Posted by admin on March 1, 2010
Recent developments in my social networking efforts on behalf of my clients have sent me scrounging for timely topics on a wide variety of things. I found this marvelous resource when I was keeping Smithsonian Magazine’s Kids’ Castle (sadly now gone away) up to date. Brownielocks keeps a complete list of crazy holidays and observances [...]
Posted by admin on January 18, 2010
I sent the following bulletin to my mailing list, but I thought I’d include it here as well:
Dear Friends,
Google and Microsoft have been in the news lately over the latest cyberattack from China. This one involves an exploit found in Internet Explorer versions all of them. (full report: Microsoft Security Advisory (979352) – Vulnerability in [...]
Posted by admin on January 15, 2010
Still cleaning out my bookmarks.
Here’s a list of places to download free font sets:
Fontspace
1001 Free Fonts
Free Photo Sites:
Free Digital Photos
DreamsTime
Pixel Perfect Digital
Freerange Stock
Morgue File
Free Pixels
Stock Vault
Image Base
Stock.xchng
Free Clipart Sites:
Icon Drawer
Iconka
Iconspedia
Free Icons Web
Vista Icons
Visual Pharm
Icon Stick
Freebiesdock
Web Designer Depot
Yellow Icon
Down Archive
Clker
Free Clipart Pictures
Free Background Sites:
Pattern Cooler
NASA
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Posted by admin on January 13, 2010
This posting is mostly for me so I don’t have to keep looking these up every time I need one.
The extended ASCII codes (character code 128-255)
There are several different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table. The table below is according to ISO 8859-1, also called ISO Latin-1. Codes 129-159 contain the Microsoft® Windows Latin-1 [...]
Posted by admin on January 8, 2010
This code was a PITA to find and i have a new ulcer forming that I am going to name, “Wordpress Codex.” What I wanted was to have just my most recent news items display separately from my articles and update dynamically in the body of an otherwise static homepage. (ie. NOT as a [...]
Posted by admin on December 17, 2009
Near the end of November I set up a survey to find out what sorts of things people look forward to over the winter holidays—favorite traditions, food, etc. I had a great response and learned a lot about how other people look at this time of year. While the results are in no way reflective [...]