Writing About My Life, Work, Creativity, and the Daily Effort to Learn, Grow, and Live Better.
Turns out it isn't all that difficult to convert your photographs into stencils. Most children do this during their formative years. Now every parent can relive those fridge-covered days! But the first thing you have to ask yourself: Which photograph do I use? None of my current photo's seem worthy of putting on my chest!... Continue Reading →
Earlier this afternoon I decided to test out the finer-attributes of my little camera: The compact Canon Digital IXUS v.2 It appears that with the right adjustments, I am quite the marksmen. Check out these great photographs of antique wooden balls. Wondering where the balls came from? My wife’s late grandfather enjoyed collecting interesting items... Continue Reading →
I’m not going to steal Marc Hedlund’s thunder by simply copying and pasting his text to here: This post is the greatest piece of advice any entrepreneur will read, and every web-geek should already have read. This is basically a summary of a lot of great proverbs collected over his working lifetime, then gave his... Continue Reading →
1. Philip Greenspun When I found this article by Philip Greenspun talking about 'making money from your Website' earlier tonight, my head span and I really had to laugh at myself. Let me tell you why: Back then I realised quickly that my pages were getting overloaded with data, taking far too long to load,... Continue Reading →
Some things on the internet are extremely difficult to believe if they are real or not. OK, ok, 99% of the internet is unbelievable. Even the stuff that says "Yeah, this is real" invariably isn’t. This is yet another of those occasions - but I am prepared to eat humble pie if this proves to... Continue Reading →
Microsoft and AMD have sent free Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks loaded with MS Vista™ to a group of high-profile bloggers. From Scott Beale's post, a portion of the letter sent to each recipient. Take note of highlighted text: "Full disclosure - while I hope you will blog about your experience with the... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Snook has written a great post that I have commented as a "succint statement of validation" regarding the over/use of DIV’s in a web site. Like many coders who layout their plans on paper first, I carefully decide what the DIVs will be entitled for the remainder of their lifetime online. Some have standard... Continue Reading →
According to the new CSS-validator over at w3.org, my CSS on my site validate. Some might say "So what?" What they and you don’t realise: I do not use any special software to write my HTML (eg: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) nor my CSS (eg: Topstyle, Stylemaster, MacRabbit, etc). I taught myself from reading and learning... Continue Reading →
It's that time of the year again, where we all go to lunch with work colleagues to celebrate surviving another year in the same work environment together - where we might have to endure sitting on a table loaded with big-wigs, fat-cats, and managers. The astute employee uses this location to their advantage, wielding a... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 