Top Five Health Care Reform Lies — and How to Fight Back
The health care fight has turned ugly, fast. So the gang at MoveOn.org put this handy dandy list together (with sources) rebutting the key lies and misinformation circulating about the proposed plan. See below… Lie #1: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandma! The truth: These accusations—of “death panels” and forced euthanasia—are, of course, flatly untrue. […]
CD Removed from Optical Drive!
As previously mention here, we had a library CD stuck in our kids’ 20″ iMac (Intel). You can see the previous post to get up to speed if interested, but the bottom line is that is has been removed. It took four suction cups, a TORX 8 and TORX 6 driver, along with various other […]
CD Stuck in Slot-Loading 20″ iMac (Intel)
A month or so ago we checked out some CDs from the library and popped them into the kids’ slot-loading iMac at home. The first CD didn’t eject. It has some sort of metal security strips affixed to the top, and is covered with a thin layer of clear plastic to keep the metal strips down. […]
Joomla Template Conditionals Round-Up
HR’s Industrial Strength Portal has a great round-up of settings/conditions you can check inside Joomla 1.5 templates in order to dynamically adjust your layout. Outstanding! =)
Joomla 1.5 Module Overrides
Out of the box, Joomla 1.5 is a powerhouse of functionality. But as with any stock system, there are a few things that may need to be tweeked in order to get the result you want or expect. Take Joomla menu controls for instance. They’re fine and functional, and 90% of the time no additional […]
Joomla 1.5 and WordPress 2.7 integration?
Well, I must confess that this WordPress plugin for Joomla would rock if it works as described. Comments on the page are hit and miss, so looks like I’ll have to try it out for myself to get a better idea. Groan. =)
Twitter is a Cocktail Party
Great article about Twitter from Snapps’ Rob Novak, a high-profile Lotus consultant/developer and good friend to my colleague Carol Dobies. Over at his Lotus Rock Star blog, he makes the case for Twitter, and likens it to a cocktail party. Money quote: Just something to consider if you’re squarely in the “why would I care” […]
Great GREP tutorial/summary over at Ars
Ars Technica is running a great primer on GREP by Ryan Paul. Covers basic usage and then introduces the user to regular expressions. Check it out here.
Suggested Reading
Don’t Make Me Think is suggested reading for darn near everyone in the field of web design and deployment. Susana Bruhn got me thinking about this book again recently when she was asking for good user interface source material and I recommended it. Along these lines, she also passed along 8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces, a […]
PDF Linking Reminders
Q) Can you deep link inside a PDF? A) Yes, but only by specifying PDF page numbers. Can’t link to Bookmarks. Link would look like this: http://www.domain.com/test/test.pdf#page=3 Q) Can you specify a link in a PDF to open it’s target in a new window? A) No, not for URL links. They will open in the […]
