Article — How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships (from Wall Street Journal online)

I agree with a lot of what Ms. Bernstein has to say in her article. And yes, I do realize I was guilty of many of these same faults a few months ago. Making more time to actually talk or write to friends is one of the reasons why I’m not on Facebook nearly as [...]

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Article — Burnout (from A List Apart)

This article is over 3 months old and comes from A List Apart, an on-line magazine for web professionals. But I went back and re-read it yesterday and was again struck by how well it matched my own experiences with burnout, both in college and in my career.
So I’m posting it here in case others [...]

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Facebook — IRC in fancier clothes

By IRC, I am referring to Internet Relay Chat. If you follow that link to Wikipedia, you’ll see that IRC has had some important milestones during the years of its existence, such as being used to report on the 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union.
But IRC has always been notorious as being a [...]

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A Rant: MySpace & Facebook — Brilliant as ever

There’s sarcasm in that title, if you didn’t notice. MySpace and Facebook have decided to make life difficult, for reasons that I fail to comprehend.
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MySpace first, since I’ve used that for longer — I’ve had a MySpace page for a couple years now. Don’t do a lot with it, honestly. But some of my friends [...]

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Wow!!! After a lot of tweaking and fiddling, finally got a gravatar set up.

Found another neat new web thing, the globally recognized avatars. I think it’s part of WordPress (either that, or it uses my WordPress OpenID), and it seems to work pretty well.
It took a couple tries to find a good picture and get it uploaded and cropped, but it’s finally all set.
Sites: Gravatar – http://www.gravatar.com

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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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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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Humor, and also a personal update

The Six Phases of Work

Phase 1.

You are listening to jazz — Your first day at work is great. Your coworkers are wonderful, your cubicle is cute, and your boss is the best!

Phase 2:

You are listening to pop music — After a while you are so busy that you are not sure if you’re coming or [...]

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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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C|NET’s interview with Martin Illsey, Accenture Technology Labs’ director of research

c|net (or is it “C|NET”??) has posted a really interesting interview with Martin Illsey, who is the director of research for Accenture Technology Labs, which is Accenture’s R&D branch.
(Article by Tom Espiner, special to CNET News.com, Published: October 30, 2007, 1:28 PM PDT, site accessed 10/30/07.)
I’m not going to into a whole lot of detail [...]

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Hello world!

I am a new Blogger escapee. Whee! My blog here is cgoodsthings at WordPress.com. While there are a number of posts below, they have all been imported from my old Blogger account.

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XHTML and frames

I am trying to figure out how to do two things:

I want to be able to create a web page with frames. Specifically, it will have a small column on the right with links to a bunch of other pages, and when I click on those links, the large column on the left will [...]

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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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Still playing around with Flock

I wrote a while back that I had downloaded a web browser named “Flock” to try.
After using it for about a month, I have to say . . . I like it!!! I use it now more than either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Although it’s based on the Firefox browser (I think) it seems [...]

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More discussion about browsers

(Note: this is posted from an e-mail, so no xhtml encoding yet.)
Looking at Flickr, I saw that they are recommending a new browser (or one that’s new to me, anyway . . .) call Flock. I looked up some reviews on it, and it said that it’s based on the Mozilla/Firefox engine (which I’m not [...]

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