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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EE Photo Contest
May 18, 2007
I have some clients who reward their users for participating in various activities, and uploading photos is one of them. My first idea was to get their members to get Flickr accounts and to use Expression Engine, our content management system, to display them. After I did all the work to show them how it would function, they decided not to go for it, (see Debra’s Dynamic Gallery) and proposed having a monthly photo contest instead.
It took some thinkin’, but it was a hit since the day we launched, and gets more submissions every single month.
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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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