I bought a new Dell back last September, and though I generally love the damn thing, I gotta say that the Dell Support Software is a joke. Rant warning . . .
First of all, the damn Support thing has been giving me “alerts” about the “security settings” I’m running. It says my Internet Explorer […]

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Zi pointed me at a great article which lays out a toolkit for building accessible forms.
There are also some other tutorials and helper pages on the web to help in achieving form markup that will allow people using assistive technology to fill out your forms. I dug in my bookmarks and came up with […]

HostingZoom sucks. My MAIN business email address has now been down for almost 24 hours. I’m shopping hosts right now to move this site off hostingzoom.com hosting, so there may be some disruptions and burps over the next 24 hours or so, depending on when I do the migration.
HostingZoom supposedly “fixed” it last night. Yeah. […]

One of the mailing lists I’m on just linked to the browser stats at the W3 school site. I just plain don’t understand why so many people still use that insecure and broken piece of manure called Internet Explorer, in whatever flavor it comes in. IE7 is very slightly less broken than IE6.
Between clients having […]

Okay, so I just wasted an hour playing with this Stripe Generator online graphics tool. I guess there will be a free theme coming out of one of my results, once I get some time to throw it together.
It’s kinda cool since I’ve tried doing diagonal stripes before and never gotten them quite right. This […]

So I just got a call from my friend, Jesse, who, though he knows more than most of my clients, can sometimes be thrown for a loop. He’s having problems with his main site’s webhost and has decided to migrate that site onto Downtown Host, where he’s got reseller space on my recommendation. This was […]

Wordpress has had a security update to fix some issues. This is in both the 2.0.x branch and the 2.2.X branch. For once it was pretty painless, since it just involved using the trac differential to upload the changed files, which in the case of the 2.2.X branch are here. It stated on the dev […]

Being a small businessperson, an independent contractor and self employed, I find myself wearing so many different hats. I’m web designer, web coder, SEO weenie, mother to my gaggle of weblings via being their “computer and web expert” (okay, so it’s all relative!), bookkeeper, chief cook and bottlewasher, writer and blogger, editor, marketing department, […]

So this week in the DelVal we’ve had some pretty intense and destructive weather. Trees down. Power out. Phone lines down. And I depend on dsl for work.
Speculation is that they were mini twisters, since there was a definite path of destruction that crossed the tops of three hills and left the valleys in between […]

Well, there will be a lot of NJ State Trooper kids happy tonight. They’ll have their own private 4th of July fireworks shows at home from what daddy confiscated on I-78 coming across the bridge from PA. Three people have told me about the bottleneck this caused. Apparently the Troopers put a plainclothes person in […]

In general I love almost all my clients. They’re a great and creative bunch and I absolutely love to watch them succeed with the custom websites I’ve designed for them.
However there is one group of people who, for the most part, I hope I never hear from again. They call themselves “Internet Marketers.”
These are the […]

Okay, so Briggsy, my feline housemate, is majorly pissed at me. He gives me dirty looks every time I take my new two week old violin out of its case. He ends up swatting the bow if it comes anywhere near his perch, though I must be getting better, since he no longer hides under […]

I, for one, am spending at least a few minutes sending out (yet more) emails telling our elected representatives in Congress that keeping us in Iraq to ensure the oil companies and war profiteers have a healthy balance sheet is not worth the price. How about you?
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