Category: Blog

  • Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo

    Once again, be careful what you blog. The most innocuous thing may get you fired, just like Michael Hanscom of Seattle, WA, recently terminated by Microsoft for mentioning that MSCopy (the Microsoft in-house print shop) was located in the same building as Shipping & Receiving. Before condemning Microsoft for being an evil, paranoid ogre, you…

  • Quark 7 and 8 Announced

    Fred Ebrahimi, CEO of Quark: “ We’ve just announced QuarkXPress 7 will ship on November 1st, and XPress 8 will ship on December 20th. After careful consideration we came to this conclusion: What the hell? It’s not like we actually change the software between versions anyway. Hence our release cycle will be sped up tremendously…

  • Server Issues Resolved

    I’ve worked out and resolved the MySQL server issue that kept my blog sedantary throughout this past weekend. كازينو كروز Give me a little time and I’ll have responded to everyone’s comments and updated the Saturday Slant page to tie into the below post. In the meantime, I invite you to check out Jennifer’s really…

  • I Shout “Quark Sucks!” Loudest

    If you go to Google.com and type in “quark sucks” (with or without the quotes), my site–specifically some op/ed dialogues I started–is the top two listings. This makes me very proud. It’s almost as if my voice shouting “Quark sucks!” is the loudest–at least on Google. Google Search: quark sucks

  • SVG Finally Starting To Come Alive

    The W3C has just announced the first SVG Competition, this one to design a SVG Tiny greeting card of 30k or less. The winner receives a Nokia 3650 tri-band GSM handset. “ Announcing the first official SVG Mobile Competition. Nokia have provided a 3650 tri-band GSM handset as a prize for the best SVG Mobile…

  • Plan To Reduce Spam: Tip

    I got this e-mail from Arianna at http://blog.realitycrutch.com/ about my Plan To Reduce Spam: “ Hi I liked your spam plan, I’ve been doing what I can but didn’t think of keying addresses, great idea. I looked to see how you created a safe mailto, very cool! I suspected the NOSPAM in addresses wasn’t safe…

  • Shortcut To Change Search Bar

    Recently I received the below question from a reader. I answered the reader, but I thought I would also share the answer with anyone else who might be curious. “ nice site. I’ve borrowed your blogroll code — its great by the way. Do you know how to link to the sidebar from a button…

  • Portfolio Expanded

    Portfolio Sample I’ve updated and expanded my online Portfolio to include over a dozen new items in the areas of Web Design, Web & Flash Design, Promotional, Advertising, Magazine Layout, Magazine Makeover, and Merchandising.

  • AOL Blocks Links From LiveJournal

    Slashdot | AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal “ Last week, AOL began blocking all HTTP requests with ‘www.livejournal.com’ Referer headers. This is a common practice by image hosting sites to prevent off-site linking of their images and ‘bandwidth theft’. However, in AOL’s case, they’re blocking everything, not just images, effectively breaking all links to any…

  • Bruce Chizen for Gov of Cali

    Is it too late to nominate Bruce Chizen for California Governor? To paraphrase Jack Kennedy, “A PDF on every website, and PostScript in every printer.”