The Jehovah’s Witnesses near here (rural Southern Oregon) are great people — at least the ones we know are. They support each other and come around about once a month to proselytize. In this area they are well organized, well respected, and stubborn. They travel in a group — at least 3 or 4 adults […]
Archive | April, 2006
Audio Generator / Ask Database
“Why re-invent the wheel since this works…”
Score one for Oregon
Every once in a while, this deeply politically divided state of Oregon comes up with a winner. This article on the UPI wire service about a Federal case here in Oregon caught my attention as one such win. U.S. District Judge Garr King is quoted as telling the US attorneys: “To the extent it can […]
Glow-worms
walking along a ranch road lit only by starlight…
Abstract Art Defined
“Don’t stand under the architecture….”
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Normally I don’t put a lot of credence in Jakob Nielsen’s studies and observations about the web. Most of them strike me as academic or utterly impractical. Today’s article, F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) however, has some useful info. People looking at web pages, according to this article, scan them in […]
Alternative Tax
Cats – not just a Broadway Play
Tax Day
IRS is considering letting tax preparers sell tax return data to marketers…
“Look don’t think.”
I have been seeking to implement this policy: “Look, don’t think”. It generally takes longer to look than it does to think. It requires (for me) more effort to go look something up, to check it, to find the reference I need. Thinking (among other things) is an effort to confront something without actually looking […]
Fast Food – by Long Distance
“Now we will be thanking you very much…”