Archive for April 2002

When I went to Washington, DC last March, I took my digital camera since I didn’t have one when I lived there for six years. Alas, I didn’t get too many opportunities to capture the city while there, but I created a small photo album of what I managed to capture. I guess I’ll have to scan the real photos someday.

Removing the Ws from URLs in Apache makes me wish I had access to my Apache server Unix prompt. Actually, I’ve been wanting that for awhile, but seeing articles like this… I want to try out tricks like this one. [Link Webreference]

I returned to Washington, DC in April 2002 as part of a leadership program’s trip to the hill. I never thought I’d call any other place outside of Texas "home," but Washington, DC qualifies since it’s the only other place I’ve lived outside the Lone Star State.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials offers tips on new features in Photoshop 7.0 where you can learn about the healing brush and how it helps to restore blemished images instantly. Also, discover the new paint engine and how to create new brushes that mimic the look of everything from chalk to oil paint.

The Adobe Support page lists top support issues and has a searchable knowledgebase. It came through for me when I kept running into a problem that crashed Photoshop.

The Joy of Tech has one that a lot of my bloggin’ buddies can relate to. Anyone got a well designed Web site they’d like to recommend to me for a project I’m working on?

A Day, and a Toy, for a Daughter explores Take Your Kid (politically correct, OK?) to Work Day along with a Fisher-Price Pixter, which has been billed as a Palm for kids. Don’t expect kids to start storing addresses and homework assignments with it, it has a touch-sensitive screen that lets the kids play games.

I guess it’s like a training PDA?

My city doesn’t support Take Your Kid to Work Day. If you take your kid out of school for it, it will be considered an unexcused absence. On one hand, I agree taht school is important. On the other hand, doesn’t it pay for our kids to see what our day is like when they’re in school?

Today is movie day. Netflix has an Easter Egg list for DVDs. Next time you rent or buy one of these movies, see if there is an Easter Egg for a little surprise.

I love inserting a little Yiddish-speak now and then. Gretchen pointed to a great site so I can add bobkes to my vocabulary: Common Yiddish Words.

<edit>To get help with pronunciation, refer to the Famous Kosher Nosh Yiddish Expressions List</edit>

Flash MX continues to make news in the Web design world and ALA releases a double issue covering Flash MX. Accessibility expert, Joe Clark, evaluates the software from an accessibility point of view. See if it makes the grade.

Andrew Kirkpatrick of CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media views Flash MX from a developer’s perspective showing how to create accessible Flash content and where there are still roadblocks in the program.

Now, if only I had time to play with Flash MX and see it for myself. I should make it a rule not to buy any additional software until the book is finished. I guess the closest I can come to seeing it for myself is by wearing the product’s cool cap that Victor of The Stand Out Training Company sent from down under. If I lived there, I’d go take his class.

raising hell is having its first contest and appropriately, it’s related to mother’s day.

“In 250 words or less, give us your best funny/alarming/bizzarre anecdote about your mother/grandmother/stepmother mothership or that of your mother/grandmother/stepmother/s mothership.”

Where’s a story when I need one? ‘Course I’m blanking with all the pressure I’ve been under lately.