Many many years ago before working for Anchor I built websites and I remember it sometimes being difficult to make things work the same way in every different browser available.

These days I’m a Mac user and granted Safari is not the most widely used browser but it’s been a while since I came across a site that failed so badly as this one.

In their defence, having told me that my browser might not work – they do provide a link to “proceed” anyway, the link takes me to this page:

Nice touch, and guess where clicking “here” took me to – back to the first page.

I know there will be plenty of people that will say I shouldn’t be surprised, what do you expect etc etc but seriously, it’s just not that hard to make a web page work in something other than IE anymore. WTF!!!!

But wait, there’s more, to get to this most helpful loop I had to go through this, and yes, that’s exactly how this page rendered in my browser.

If you’re in Sydney then you’ll be acutely aware of the extremes of temperature we are currently experiencing – and it’s only a few days after the start of Winter! Anchor is a carbon-neutral company and likes to promote environment-saving measures wherever possible so in our budget we allow for the purchase of thermal undergarments for each employee. A warm employee is a happy employee!

By dressing smart for work, we don’t have to unnecessarily make use of heating systems, cutting down on electricity use and ultimately helping the environment. Plus, you look like a real coding ninja when typing at your workstation with fingerless gloves

If your place of employment doesn’t provide for something similar, ask your boss about it. Or if you’re an adept systems administrator, you might consider switching teams and coming to work for us!

Neither are most of the other companies on the list.

In the past I’ve written about a few ways you can set up decent IP traffic accounting on your network. If you have already set this up and are champing at the bit for more ways your can increase situational awareness of your network state you can try one of the following tools related to pmacct:

• http://www.pmacct.net/pnrg/
• http://www.aptivate.org/Projects.BMOTools.pmGraph.html
• http://www.net-track.ch/opensource/pmacct-snmp/
• http://code.google.com/p/netact/
• http://projects.celuloza.ro/bwstat/
• http://www.pmacct.net/fe/
• http://sven.anderson.de/flox/
• http://www.ntop.org/
• http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/
• http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/
• http://etherape.sourceforge.net/

These tools allows you to graph and/or analyse your traffic data in a variety of ways. If you are currently using one or more of these, drop us a comment and let us know your success or failure stories!