I had the opportunity to do something new and different this past weekend. A friend of ours needed to have some photos taken of herself, and I offered to spend part of the afternoon shooting her. Now, since these were private photos, I can’t show you examples of what I learned, I can tell you…
Bryce Whitty has a list of 7 situations you may find yourself in as a consultant, and asks how you would handle them. There’s some interesting discussion going on in the comments. I do have one comment, regarding number 7 “A male client wants you to setup monitoring software on his wife?s computer because he…
Yesterday, both Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe, of the Technorama Podcast, and fellow Friends in Tech members, announced that they are running against one another for the office of PodPresident. If you know these guys from their podcast, then you know that this election will be way more interesting, and entertaining, than that “other one”….
Steven Vore sent me this link about what Thomas Stromberg found on a computer that was sitting out for the trash after he took it home to see if he could salvage any parts from it. Buying a computer for your bustling property management company in 1998: $500 City of Roswell Garbage Pickup Cost: $22/mo…
Thanks to Andy, and others, for the suggestion of HTTrack, While it didn’t download the whole site cleanly, being able to see what it was doing helped me realize what problem I was running into. It seems that this particular site uses a 404 in place of any page that doesn’t exist, rather than redirecting…
Today was the first time I had tried to use Acrobat’s built-in web capture to capture a copy of an entire website. It didn’t go so well. I’ve heard that on smaller sites, it works really well, giving you a PDF version of all the pages it can spider on the site, but on this…