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Texas Valentine Snow 2004
February 22nd, 2004 | Tags: photos

On Valentine’s Day 2004, we woke up to a white wonderland. Big flakes came down, kids every where built real snow people (don’t want to be accused of prejudiced against snow women).
RSS with Style
February 21st, 2004 |

I just started noticing that the feeds are showing up in NewsGator with style included. Fetchlinks, a plug-in is what did it. I’m glad I had the chance to experience this so I could see for myself how well having RSS style works. Every feed looking the same has been one of the complaints about RSS. [...]
How CSS Works
February 21st, 2004 | Tags: web design

Network World Fusion has a good article on how cascading sheets function. Get insight into CSS Level 1, Level 2, and 2.1. And while we’re on the topic of doing cool stuff with CSS, W3C has posted a way to do a drop shadow using divs.
Spywareinfo Hacked
February 20th, 2004 |

I talked with Mike Healan, the editor of SpywareInfo, a resource providing the latest spyware threats, forums, and links to related articles and information so that your system can stay free and clean. Mike has a dedicated server in Atlanta which hosts spywareinfo.com/net/org, merijn.org, tomcoyote.org, dogreader.com and mikehealan.com. On Feb 6, there were a few sporadic [...]
PC Annoyances
February 20th, 2004 |

I believe if everyone had one of those “beat up your computer” dolls for taking out your computer problem aggravation on the doll instead of your computer, then they’d all look like they were hit by a truck. After calming down and finding your center, PC Annoyances is the nice tech support technician that s [...]
Yahoo Spies on Yoohoo
February 20th, 2004 | Tags: Tech

From Freeware Arena Messageboard: Yahoo is using “Web Beacons” to track Yahoo users around the Internet to see what you’re doing and where you are going, similar to cookies. They also track out outside the Yahoo arena. Check out the updated privacy statement. [ Via William A Ford ]
Awkward Computing
February 20th, 2004 | Tags: Tech

“Adam@home” is a comic strip that has joined Microsoft’s new campaign to help aging computer users user accessible technology. Its cartoonist, Brian Basset, understands what it’s like as he indicated when he reached 40 he got “drawing glasses” otherwise known as reading glasses. He has drawn a series of cartoons providing tips on how to use [...]
The Reader Trust Awards
February 19th, 2004 | Tags: Tech

The polls are open for the SC Awards, which focus on information security in various topics such as access control, anti-spam, anti-virus (AV), business continuity, and much more. Readers have the opportunity to vote in each product category and the top five receiving the most votes will move on to the next level. I took a [...]
Stress-free Forms
February 18th, 2004 | Tags: web design

One of the things I struggled with while using Web sites to see if they were worth a nomination was forms. Some refuse to work with the tabs. Others required data to be entered just so. For instance, phone numbers: you enter 555-555-5555, but no, it wants (555)555-5555 not (555) 555-5555 or (555) 5555555 or [...]
CSS Beyond the Retrofit
February 17th, 2004 | Tags: web design

Molly Holzschlag addresses the integration of structure and presentation using CSS in this article, a first in a monthly series that she will write for InformIT. Get an overview of the six types of style sheets for managing a document’s layout. Yes, six. Most of us know there are inline, linked, and embedded style sheets, [...]