Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Bing
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Web design tip for businesses, especially restaurants
Having a city name on the home page is a good idea.
Having the restaurant address is even better.
Chez Papa Resto's Web page doesn't cough up the address unless you drill down to the "Contact" page.
Address: 4 Mint Plaza San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 546 4134
Fax: (415) 546 4128
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Having the restaurant address is even better.
Chez Papa Resto's Web page doesn't cough up the address unless you drill down to the "Contact" page.
Address: 4 Mint Plaza San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 546 4134
Fax: (415) 546 4128
Labels: design, restaurants, San Francisco, webstuff
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Internet-resources.com Estimated Net Worth $10,614.20 USD
Someone dropped me a line today, asking to buy internet-resources.com and its content for something more than $1K and less than $2K.
Coinkadinkly, just now on Facebook I found an ad telling me they could tell me what my blog or Website was worth. Well, why not?
Internet-resources.com Estimated Net Worth $10,614.20 USD
Woo hoo.
How WebValuer got its numbers is anyone's guess. SiteMeter puts my pageviews and visitors a stretch higher than WebValuer has them. There's no ad revenue, even though WV estimates $3.84 - 9.60.* No ads, so no ad revenue.
Domains linking (est) 13,685.
Really?
Entertaining for five minutes or so. I need to get back to the guy who was offering cash for the content. (Serious? A scam? A hoax? ... No, thanks.)
* His nibs said, "$3-$9/day? That could add up over the long run. ..."
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Coinkadinkly, just now on Facebook I found an ad telling me they could tell me what my blog or Website was worth. Well, why not?
Internet-resources.com Estimated Net Worth $10,614.20 USD
Woo hoo.
How WebValuer got its numbers is anyone's guess. SiteMeter puts my pageviews and visitors a stretch higher than WebValuer has them. There's no ad revenue, even though WV estimates $3.84 - 9.60.* No ads, so no ad revenue.
Domains linking (est) 13,685.
Really?
Entertaining for five minutes or so. I need to get back to the guy who was offering cash for the content. (Serious? A scam? A hoax? ... No, thanks.)
* His nibs said, "$3-$9/day? That could add up over the long run. ..."
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Airbrushing History -- American Style and the Internet Archives (Thanks! Brewster Kahle!)
Airbrushing History -- American Style by Scott Althaus and Kalev Leetaru. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AIRBRUSHING HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE
Legacies are in the air as President Bush prepares to leave the White House. How future historians will judge the president remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: future historians won't have all the facts needed to make that judgment. One legacy at risk of being forgotten is the way the Bush White House has quietly deleted or modified key documents in the public record that are maintained under its direct control.
Remember the "Coalition of the Willing" that sided with the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq? If you search the White House web site today you'll find a press release dated March 27, 2003 listing 49 countries forming the coalition. A key piece of evidence in the historical record, but also a troubling one. It is an impostor.
And although there were only 45 coalition members on the eve of the Iraq invasion, later deletions and revisions to key documents make it seem that there were always 49.
The Bush White House seems to have systematically airbrushed parts of the official record regarding its own history. How extensively White House documents have been rewritten is anyone's guess, but in the case of the coalition list, the evidence is clear that extensive revision of the historical record has occurred.
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I remember reading about this a few weeks ago (end of November) and I thought, hm. interesting, but, this isn't the first time this has happened.
There was a fairly well-documented instance back when Enron was crashing, where the bio for the Honorable Thomas E. White, Secretary of
the Army, was revised to elide a couple paragraphs about all the wonderful things he had done at Enron to "From 1990 to 2001, Mr. White was employed by Enron Corporation and held various senior executive positions."
Seems folks would learn that you can't change history in these days of archives without someone poking around and finding out, but ... no.
As always, these little glimmers of change are brought to you thanks to Brewster Kahle, whose Internet Archive not only stashes away the original of versions later changed, but also offers up such gems as
The Grateful Dead Live at Winterland 17 Jun 1975
Warren Zevon Live at The Main Point 20 Jun 1976
Betty Boop Betty Boop for President -- 1932
India Travel film, India (c1930)
San Francisco San Francisco (1939) from the Prelinger Archives
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AIRBRUSHING HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE
Legacies are in the air as President Bush prepares to leave the White House. How future historians will judge the president remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: future historians won't have all the facts needed to make that judgment. One legacy at risk of being forgotten is the way the Bush White House has quietly deleted or modified key documents in the public record that are maintained under its direct control.
Remember the "Coalition of the Willing" that sided with the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq? If you search the White House web site today you'll find a press release dated March 27, 2003 listing 49 countries forming the coalition. A key piece of evidence in the historical record, but also a troubling one. It is an impostor.
And although there were only 45 coalition members on the eve of the Iraq invasion, later deletions and revisions to key documents make it seem that there were always 49.
The Bush White House seems to have systematically airbrushed parts of the official record regarding its own history. How extensively White House documents have been rewritten is anyone's guess, but in the case of the coalition list, the evidence is clear that extensive revision of the historical record has occurred.
[...]
I remember reading about this a few weeks ago (end of November) and I thought, hm. interesting, but, this isn't the first time this has happened.
There was a fairly well-documented instance back when Enron was crashing, where the bio for the Honorable Thomas E. White, Secretary of
the Army, was revised to elide a couple paragraphs about all the wonderful things he had done at Enron to "From 1990 to 2001, Mr. White was employed by Enron Corporation and held various senior executive positions."
Seems folks would learn that you can't change history in these days of archives without someone poking around and finding out, but ... no.
As always, these little glimmers of change are brought to you thanks to Brewster Kahle, whose Internet Archive not only stashes away the original of versions later changed, but also offers up such gems as
The Grateful Dead Live at Winterland 17 Jun 1975
Warren Zevon Live at The Main Point 20 Jun 1976
Betty Boop Betty Boop for President -- 1932
India Travel film, India (c1930)
San Francisco San Francisco (1939) from the Prelinger Archives
Labels: history, URL, webstuff
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wordle
Learned about Wordle via cygnoir. Played with it with my Delicious bookmarks as the resource.
Saved the Java applet results with CutePDF Writer, then pulled the PDF into Photoshop, messed with it and saved it as a .jpg.
Voilà!
So, a bit early, but heartfelt, nonetheless:
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Saved the Java applet results with CutePDF Writer, then pulled the PDF into Photoshop, messed with it and saved it as a .jpg.
Voilà!
So, a bit early, but heartfelt, nonetheless:
Labels: app, graphics, life, URL, webstuff
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Admire the new favicon up in the address bar
Monday, October 27, 2008
FYI. "The Comcast Newsgroups service has been discontinued."
FYI.
"The Comcast Newsgroups service has been discontinued. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have already signed up for Comcast Newsgroups, please be aware that this service will be discontinued on 10/25/2008."
A list of links to Public news servers
And (for a price!) by-golly! Giganews (which had been providing Usenet services for Comcast) will provide service for you too!
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"The Comcast Newsgroups service has been discontinued. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have already signed up for Comcast Newsgroups, please be aware that this service will be discontinued on 10/25/2008."
A list of links to Public news servers
And (for a price!) by-golly! Giganews (which had been providing Usenet services for Comcast) will provide service for you too!
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
MoJo Photo Blog: Aryan Outfitters
MoJo Photo Blog: Aryan Outfitters: "Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old 'Ms. Ruth' sews hoods and robes for Klan members seven days a week, blessing each one when it's done."
The Web is a wonder.
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The Web is a wonder.
Labels: photographs, webstuff
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Friday, September 05, 2008
Another Google Chrome Security Flaw Identified
Another Google Chrome Security Flaw Identified: "critical buffer-overflow"
For Pete's sake. We were talking about this just last weekend when the Bixby Creek gang got together at Donner Lake for the long weekend.
The question then was, "Why don't the software engineers at Microsoft check for buffer overflows when they're designing their software? Especially now when they should be overly aware that they have an ongoing problem?" Followed by, "Why don't the QA mavens at Microsoft check to make sure the software engineers have checked for buffer overflows?"
For. Pete's. Sake. People. Microsoft. Google. Anyone writing code.
This is a known issue with known solutions.
Sheesh.
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For Pete's sake. We were talking about this just last weekend when the Bixby Creek gang got together at Donner Lake for the long weekend.
The question then was, "Why don't the software engineers at Microsoft check for buffer overflows when they're designing their software? Especially now when they should be overly aware that they have an ongoing problem?" Followed by, "Why don't the QA mavens at Microsoft check to make sure the software engineers have checked for buffer overflows?"
For. Pete's. Sake. People. Microsoft. Google. Anyone writing code.
This is a known issue with known solutions.
Sheesh.
Labels: app, internet, webstuff
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Saturday, August 09, 2008
Orwell's Diaries
Orwell's Diaries
The Orwell Prize, Britain's pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell's diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell's domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.
Orwell's 'domestic' diaries begin on 9th August 1938/2008; his 'political' diaries (which are further categorised as 'Morocco', 'Pre-war' and 'Wartime') begin on 7th September 1938/2008.
The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them. Where there are original spelling errors, they are indicated by a ° following the offending word.
[via Laughing Squid]
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The Orwell Prize, Britain's pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell's diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell's domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.
Orwell's 'domestic' diaries begin on 9th August 1938/2008; his 'political' diaries (which are further categorised as 'Morocco', 'Pre-war' and 'Wartime') begin on 7th September 1938/2008.
The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them. Where there are original spelling errors, they are indicated by a ° following the offending word.
[via Laughing Squid]
Labels: blog, people, webstuff, writing
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Found at Looney's -- Matt's video
Watch Matt do his silly dance around the world from Thimpu to Timbuktu to the Giant's Causeway to Rio.
Like Looney, I'd never seen this before, although it's one of those viral things that swept the Web three years back. Where was I? Obviously not where Matt was filming his clips.
Looney said this was a happy vid and it is, but it also made me tear up a bit. All those places. All those people. Every one linked by Matt Harding and his silly dance.
Update: I figured what the tearing up was about. Matt and his dance reminds me of the younger nib, who will be "away" until June 2010 -- dancing, like Matt, with people he meets along the way.
Update2: An earlier Where the Hell is Matt? and another.
Labels: life, travel, web2.0, webstuff
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
101 Best Web Freebies
101 Best Web Freebies - BusinessWeek's take on the best free apps and such you can find on the Web.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Duende Travel
Duende Travel
Coming along, eh?
Pretty pictures. Content. Near to finished except for "useful information" and "links." The "booking form" is off to Peter for vetting.
Paying forward.
Personal blurb: Peter Watson and Duende Travel are like the best. The food and wine are always great. There's a lot of thought behind the itinerary.
There are gem moments: The hotel bar in Derry (North Ireland) -- just John Hume, his nibs and me. He'd sung Danny Boy to all of us during his lecture, but the others had gone back to rooms or whatever. Would you go back to your room while John Hume was hanging out? Or would you hang out too?
Drizzly picnic lunch in the ruins on Iona (Scotland).
Drying out from a soaking in the rain in a sheepherder's hut in Andalucia (Spain).
Petrarch's last home in Arquà Petrarca (Italy) and his cat's skeleton ... maybe ...
Walking in van Gogh's footsteps in Arles (France).
Hiking up the slopes of Vulcano (Sicily).
The Long Room at Trinity College, Dublin. (died and gone to Heaven)
... So many memories. So many good times.
Peter cares about where he takes you. He wants to make sure you understand the locale and the people. And the food. And the wine. And the history.
The walks are memorable. The views, the food, the wine, the settings, the memories are sublime.
'nough said? There's a reason I'm fussing over his Web site. ...
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Coming along, eh?
Pretty pictures. Content. Near to finished except for "useful information" and "links." The "booking form" is off to Peter for vetting.
Paying forward.
Personal blurb: Peter Watson and Duende Travel are like the best. The food and wine are always great. There's a lot of thought behind the itinerary.
There are gem moments: The hotel bar in Derry (North Ireland) -- just John Hume, his nibs and me. He'd sung Danny Boy to all of us during his lecture, but the others had gone back to rooms or whatever. Would you go back to your room while John Hume was hanging out? Or would you hang out too?
Drizzly picnic lunch in the ruins on Iona (Scotland).
Drying out from a soaking in the rain in a sheepherder's hut in Andalucia (Spain).
Petrarch's last home in Arquà Petrarca (Italy) and his cat's skeleton ... maybe ...
Walking in van Gogh's footsteps in Arles (France).
Hiking up the slopes of Vulcano (Sicily).
The Long Room at Trinity College, Dublin. (died and gone to Heaven)
... So many memories. So many good times.
Peter cares about where he takes you. He wants to make sure you understand the locale and the people. And the food. And the wine. And the history.
The walks are memorable. The views, the food, the wine, the settings, the memories are sublime.
'nough said? There's a reason I'm fussing over his Web site. ...
Labels: design, travel, webstuff
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Friday, January 11, 2008
The image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors
The image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors
Seems Firefox was complaining because some of the .jpgs Duende sent -- which I was trying to add to the site -- were in CMYK (print) instead of RGB (screen display). Makes sense. Duende'd sent the photos used in prior years' brochures.
Turns out 'tis simple enough to pull the .jpg into Photoshop. Go to the Image pulldown menu IMAGE->MODE and save the JPG as RGB instead of CMYK.
And Bob's your uncle.
Would that most of the world's problems were so easily handled.
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Seems Firefox was complaining because some of the .jpgs Duende sent -- which I was trying to add to the site -- were in CMYK (print) instead of RGB (screen display). Makes sense. Duende'd sent the photos used in prior years' brochures.
Turns out 'tis simple enough to pull the .jpg into Photoshop. Go to the Image pulldown menu IMAGE->MODE and save the JPG as RGB instead of CMYK.
And Bob's your uncle.
Would that most of the world's problems were so easily handled.
Labels: app, design, photographs, travel, webstuff
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
The top 12 'Top 10' lists of 2007 / Best movies? Music? Look elsewhere. Here's the real list to help digest the year gone by
The top 12 'Top 10' lists of 2007
Brilliant set of links from Mark Morford.
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Brilliant set of links from Mark Morford.
Labels: San Francisco, webstuff, writing
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Google Analytics
Having fun with Google Analytics.
I set up Google Analytics for Internet Resources for Writers the other day. Picked up my little bit of code from Google and added it to every page on the site.
I only have two days' worth of stats so far, but I've found out that 18% of my traffic comes from search engines, 32.5% comes from direct hits and the other 49.5% comes from links on other sites. Turns out of the 242 visits in the last two days, ninety of them came via stumbleupon. 37%!
I have a 60% bounce rate (meaning the visitor hit one page and left), which is sucky if you're trying to sell somebody something, but if someone wants a bit of information, finds it on the first page they look at and leaves, that's cool with me.
And if someone doesn't find what they're looking for (like the person who came via a search engine search for /dental office supplies free printable photos/), well, that's cool too. (I had to do that search to see if I really show up. I do! #4 on the returned hits!)
Other fun features of Google Analytics include a pretty map showing visitors' locations.
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I set up Google Analytics for Internet Resources for Writers the other day. Picked up my little bit of code from Google and added it to every page on the site.
I only have two days' worth of stats so far, but I've found out that 18% of my traffic comes from search engines, 32.5% comes from direct hits and the other 49.5% comes from links on other sites. Turns out of the 242 visits in the last two days, ninety of them came via stumbleupon. 37%!
I have a 60% bounce rate (meaning the visitor hit one page and left), which is sucky if you're trying to sell somebody something, but if someone wants a bit of information, finds it on the first page they look at and leaves, that's cool with me.
And if someone doesn't find what they're looking for (like the person who came via a search engine search for /dental office supplies free printable photos/), well, that's cool too. (I had to do that search to see if I really show up. I do! #4 on the returned hits!)
Other fun features of Google Analytics include a pretty map showing visitors' locations.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
A plea to anyone linking to Inkspot.com
A request from DebbieRO, my former Inkspot.com boss lady, on her Inkygirl blog.
If you have a link to Inkspot.com, PLEASE DELETE IT.
Pass the word.
A plea to anyone linking to Inkspot.com
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If you have a link to Inkspot.com, PLEASE DELETE IT.
Pass the word.
A plea to anyone linking to Inkspot.com
Labels: URL, webstuff, wordstuff, writing, writing-market
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Writing: A writer's treasure chest
Lifehacker mentioned the writing links compendium over at internet-resources.com on Saturday.
(Mega thanks to Grapes2.0 for the hedz-up. I wouldn't have known what hit me. ...)
Hits have soared (from hundreds a day to thousands a day) and I've been feeling like my e-house is a bit of a mess and in no state for the Queen to come visiting.
Yesterday and today, I've been spending time click-clicking through links, dusting, mopping and putting flowers out for the visitors. I'll do so again tomorrow, being as the contractor guys are paying us visits this week and I'm padlocked inside until they're gone.
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(Mega thanks to Grapes2.0 for the hedz-up. I wouldn't have known what hit me. ...)
Hits have soared (from hundreds a day to thousands a day) and I've been feeling like my e-house is a bit of a mess and in no state for the Queen to come visiting.
Yesterday and today, I've been spending time click-clicking through links, dusting, mopping and putting flowers out for the visitors. I'll do so again tomorrow, being as the contractor guys are paying us visits this week and I'm padlocked inside until they're gone.
Labels: internet resources for writers, life, webstuff
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Websites as graphs
Pretty, eh? That's the blog in living color. I could swear I'd done this before, a year or more back, but I can't find it, if I did indeed do it, so I've done it again.
Aharef provides the applet. You provide the Web page you want him to graph. He 'xplains it all here and also shows some mega sites and how they look with the app: cnn.com, apple.com &c.
Color code:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
Flickr has a collection of pics.
Nice.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Jimbo Wales at the Commonwealth Club. Wedn. 18 July 6 p.m. checkin
Jimbo Wales at the Commonwealth Club
Founder, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation and Wikia
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"Come hear Wales talk about what's next on his agenda, his opinions on the politics of the Internet and his thoughts on the accuracy of Wikipedia posts."
6:00 p.m., Check-in | 6:30 p.m., Program
7:30 p.m., Wine and Hors d'oeuvres Reception
Club office, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco
$12 for Members
$20 for Non-Members
$7 for Students (with valid ID)
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Founder, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation and Wikia
[...]
"Come hear Wales talk about what's next on his agenda, his opinions on the politics of the Internet and his thoughts on the accuracy of Wikipedia posts."
6:00 p.m., Check-in | 6:30 p.m., Program
7:30 p.m., Wine and Hors d'oeuvres Reception
Club office, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco
$12 for Members
$20 for Non-Members
$7 for Students (with valid ID)
Labels: culture, information, San Francisco, web2.0, webstuff
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
For my legions of IE-using fans
For my legions of IE-using fans. Well, at least for one very special one, that is.
A swell fambly member, who reads the blog, told me that she was getting a glitch (and probably always had but was too polite to say so) that was cutting off the lefthand side of the center column -- yes, the column that contains the guts of the blog.
"What browser do you use?" I asked.
"MS Internet Explorer," she replied.
I fired up IE, which I only fire up when something won't display on Firefox (a most excellent browser, btw, and one I highly recommend) or when I'm trying to make sure some Webby thing I'm working on will work for the IE user. ...
Turns out if you scrunch your screen down to a certain size, the lefthand and righthand columns scrunch down okay, but there's a big blob of space that blocks out the leftmost portion of the center column -- just the symptom the fambly member reported. I'm suspecting she uses a laptop and, hence, has a smaller screen but I can't remember.
Someone back when had mentioned the same thing, but after much tweaking at that point, I couldn't find a fix.
Times change. I created a Web site last spring that used a header, a footer and three columns to display and, after much torking around, found a way to make it work with IE, unless you squished the screen down far smaller than most people do. An older and wiser soul today, I took that experience and tweaked the blog template today so that the swell fambly member can read the blog using IE.
You'll notice more space between the columns but everything squishes down okay with IE now. (Unless -- goes without saying -- you squish the screen down far smaller than most people do, at which point the sidebars pop out from the edges and down onto the bottom.)
I had to remove the MyBlogLog stuff because it doesn't compress gracefully and caused the lefthand column to overrun and scoot down to the bottom of the page when using the smaller screen size in IE.
Barring those minor changes everything remains the same.
Un regalo por mi cuñada. Hope it works!
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A swell fambly member, who reads the blog, told me that she was getting a glitch (and probably always had but was too polite to say so) that was cutting off the lefthand side of the center column -- yes, the column that contains the guts of the blog.
"What browser do you use?" I asked.
"MS Internet Explorer," she replied.
I fired up IE, which I only fire up when something won't display on Firefox (a most excellent browser, btw, and one I highly recommend) or when I'm trying to make sure some Webby thing I'm working on will work for the IE user. ...
Turns out if you scrunch your screen down to a certain size, the lefthand and righthand columns scrunch down okay, but there's a big blob of space that blocks out the leftmost portion of the center column -- just the symptom the fambly member reported. I'm suspecting she uses a laptop and, hence, has a smaller screen but I can't remember.
Someone back when had mentioned the same thing, but after much tweaking at that point, I couldn't find a fix.
Times change. I created a Web site last spring that used a header, a footer and three columns to display and, after much torking around, found a way to make it work with IE, unless you squished the screen down far smaller than most people do. An older and wiser soul today, I took that experience and tweaked the blog template today so that the swell fambly member can read the blog using IE.
You'll notice more space between the columns but everything squishes down okay with IE now. (Unless -- goes without saying -- you squish the screen down far smaller than most people do, at which point the sidebars pop out from the edges and down onto the bottom.)
I had to remove the MyBlogLog stuff because it doesn't compress gracefully and caused the lefthand column to overrun and scoot down to the bottom of the page when using the smaller screen size in IE.
Barring those minor changes everything remains the same.
Un regalo por mi cuñada. Hope it works!
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Friday, June 29, 2007
LOLcat builder
For Mz UV 'cause she lurves LOLcats. Seen this?
LolCat Builder
Labels: app, photographs, webstuff
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StumbleUpon - SalT's Web site reviews
StumbleUpon - SalT's StumbleUpon Web site reviews
Since I started with StumbleUpon umpty ump (March 17, 2004) years ago, I've rated 1777 sites and, must admit, sometimes spend months without checking in. These days I not only put links on my blog but also put links on Tumblr and links on del.icio.us and, sometimes, on StumbleUpon.
I'm not dutiful about my StumbleUpon duties.
Obviously. ...
Just came across starspirit, who has rated 124,289 sites.
Zounds. Even gmc has only rated 17962 but then he's been busy building SU into something eBay wanted to buy.
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Since I started with StumbleUpon umpty ump (March 17, 2004) years ago, I've rated 1777 sites and, must admit, sometimes spend months without checking in. These days I not only put links on my blog but also put links on Tumblr and links on del.icio.us and, sometimes, on StumbleUpon.
I'm not dutiful about my StumbleUpon duties.
Obviously. ...
Just came across starspirit, who has rated 124,289 sites.
Zounds. Even gmc has only rated 17962 but then he's been busy building SU into something eBay wanted to buy.
Labels: app, life, URL, webstuff
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Monday, June 25, 2007
[URL] Swivel
Love data and mashups and obscure weird factoids and coincidences?
Check out Swivel.
For a taste of what's on-site, check out Tasty Data Goodies
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Check out Swivel.
For a taste of what's on-site, check out Tasty Data Goodies
Labels: information, resource, URL, webstuff
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Badgers! Foxes! Rabbits!
Badgers! Foxes! Rabbits!
New tumbleblog for stashing interrrrresting stuff. Between del.icio.us (still processing thousands of bookmarked URLs) and tumblr and stumbleupon and twitter ... I'm getting all Web2.0'd out.
posted by Sal Towse at 4:13 PM||
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New tumbleblog for stashing interrrrresting stuff. Between del.icio.us (still processing thousands of bookmarked URLs) and tumblr and stumbleupon and twitter ... I'm getting all Web2.0'd out.
Labels: app, life, URL, webstuff
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
[URL] popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz
popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz
Aggregate of W2.0 feeds like digg and reddit and boingboing. Someone called it a look at the hive mind. Probably a good analogy. Similar to and with more links than THEWEBLIST.net (which was inspired by popurls). Includes flickr links and fark.com.
Looking for article ideas? This site gives you a look at what's poppin.
[Caution: Can be a HUGE time waster ...]
posted by Sal Towse at 2:38 PM||
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Aggregate of W2.0 feeds like digg and reddit and boingboing. Someone called it a look at the hive mind. Probably a good analogy. Similar to and with more links than THEWEBLIST.net (which was inspired by popurls). Includes flickr links and fark.com.
Looking for article ideas? This site gives you a look at what's poppin.
[Caution: Can be a HUGE time waster ...]
Labels: app, social networking, URL, webstuff
posted by Sal Towse at 2:38 PM|
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
Archival nit pickiness
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Google adds "themes" to your Google homepage
I like plain ol' vanilla Google. It works. It's simple. No fuss. But earlier today, I decided to just check out the various themes that Google has developed for its Google homepages and settled on "city."
Very nice. Mellow. The colors and accoutrements change with the time of day and weather. (You need to give them a ZIP for it to work properly.) Right now it's shades of purple and blue with stars and a crescent moon. Nice.
My one concern is that the Googlelogo is a single, set color.
What happens when it's George Orwell's bday and the Google logomeister comes up with a spiffy logo-for-the-day?
All that remains to be seen, but the cityscape is nice and I'm enjoying it.
posted by Sal Towse at 11:10 PM||
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Very nice. Mellow. The colors and accoutrements change with the time of day and weather. (You need to give them a ZIP for it to work properly.) Right now it's shades of purple and blue with stars and a crescent moon. Nice.
My one concern is that the Googlelogo is a single, set color.
What happens when it's George Orwell's bday and the Google logomeister comes up with a spiffy logo-for-the-day?
All that remains to be seen, but the cityscape is nice and I'm enjoying it.
posted by Sal Towse at 11:10 PM|
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Monday, March 05, 2007
[URL] Craigslist Curmudgeon is the Yahoo! Daily Wire site of the day.
The Curmudgeon cranks on about Craigslist ads that offer next to nothing (or worse!) as payment for wordsmithing.
Yahoo! sez: The Curmudgeon's chief complaint: would-be content providers that offer wordsmiths no pay. More specific no-nos: ads offering piddling in-kind compensation, ads with dubious payment schemes, ads offering nothing but "exposure," and ads offering no pay for ridiculous assignments.
And the ad-meisters fire back.
Entertaining all around.
[nod to Yahoo! picks]
posted by Sal Towse at 10:43 PM||
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Yahoo! sez: The Curmudgeon's chief complaint: would-be content providers that offer wordsmiths no pay. More specific no-nos: ads offering piddling in-kind compensation, ads with dubious payment schemes, ads offering nothing but "exposure," and ads offering no pay for ridiculous assignments.
And the ad-meisters fire back.
Entertaining all around.
[nod to Yahoo! picks]
Labels: URL, webstuff, writing
posted by Sal Towse at 10:43 PM|
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
News! Cocoa may improve brain blood flow
One of the sessions I missed at AAAS was a session Sunday titled, "The Neurobiology of Chocolate: A Mind-Altering Experience?"
Harold Schmitz of Mars, Inc. co-organized the symposium. Mars, Inc. happens to be sponsoring research into why chocolate is good for you and how they can make it even better. (Heard of CocoaVia?) I'd spent time in a session a few years back covering similar and/or earlier research on the subject. This session covered recent research including a presentation by Ian MacDonald (University of Nottingham Medical School) on "The Effect of Flavanol-Rich Cocoa on the fMRI Response to a Cognitive Task in Healthy Young People."
Yee haw.
Luckily, there were science writers in the audience to suck it all up for me. CNN reports: Cocoa may improve brain blood flow
Sunday, I was elsewhere -- in an all-day seminar on Virtual Worlds which included papers like "Comparing Mental Health Applications Using Individually Administered Virtual Reality and Second Life: Conceptual and Ethical Issues" from Skip Rizzo, USC, and "Virtual Publics: Youths' Lives in Emergent Social Worlds" from Danah Boyd at UCB.
John Lester (AKA Pathfinder Linden) at Linden Labs organized the seminar. Linden Labs, just down the hill from me, is the creator (are the creators?) of Second Life, which I messed around with playing with after a panel at the Commonwealth Club that we attended last December.
I finally signed up yesterday but with my computer's hiccupy-response to requests to turn and move and change the color of my coat, my experience wasn't optimal. Problems with scaling? Problems with my computer? I'll try again later today and see if I get further.
Sorry I was to miss out on the latest scoop about cocoa, but the Virtual Worlds seminars were crack.
[Thanks for the cocoa link, Sam]
posted by Sal Towse at 7:45 AM||
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Harold Schmitz of Mars, Inc. co-organized the symposium. Mars, Inc. happens to be sponsoring research into why chocolate is good for you and how they can make it even better. (Heard of CocoaVia?) I'd spent time in a session a few years back covering similar and/or earlier research on the subject. This session covered recent research including a presentation by Ian MacDonald (University of Nottingham Medical School) on "The Effect of Flavanol-Rich Cocoa on the fMRI Response to a Cognitive Task in Healthy Young People."
Yee haw.
Luckily, there were science writers in the audience to suck it all up for me. CNN reports: Cocoa may improve brain blood flow
Sunday, I was elsewhere -- in an all-day seminar on Virtual Worlds which included papers like "Comparing Mental Health Applications Using Individually Administered Virtual Reality and Second Life: Conceptual and Ethical Issues" from Skip Rizzo, USC, and "Virtual Publics: Youths' Lives in Emergent Social Worlds" from Danah Boyd at UCB.
John Lester (AKA Pathfinder Linden) at Linden Labs organized the seminar. Linden Labs, just down the hill from me, is the creator (are the creators?) of Second Life, which I messed around with playing with after a panel at the Commonwealth Club that we attended last December.
I finally signed up yesterday but with my computer's hiccupy-response to requests to turn and move and change the color of my coat, my experience wasn't optimal. Problems with scaling? Problems with my computer? I'll try again later today and see if I get further.
Sorry I was to miss out on the latest scoop about cocoa, but the Virtual Worlds seminars were crack.
[Thanks for the cocoa link, Sam]
Labels: information, life, SecondLife, webstuff
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Don't ask me
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Welcome to Web 2.0
Saturday, January 13, 2007
[URL] WikiLeaks
How to leak a secret and not get caught - WikiLeaks from New Scientist Tech, 12 Jan 2007.
wikileaks.org
Good? Worthwhile?
Wikileaks opens leaked documents up to a much more exacting scrutiny than any media organization or intelligence agency could provide. Wikileaks will provide a forum for the entire global community to examine any document for credibility, plausibility, veracity and falsifiability. They will be able to interpret documents and explain their relevance to the public. If a document comes from the Chinese government, the entire Chinese dissident community can freely scrutinize and discuss it; if a document arrives from Iran, the entire Farsi community can analyze it and put it in context.
I give it a month before WikiLeaks is either so full of garbage as to be useless or the able meta monitors start shutting down "undesirable" wiks and creating WikiLeaks' own form of censorship.
(Cool logo, though ...)
posted by Sal Towse at 1:23 PM||
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wikileaks.org
Good? Worthwhile?
Wikileaks opens leaked documents up to a much more exacting scrutiny than any media organization or intelligence agency could provide. Wikileaks will provide a forum for the entire global community to examine any document for credibility, plausibility, veracity and falsifiability. They will be able to interpret documents and explain their relevance to the public. If a document comes from the Chinese government, the entire Chinese dissident community can freely scrutinize and discuss it; if a document arrives from Iran, the entire Farsi community can analyze it and put it in context.
I give it a month before WikiLeaks is either so full of garbage as to be useless or the able meta monitors start shutting down "undesirable" wiks and creating WikiLeaks' own form of censorship.
(Cool logo, though ...)
posted by Sal Towse at 1:23 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
