Tonight we put the final touches on the upgrade of lydiajohnsondance.org. Despite the holiday weekend, the staff was in attendance to knock out the last few changes. Lydia asked for all new Flash movies at the top of each page. I ramped up my Flash skills just enough to be …
Back at the day job, there’s been a groundswell of interest in the idea of having posts from one of our many (many, many) blogs appear in other blogs, automatically. For example, Mary would like certain posts from Dave’s blog that may be of interest to hear readers to show …
We were talking last night about Energy Star ratings, and how unreliable they are. For example, TVs that are tested and rated when their screens are dimmed so much you can’t see them. Or laptop batteries rated with performance and screen brightness turned down and no one doing anything on …
[Updated] The problem with my previous method is, from a maintenance point of view, that someone has to go in and manually (and accurately) modify the .htaccess file every time a user is added. Depending on your traffic level, that could be prohibitive. Here’s a way to have your authentication set up automatically every time you publish your blog.
Just off the top of my head, in no particular order, a few random things that are driving me crazy today about this blogging platform. Some of them you’ll need to have the program installed to see. But take my word for it, these are all part of the latest …
ZDNet’s Adrian Kinglsley-Huges recommends ditching Windows for all online financial activities, specifically banking at shopping.
When you use Movable Type for multiblogging, sometimes you’re going to find that you want to keep readers out altogether. Here’s a way to do it using Apache’s mod_env and an .htaccess file.
These new statistics shouldn’t cause the people at Firefox to get complacent. While IE is losing market share, Firefox is not getting all or even most of it.
Documentation for theme and style management is a little bit lacking. Here are a few methods and tweaks you should know, for adding and managing styles or themes, and for making them a little more user-customizable.
Sure enough, I woke up this morning to see the network connection status as “Local only.” Down to the basement, unplug the routers, unplug the cable modem, wait a few, replug the cable modem, wait for it to cycle on, plug back in the routers. I have to go through …
I like my enV3 even more. The Motorola, as I’ve complained before, gave me a good ten minutes’ talk time before the low-battery alert would come on, and a couple minutes after that it would unceremoniously shut down. Well since my last charge I’ve talked about an hour and fifteen …
I’d kind of had enough. My two-year-old Motorola KRAZR, while sleek and sexy, was driving me to distraction. The keys were close together and hard to feel, so texting was a touch-and-go (so-to-speak) matter; and the battery life was beyond bad. After five minutes on a call, beginning with a …
A week or so ago I wrote about some nice work that was being done on my house. I just finished remaking the web site of the outfit who did it for me, Star Painting.
This is circulating around, you may have seen it already.
