Monday, December 30th, 2002
so many links
My Weblinks Directory is at 390 so far.
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TTW WYSIWYG Editor Widgets
TTW WYSIWYG Editor Widgets a list of “what you see is what you get” editors that work through your browser. open-source and commercial.
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Clueful Consulting: Free CMS Systems.
Content Management Systems (CMS) Directory: Browse: Products:Free systems a list of free content systems, many open-source.
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Sunday, December 29th, 2002
Gibson Research Corporation
Home of Gibson Research Corporation
Hosts free utilities for testing the security of Windows computers and advice on fixing leaks. Shields UP! looks to see how easily you can be hacked.
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Saturday, December 28th, 2002
Christmas After-all
Uncle Bill’s kidneys have started working again and he opened his eyes and seemed to know his wife.
Christmas went much better than I expected. Mom left me alone about it so the pressure was off. It helped that they somehow managed not to fight the whole time. This is a family that prefers arguing to opening presents. I’m not sure if it was the effect of Bill getting better or just a coincidence.
And would you believe that I’m sick again? Starting the 26th, I can’t even breathe sitting up without drugs. Luckily, I already have a doctor’s appointment friday. I’m not sure what he can do since my underlying problem is stress. I’ll problably need to take some time off work after I move just for R&R.
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Protect Fair Use
Protect Fair Use - Protecting Consumers Fair Use Rights in the Digital Age
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Saturday, December 21st, 2002
re: Author schmauthor
Dorothea’s rant about getting an editor to edit documents reminds me of other places where I’ve heard of the same problem, people in general seem to have forgotten that most jobs require specialized knowledge. Anyone can do them, but only after they know what the’re doing. So we see organizational webpages put up by anyone who had Frontpage, regardless of code bloat (which makes it take longer to download) and accessability problems that make it impossible to navigate. And let’s not forget my own institution where they wanted to open another library that would be run by a clerk. The librarians could teach him or her everything he/she needed to know in a couple of weeks, right?
For those who don’t understand what’s wrong with that, let me point out that I’m now in my third year of hell to get a MASTERS degree on the subject. There is a lot more to running a library than checking out books. Someone has to buy the books, which means knowing which books to buy. Someone has to select and install the computer system to keep track of the books and where they are. And someone has to put the books into the system correctly, so they can be found by topic as well as bibliographic information. And no, not everything is on the Internet. (Actually, if the publishers have their way, nothing will be on the Internet, but that’s another rant.)
The point is, it seems to be agrowing phenominum for people to forget that education and skills are involved for even a job at McDonalds (Could you work one of those cash registers?). Anyone might be able to do the job but they can’t do it well without learning the skills first.
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A Very Unmerry Christmas
My Uncle Bill is in the hospital again. His organs have failed and this is definitely the end. My aunt doesn’t want anyone coming to the hospital, she seems to want to be alone.
I can understand her not wanting to deal with anyone else’s grief right now but I do think it’s a little unfair to their daughter to not be allowed to see him one more time, even if he’s not there anymore.
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Friday, December 20th, 2002
Personality Tests or what I did at work today
There was a slight thread in one of the blogs I read about Myers-Briggs Type Indicators that I passed over until today when I read
“And once extroverted people understand how excessive social interaction drains introverts of their vital life force, they respond with a mixture of sympathy and pity. ‘Poor you,’ I see them thinking, ‘to be missing out on all the fun.’”
You mean it’s not just me? This is something I’ve never been able to explain to anyone but Tanya, and she’s almost borderline intro/extroverted. My mom and her family just do not get it (guess what most of them are) and my boss really doesn’t understand (we’re like at the exact opposite ends of the spectrum- each an extreme example of our type).
I went and retook the Keirsey Test as well as the Jung Typology Test at Humanmetrics.com. Strangely enough, I came out as an ISTJ(Inspector) as opposed to an INTJ(Mastermind) like I did last time. The description didn’t fit me very well and I went back to the results and they were so close (1%) that I realized I was actually a borderline case, IXTJ. Mixing the descriptions of both profiles fits me pretty well.
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Thursday, December 19th, 2002
Tutorials
I’ve created a Tutorials section where I can put the instructions I’ve written for my friends. I’ve already got three up: “XHTML for Newbies” is a very beginning overview of html for people who want to create a webpage and have no idea where to start, “CSS for Newbies” takes up where “XHTML…” left off but it can be read on it’s own for those who already know html, and there’s a “PHP Link Identifier Script” I wrote because I couldn’t find one that did what I wanted it to do.
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Simple Webpage Creation
Introduction
The basis of webpages is html (hypertext markup language). Html is a markup language, which means that it identifies certain elements in a document. It works the same as MARC records. MARC records can be imported into any catalog capable of interpreting the coding, and html documents can be displayed by any browser that knows the language.
Html has evolved over the years, as web users needed more from it. The current standard for html is Xhtml (Extensible HyperText Markup Language). Xhtml is a child of html and XML (Extensible Markup Language ) that is acting as a bridge between the two. It uses the same elements as html 4.0 (the last revision) but with stricter rules required by XML. Since Xhtml (strict) is the current standard, that’s the one I’ll be using for this lecture.
Part of the stricter standards required in Xhtml is the “separation of style from content.” This is a recurring refrain because it is the most important point. When the World Wide Web became so popular so quickly, pieces of code (tags- both standard and proprietary to certain browsers) were added to html to allow designers to make their webpages more attractive and complex. (See In the Beginning…)But markup languages aren’t supposed to have anything to do with how things look, they are used to give structure. It’s like painting each individual board before you build your house. It looks nice when you’re finished but redecorating is a pain and paint gets into places it’s not supposed to be, messing the structure up. Most of the tags that were added are now being withdrawn from the standard and future browsers won’t support them anymore.
This is where Cascading Style Sheets come in. The information can be marked up in Xhtml, and then the design can be applied using style sheets. The result is html that is much easier to read and a website that is far easier to change. It is also easier, I’m told, for a Xhtml/CSS site to comply with the federal regulations for accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Monday, December 9th, 2002
ColorMatch 5K
ie only create a color and get 5 others that match
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colin powell powerpoint
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Mozilla Bookmarklets
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html
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Karl - Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API
Karl - Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API
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