When I received Shel Silverstein’s CD to review, I was excited as I love his works (the children’s stuff) and I thought it’d be a great tool for practicing my listening skills. I was disappointed that most of it was set to music, but I didn’t let that interfere with my review as I have … Read more
I got an email from an anonymous coward (email bounced) saying that it’s wrong to use a div in the headers. Gee, really? Excuse my ‘tude. I appreciate it when people write in about a mistake of mine, but not when they do it anonymously and with a finger shaking attitude that says, “Wrong-o, buster!” … Read more
Even with high-quality Web editor applications, it’s good to know how to do markup. While there are plenty of excellent HTML introduction tutorials out there on the Web, most of them teach with deprecated (obsolete) markup. Knowing about deprecated markup is helpful so you can read the source of older Web pages. But why learn … Read more
Recent events, such as Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami, are strong motivators that businesses need to be on the ball by having backup plans in place. It’s tempting to think that such disasters will never happen to your company because you’re located on some land-locked oasis in the middle of nowhere, but not all disasters … Read more
Having been in process management in a software organization for over ten years, I’ve seen too many articles and books on the topic that worked better than Valium for putting me to sleep especially since they have no side effects. Joel Spolsky is known as one of the best (if not the best) writers on … Read more
InformIT has many excellent articles this week and I believe they’re worth sharing. * Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan from a DBA perspective. . Another article on the same topic. Between 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, businesses need to take disaster recovery and business continuity planning seriously. Sadly, many didn’t learn from 9/11. * The Tipping … Read more
I feel like Harry Potter, now that I’m an official wizard who finished the course based on the book, Call to Action by the Eisenbrothers behind Future Now. They provided insight into designing sites for conversion. I followed most of the course without a problem, it gets tricky when people ask questions or the presenter … Read more
Hank Stroll, the head guy at InternetVIZ, sent me this email he received. I think it’s funny because it asks you to stop by next weekend for brunch and coffee. Sure, Hank from Minnesota, can just take his super fast airplane like it’s a walk down to the nearest coffee shop. It’s a waste to … Read more
Glad to see it is possible to see a Meryl Evans promoted to a big job — Meryl Evans Promoted to Vice President of Administrative & Information Services at Electro Rent Corporation. Oh, it’s not me. Me a math major? Now that’s funny. Interestingly enough, Meryl went to college and worked in Texas. Too weird. … Read more
Bryan Eisenberg brings up the rules we have in our subconscious, but no one speaks them. This happens for everything in life… work, family, school… only his rules are not quite obvious. We’re not all thinking about “Click here” or “Read more” links, but it happens often enough for him to comment. I’m not a … Read more