A good quote about class

“One typically exhibits class by doing small, gracious things beyond the minimum that is expected. Class, in another words, is a plus. It’s a very good thing to have, but its absence is not really a negative”
That’s probably one of the best descriptions of class that I’ve read. It’s from a post on PowerLine Blog, [...]

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Awesome smackdown by Neil Gaiman on needy fans

Hat tip to Ryan Sohmer over at Looking For Group for posting a link to this on his site.
I don’t regularly follow Neil Gaiman’s journal, but I might start after reading his post about Entitlement Issues. A reader wrote in to complain about George R.R. Martin’s blog & Twitter posts not containing any information about [...]

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Need to start using Firebug more

I downloaded and installed Firebug for Firefox the other day (I primarily use Flock as my browser, but Firefox is nice too) but hadn’t used Firebug much. After running across Kristarella’s tutorial on Firebug, I am going to start trying to use it more. Her tutorial was very informative and I think I’ll learn a [...]

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Now THAT’S what I call a social networking site!!!

I just recently found the site 97Bottles, which allows users to enter profiles and reviews of their favorite beers. If you have friends that also subscribe to the site, you can send them recommendations for different beers, but I am not that social so I don’t have any friends on the the site.
97Bottles is a [...]

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Web Standards

After a long hiatus from doing anything creative or constructive  on the web — besides infrequent comments on various blogs — I am going to start playing around with various web pages and code and layout again. And trying to write more stuff in general.
I have been following a number of sites that talk about [...]

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Some notes about design

I am writing this post for two reasons. One reason is it will be an entry in the Design Group Writing Project for Charity, run by Jacob Cass who writes Just Creative Design.  But the other reason is to provide encouragement and maybe a couple of ideas for people like me, who have stumbled onto [...]

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Post on Captain Capitalism about the economics of courtship (and my ridiculously long reply)

I have been reading Captain Capitalism’s blog regularly for about a month now, and would highly recommend it. He present good solid arguments with lots of facts and figures, both of which I find highly lacking in most news articles.
He has recently been posting some very interesting thoughts on courtship in the modern world. His [...]

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10 Tips to get the most from Happy Hour — From Unthirsty.com

A site I found today is Unthirsty.com (oddly enough, I found it while reading a Webmonkey post on forum avatars). It allows users to enter happy hour information by area (no information on Great Falls, Montana, so I guess it’s time for me to do some research — sweet!!).
Clicking on some random links, I found [...]

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A pretty cool holiday feature, and a shirt

The WordPress.Com blog had a note about putting snow on your WordPress blog. It’s a pretty cool feature that’s only available until Jan. 2nd, 2008. Neat!!!
And on a side note, they also mentioned WordPress hoodies available through their store. At $32, they’re cheaper than most hoodies, and actually look pretty good.

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Found a really neat blog!!!

strange maps, located at http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/.
Just what it say, strange maps. A lot of historical maps, old maps, maps comparing unexpected things, demographic maps, geographic maps — just a lot of really awesome, REALLY strange maps!!!

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Found a good blog about RoHS!

I did some searching on Google for “blog” and “RoHS”, and quite honestly, didn’t find a whole lot. There were a lot of hits, many of which did got to blogs, but it seemed like most of the blog entries just mentioned that RoHS existed or said that it was great (if it was [...]

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