Catastrophe comes in many different modes in life, and sometimes tragic events are caused by random chance. It doesn't make them any less painful to face, but they all lead to the feelings of anger, sadness, and the why-me syndrome. Last week, driving through my hometown of Ridgefield, Connecticut, as I do every weekday for — Continue reading »
Illinois' tollway
📆 June 1, 2005
Last weekend I was in the Chicago area with the family attending a wedding. We took advantage of the occasion and arrived a couple of days early to visit the city and do some sight seeing. I'd been to Chicago before and hadn't thought much of it. Perhaps being there on business had something to — Continue reading »
Illinois' tollway
Last weekend I was in the Chicago area with the family attending a wedding. We took advantage of the occasion and arrived a couple of days early to visit the city and do some sight seeing. I'd been to Chicago before and hadn't thought much of it. Perhaps being there on business had something to — Continue reading »
robots.txt
📆 May 23, 2005
If you operate a public web site, there is little doubt that you'd like an occasional visit from search engine minions, known as robots. Robot are little agents that search engines dispatch to your site to scan your page contents and sent them back to the mother ship for cataloguing and finally including in search — Continue reading »
Of French chocolate and wine
📆 May 16, 2005
When it comes to chocolate, bitter is better, at least for me. I am partial to Swiss, but the French also make mean dark chocolates. Shopping at Trader Joe's today, my wife couldn't find my favorite Swiss dark, so instead she got me the French variety. You know, Chocolat Noir. As it is my habit — Continue reading »
The case against human cloning
📆 May 11, 2005
Even the most humble among us carry a little vanity picturing themselves as visionaries. So here's my little slice of personal prediction. I make the claim lightly with no presupposition of having delusional premonitions. It is just something I believe in. The case for human cloning has been a hot subject for a while now. — Continue reading »
JavaScript void function and html hyperlinks
📆 May 5, 2005
One of the techniques often used in html are hyperlinks that actually do not take the user to another page, but instead run a client-side javascript, dhtml.The most common way of programming hyperlinks in html is done by using the A (anchor) tag. The following code snippet illustrates the ease of creating a hyperlink: <a — Continue reading »
MSNBC.com's missing expandable menu
📆 May 4, 2005
As a frequent reader of MSNBC's Web site, I started noticing this past weekend that their left-side navigation menu items no longer expanded. As of this writing, the menu has yet to regain its dynamic trait. The expanding menu has been part of MSNBC's navigational feature for many years. As the user hovered over the — Continue reading »
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