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Archive for September 2005

Disaster Recovery Plans and Other Articles
September 14th, 2005 | Tags: Business

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 Point: How Good Companies [...]
Wizard Academy Graduate
September 13th, 2005 | Tags: Business

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 [...]
Hotel Accommodations
September 12th, 2005 | Tags: Business

Well, I was going to write about my trip to Austin, but that will have to wait as Murphy’s Law struck again. I unexpectedly brought illness back with me from the trip. I did manage to write a little about it in the Bionic Ear Blog prior to getting sick. I also covered the wi-fi experiences [...]
How It Works: The Computer
September 9th, 2005 |

Howdy, from Austin where I complete my wizard training. Here’s a little light weekend reading… How It Works…The Computer. OK, maybe not so light, but a fascinating tour of the computer in 1971 and in 1979 (revised edition). Details on the trip comes next week. Enjoy your weekend.
Amazon Feedback and Marketplace Usability
September 7th, 2005 |

I was reviewing feedback left for a Marketplace seller. Here are a couple of snippets: “Great book for new moms to be! “Excellent book!” “Great book…” “Great quality…” “Great product…” This person is a book seller. He doesn’t publish books or sell e-books. So if a person buys a book from him and the book stinks, does that mean the seller [...]
When Simple Words Work Better
September 6th, 2005 |

It’s stuff like this that steer me away from fancy words whether or not I know what they mean. Say what? The title of the paper in question, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy.” The article says, “But the four-page send-up, laced with confounding graphs, was accepted by an [...]
404 Work Around
September 2nd, 2005 | Tags: Links

First time I’ve seen a 404 requesting details such as the link you were looking for, what content was expected, and where the link came from. The drawback is the visitor may not take the time to fill it out, but I did and I am sure others do. I believe this is a win-win [...]
Professional CSS
September 1st, 2005 |

In the last few years, books on CSS have crowded the book shelves as designers clamored to better understand how to use the mighty tool that blew away tables. This, however, isn’t just another book on CSS its syntax, and positioning. Professional CSS uses real Web sites to show how the designer did the work [...]