December 2008
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I recently read the book “CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions” which I highly reccommend to anyone who uses CSS extensively. In the book it lists not just what you can do, but how to do it right. One selector that I read about in the book and implemented last week was the [att$=val] attribute…
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I’ve started several business ventures in the past few years. Some of them have been complete failures, some have been marginal successes and one in particular (this one) has done very well. With this experience of starting small, one-man operations and bootstrapping them to success or failure, I have a decent amount of experience to…
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I recently bought a new computer; when I went through the options deciding what I did/didn’t want, I cut it down to the barebones. I elected not to have any software on the computer that I’d have to pay for. Below are a few terrific free alternatives to spending lots of money on software. OpenOffice.org…
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A lot of people I respect advocate working only four days a week. 32 hours. Their argument is that you waste a lot of time anyway plus, if you start the week knowing you only have four days to work, you’ll get it done. I found this true when I’ve gone on vacation and had…