Category: General
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Accessibility for Writers: Software Manuals
One of the most important improvements that can be made to the accessibility of a site is a task that will often fall to writers. Adding text to describe images allows blind and visually-impaired users to access your content, but writing it is not necessarily something that comes naturally. The tips compiled here will help…
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Web Design Resources
I became a geek by accident. I was a groupie for ages and then it just kind of rubbed off on me. I am eager to collect my links before they get lost. The resources for learning to design well are out there, but hard to find and evaluate until you know the basics. This…
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Eventually I’ll stop writing about it.
But I need to get over it first. I’m still reading the news too much. This site made me feel a bit better, because I can at least be angry. http://www.fuckthesouth.com/ I also finally found what I’ve been looking for and can maybe read a little less news. What is it? A cartogram of the…
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Happy 38th Birthday EricP!
My present to him was the song as sung by Marylin Monroe.
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Paris Saint Germain Vs. l’Olympique de Marseille
Each team calls the other their meilleur ennemi, and their fans shout obsenities that are only common when you have heard them all your life. Football families and clubs reserve huge swaths of seats at the ends of the stadium and are known to be so rowdy, lighting fireworks, chanting, jumping, and swearing, that they…
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Wronged.
It should be illegal for George W. Bush to get reelected when I have pms. Mena Trott has a nice solution: http://mena.typepad.com/dollarshort/2004/11/canada_20.html
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Bed Bugs
One of our neighbors moved out rather uneventfully a few months after his wife left him and his apartment had begun to stink through the floor of cigarettes. A few times a little drunk in the elevator with strange women and poof he was gone. Hugo was convinced it was mosquitos. One doctor was convinced…
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the namesake
by jhumpa lahiri Maybe the immigrant experience is universal, maybe it doesn’t depend on what country you have left or are working to integrate into. This book was far better than Interpreter of Maladies because of the continuity, the development of the characters, and the obvious sincerity with which it was written.
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HTML Lite
Approach: For a long time I didn’t really understand the reason for CSS, XHTML, and standards in general. I didn’t get that the reason for the separation of CSS and HTML was to separate content from presentation. And even when I read that statement in Standards based design books, I didn’t understand why. What are…
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Oscar Wilde Quote
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde