Potato Chips on Demand
August 2, 2008
Yes, I know this is way off-topic, but these chips are so good, I can’t resist.
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My Financial Life is Online
April 13, 2008
Every year at tax time, I cringe with the amount of time it takes me to categorize all my expenses. Not anymore!
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Ten Years of Email
February 2, 2008
I have ten years of email. Am I a freak?
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Secret Holiday Activity
December 28, 2007
I have a little friend named Frances. She’s currently six years old. She considers herself an artist. Last year, we decided to do a secret activity to make gifts for everyone in her family. We did pottery painting. This year, it was jewelry.
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Exercise Music - Geek Style
August 13, 2007
I’ve been working out at home lately. One of the things I do just about every day is go outside and walk briskly around the neighborhood for about 20 minutes. I thought it would be a good thing to listen to some music while I walk. So I got myself an iPod Nano. The question became, how do I find songs in my music collection with the perfect walking pace for me?
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Word Reformatting Tips
June 4, 2007
Sometimes you get a problematic Word document that you need to reformat with clean HTML. It’s easier to show than tell, so I made you a little movie. There’s also a little-known (but handy) tip about making odd-shaped selections in Word, and (gasp!) working with DOS.
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CSS Color Charts
January 28, 2007
For shopping sites, sometimes it’s handy to have color swatches. Here’s a way to generate them using borders and unordered lists in CSS. You can use images too, if you want to show patterns.
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Debra’s Dynamic Gallery
January 14, 2007
One of my clients has a member-based photo gallery on their site. The administration and bandwidth issues were starting to reach the nightmare stage as their membership kept growing, and folks kept uploading. I suddenly thought, why is my client trying to be in the hosted photo-sharing business, when Flickr is the best thing out there? How can we have a member-based gallery and make Flickr do all the work? And make it really, really easy? And fun?
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