Archive for the ‘Tech tips’ Category

Failed experiment – now removing Facebook links feed

Several developments in this short-lived trial.
The most serious is that the feed produces hotlinked photos. If read in a feedreader, that’d be fine, but even with my minuscule readership, this is not acceptable practice for a blogger. I could use CSS to keep the images from displaying (and have done so with the links … read more »

Free or very low cost mailing list service from Bravenet

Bravenet has teamed up with Constant Contact to offer a pretty good deal on an e-mailing list service.
I signed up with Bravenet back in 2003, and for a while used some of their counters and other website tools, but drifted away to other services. However, I never bothered to unsubscribe from their newsletter, tho … read more »

Peace Arena Online Guide: News reports from the 2008 Democratic convention

I’ve been scouting out the best online news resources for following the Democratic Party convention in Denver, other than the well-known, corporate news operations (that I generally avoid anyway), which I think we can all find on our own. Below is what I’ve found so far, and I’ll add to the list as I come … read more »

Free advice to amateur web site “designers”

Don’t use frames. Ever.
Because if I can visit your site and see your obvious mis-use of what is a bad choice to begin with, I am getting out of there so fast, my visit won’t even register on your hit counter. And there are millions who will do the same, believe me.
If I could … read more »

Open Office turns seven

My birthday wish: the continued humbling of MS.
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads … read more »