mindgraffiti

Just out of curiosity, I reviewed some of the HTML training on Lynda.com. I believed I had decent HTML chops and wanted to see how they approached learning HTML, from a beginner’s standpoint. I noticed they used “not recommended practices” in the beginning videos (no doctype declaration, font tag soup, etc.), but if you watch [...]

I know that shopping online is a calculated risk. So is banking online, for that matter. I don’t believe I do an excessive amount of shopping and banking online, nor am I careless with my personal information. So why is it that approximately every six months I receive a notice telling me that merchant ABC [...]

One of the forwarded e-mails I received today had a sharp observation that I, for once, agreed with:
Is it just me?
As you watch the flooding in the Midwest, have you noticed that there
are no farmers running around with stolen plasma TVs or holding stolen
liquor over their heads.
There’s no looting or yelling ‘Where’s Bush?’, ‘Where’s FEMA?,  [...]

I am taking a short break, so there won’t be any posts during the second and third week of June. With the end of Sale Season I am taking advantage of the short lull and using some time off for my personal agenda. I’m getting married June 13 and will be taking a honeymoon the [...]

When I need a break from solving a problem on a project, I tend to read something completely unrelated to the subject I was working on. I fell down a rabbit hole and just finished reading an excellent article at Change Your Tree: I Support The Fair Tax (And Why You Should Too).
It’s already known [...]