About a month ago, I checked out a book from the library called Why Johnny Can’t Brand : Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Big Idea. The name is a take off the 1950’s title Why Johnny Can’t Read, and got my attention enough for me to give it a chance. I’m glad I did. […]
A web app called Grazr was just publicly launched, providing an easy way to display structured outlines stored in OPML. One common use for OPML is to organize and share RSS reading lists. So, here’s mine from Bloglines. **Grazr seems to have been discontinued a long time ago.**
Back in February, I talked about a couple of personal finance programs I had tried: Mvelopes Personal (completely web-based) and Moneydance (a cross-platform desktop app that’s built in Java). Because there have been some big changes to Mvelopes and our own family situation since February, I thought a rereview was in order. First up: My […]
Here’s a short video clip I took earlier in the week and uploaded to Vimeo last night. The entire video was about six minutes, but this gives you a pretty good idea.
In the last week, a National Federation for the Blind (NFB) lawsuit against the the Target Corporation has been given permission to proceed, with potentially huge consequences for all businesses with an online presence if Target loses. Last Thursday, a federal district court judge ruled that the inaccessible Target.com website violates the Americans with Disabilities […]
Let’s face it: The barriers to becoming a programmer are extremely low. Whether this is a good or bad thing is debatable, but an almost infinite number of internet resources means that anyone with the time and desire can learn pretty much any programming language. This, my friends, is a problem. You see, a lot […]
I started off my 28th birtday this morning by jumping on our newly acquired treadmill for the first time. Why? Well, after losing 30 pounds in about four months early last year, a newborn baby, a new job, and a new home have taken their toll. I’m now back up close to my starting weight, […]
Right now I’m in the middle of designing a website for one of the new businesses. It’s work that I enjoy very much, giving me the chance to stretch the creative side of my brain and apply my knowledge of branding, marketing, accessibility, usability, and most recently, search engine optimization. During the initial design round, […]
Recently, I discovered that Yahoo offers a way of submitting a simple sitemap to their Site Explorer service to let them know about all of the pages on your site. This is very similar in concept to Google’s sitemap protocol that was released last summer, but is just a simple text listing of URLs instead […]