it a lot because it is so adaptable to your daily life as well as all kind of projects, your work and what not.

Do you have encoutered any exemplary “problems” that match exactly this phenomenon? Feel free to post about it in a comment!

On a nice sunny sunday like today there’s nothing more exciting than checking your webstats. While browsing the freshlabs-referrers today there was a new top-site among the top ten, namely ats.webqualite-concept.com.

I took a quick surf to the URL and instantly yelled Sacre Bleu! My browser showed something quite familiar. Check out these screenshots:

This french guy just did a 1:1 rip of our agency website – totally ignoring the copyright in the page footer! At least he found out how change two color-values in the stylesheet, but all images and half of the links and the navigation still pointed to our own domain (In fact that’s why we only discovered this traffic theft). Needless to mention that all window titles said “Document sans nom” which is probably the default setting in Front Page.

Well, we knew that the recent entry at webcreme would bestow us a few more visitors – it’s also nice to get mentioned and linked to – but this french kissing truly was a bit rousing.

If this the way the French put Egalité and Liberté into practise I strongly recommend to secure your online intellectual property against hotlinking (In any other case, too).

Update: Everything clear now — The owner of the domain has apologized for his actions and stated he just wanted to learn from our design. The plagiarism site is also offline.

I bet you too have been struggling with you iTunes equalizer settings more than once. If you set the sliders to the following values you’ll get a clean, crisp and saturated sound (depending on you overall Hi-Fi setup, of course):

Every frequency range reaches from -12 to +12, divided into steps of 3.
In numbers, the approximate values are:
db +3, +6, +9, +7, +6, +5, +7, +9, +11, +8 db.

Please note that the sound experience with these settings may vary, depending on your speakers and your subjective perception. But I was astonished about how this EQ setup made my cheap desktop speakers emit a more fulminant sound than with other settings.

Source: macosxhints.com