Have you been reading Mark Pilgrim’s 30 days to a more accessible weblog? You should be, it’s got some really good stuff. For example, in the last two days he’s had links to Lynx viewer, which lets you take a quick look at how your site renders to someone using Lynx, and to VisCheck which will let you take a peek at how your color scheme would work for someone who has certain types of colorblindness. Good tools to keep on hand.
Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Yes, it’s an Excel function. One I knew about, kind of, but had never needed to use, until today. Luckily, for all of us who were working on this formula, I found this page using Google and it made for an easy to follow example of summing the data in cells that matched mulitple criteria….
Caught this mentioned in the Langa Letter. Grisoft, the company that has offered a “free for personal use” AVG anti-virus for years, is now offering an anti-spyware tool called ewido. Like AVG, there is a version that is free for personal use, and there’s a paid “Pro” version with a bit more functionality. Apparently this…
Here’s a good reason why I have a hard time believing most of what I hear from news organizations. It’s all about making the story more interesting than it really is and inducing panic so that people stay tuned, isn’t it? So, we’ve got newspeople spouting basically whatever comes into their heads as truth, and…
Or, Free at last, free at last, everything over there is NLMP. (No longer my problem!) Yes, it’s true. Yesterday, 6 months after leaving the job, I finally turned in my keys to the building and said sayonara to my former employer. I feel liberated, like a giant weight has been lifted. Looking back it’s…
It’s the second annual edition of the Server Room of Horrors from Friends in Tech. I was impressed with last year’s special, but having had the opportunity to record a few lines for this one and see how much hard work goes into putting all of this together, I have a whole new respect for how…
Back at work again this morning. Hoping that it won’t be as insane as yesterday. With two new people starting and needing to be introduced to the network layout, policies and procedures I knew it was going to be a busy one. What I didn’t count on was various email accounts not working for times…