Morning Notes

John Hiler says: This is the dark side of blogging: the emphasis it puts on our egos. If I write something and someone else blogs it on their site… well all of a sudden, I feel validated and great about myself. Same thing goes with press mentions: you read a few articles that mention you…

Now that’s how you ruin a perfectly good day!

I was going to point you in the direction of the Online Blog’s write-up of Steve Job’s MacExpo keynote, or tell you about the HP employees getting suspended for passing around porn on their PC’s (how dumb do you have to be?), all with appropriate pithy comments, but that was before I got a message…

Upon further review

I know why we don’t have a Zip code input mask. We do have some people from Canada and Europe on our mailing list, and their zip code, obviously, would not work with an input mask. That makes sense. On the other hand, why someone there wants to keep up with state level legislation in…

Good news

First off, the ICQ account is back under my control, thanks to the good people at ICQ for getting that taken care of. That saves me from having to sign up for a new one and making everyone who knows the current one switch. Secondly, I downloaded the new version of Amphetadesk and while it…

Good morning!

So the wife was checking out Blogskins the other day and came up with a new 3-column layout for her blog. Her search inspired me to find a nice calm, comfortable skin for the Child Abuse Survivor Blog. So I got that going for me. The challenge now is to find a decent 3-column layout…

More bad news

Here’s some even more bad news, from people who obviously are just clueless, yet somehow wound up in positions of power: Driver’s license as De Facto National ID?. Here’s a quote (and a fine example of just how clueless some people are): “These are state motor vehicle departments that will have these databases. This is…