(hat-tip: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-talk-sidebar-widget-10/ – http://alax.info/blog . ) I’m actually not using his code, as I found that Google has a simple badge deal available from them that I could just slap in the sidebar. However, looking for this was a needle-in-the-haystack proposition, and looking at his blog (and chatting with him) confirmed that this would work. What’s […]
Google talk chatback badge Read Post »
… and puts the previous whining in perspective. R.I.P. Olive. http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com/
This made my eyes leak a little Read Post »
Finally gave up on the old template and trying to fix the fact that the right columns always broke and went under the content. Now using Silver Light. So far I like the code structure and didn’t find it too hard to bang in my changes to the right column.
I read Merlin Mann’s post at 43 Folders which asks: “What does a company get out of its employees spending half their day using an email program?” And then I read Crystal King’s post at her blog Cynosure which asks “Does Technology Connect or Disconnect People from Each Other?” This, naturally, got me thinking about
Old-school private eyes, interconnectedness, and you Read Post »
I just received a spam message that read: Tom Cruise crashes helicoptor over Pacific ocean; body not yet found. (followed by a link) (and no, as of this writing he hasn’t done so, at least not according to cnn.com, who presumably would have posted a story about same…) Back in my practical-joke-pulling days (i.e. the
Yet another nasty new variant on spam Read Post »
The Artesian City website is mostly banged in as to menu structure. I’m sure I’ll find things I want to tweak when I get started on content cleanup, and the whole purpose of moving to Joomla is to add gizmos, but not bad for 8-11 hours of work.
Not bad for 8-11 hours work Read Post »
.. can yield some pretty silly results. Not sure what I’m going to do about this.
iframes and mutually referring websites Read Post »
There’s a point in any web project where it seems you have to, like Cortes*, burn your boats. This point came sooner than expected for me. I couldn’t get the zip archive to extract, so I had to upload the tar.gz joomla file to the server and expand it. At that point, while my existing
Last night I downloaded Joomla 1.5.3. (zip archive) This morning I downloaded it again because the extraction wizard keeps failing. I’m hoping the copy I downloaded last night was just corrupted, and the fresh copy will work. It’s taken me a long time to learn this, but “a watched pot never boils” also applies to these
Website update – the first step is always the hardest Read Post »
I’m planning to move my company’s website from a static design (it was designed with php to try to make it easier to update, but it didn’t totally work out that way) to Joomla 1.5.x. Since we have the long weekend ahead of us, I’m going to tackle it tomorrow.
Company website remodel Read Post »