Guidelines for Linking – A good read on the usability of links on the web. It is making me rethink how I have links on my site and why usability is more important than presentation.
Golden Gardens
Yesterday Anthony, Jules, Jamie, and I went to Golden Gardens Park to screw around and enjoy the day since our plans for Mt. Rainier fell though. It was a really nice day out and it was great to be on the beach. I took plenty of pictures and I’ll share a few of them with you to give you an idea on what we did on our day at the beach. Continue reading “Golden Gardens”
Skype Internet Phone
Skype – If you haven’t heard of this by now you will soon find out. It is a free computer to computer telephony program. It is like a phone call for your PC to another PC. The best part is that it is free. Oh, yeah, their 2 cents per minute rate for long distance to many nations isn’t that shabby either.
Polling and Cell Phones
Yesterday at work I heard a conversation that blew my mind. I am going to paraphrase the conversation between two self-proclaimed Democrats (I heard them say it themselves–I am not guessing).
You know why the Republicans have a lead in the polls right? It is because they do this phone polling to people with land lines. They don’t even poll those with cell phones. So, really they are getting a small slice of the population. And you know what? Guess who can afford the land lines? The rich Republicans. That means that the poor, among many other sub groups are not counted in the polls. No wonder Bush is now in the lead in the polls.
Hold up. What? Did I hear you say normalization? Continue reading “Polling and Cell Phones”
Lazy eye helped Rembrandt’s art
Lazy eye helped Rembrandt’s art – Yes! I knew there was a reason I had a lazy eye. I can be the greatest artist ever!
mozilla.org Markup Reference
mozilla.org Markup Reference – A good little reference on how to do a bunch of simple little things with semantic markup and CSS.
Use A9, Get A Discount
Today I was making a purchase on amazon.com and I noticed at the bottom of my purchase a new item that I did not notice before.
I thought that was pretty cool. So, if you make at least one search on A9.com while logged into your amazon.com account you will see an estimated discount applied to your next order (explained). Pretty cool if you ask me.
Oh, yeah, to be nerdy they made the discount π/2% (1.57%).