The Miscellany

A Miscellany of Useful(?) Pages for Webmasters and Others

This section of the website contains utilties which were originally developed for internal use. As we are fortunate enough to have a web hosting provider with reasonable bandwidth limits, we are able to make them available for others to use.

The URLEncode and URLDecode Page.
Convert strings to/from URLEncoding (as used in URLs and forms).

The Email Address Obfuscator page.
Address harvesting robots often can't parse HTML correctly.

Kelly Criterion
Optimal investment strategies for risky ventures.

ISBN10 to ISBN13 Converter.
If you love books, you know what these are and why they matter.

Recommended Books.
As consultants we often get asked to recommend books. Here are some of our recommendations.

Need Better Web Hosting?

We can only make pages like this available because we have reliable, reasonably-priced, web hosting services.

If you are looking for a better hosting company, we suggest you check out two companies we use:

Powweb.com
Good if their One Plan meets your requirements and with the best incoming spam filtering we've been able to find.

HostGator.com
Good if you have multiple websites, need to set up a website for a client (they have reseller accounts), or have more complex requirements. Apparently if you use the hostgator coupon code XYZZYXYZZY you get an extra discount.

Note

The above are affiliate links to the companies we actually use for hosting.