Article — Youth unemployment is bad in Europe too, so it’s not just us; U.K. Telegraph

“youth unemployment at 39pc in Spain, 31pc in Lithuania, 28pc in Latvia, 26pc in Ireland and Slovakia, 25pc in Italy and Hungary, 24pc in France.” — Well, at least the U.S. isn’t alone in our 26% youth unemployment rate. But the same comments I made in my previous post apply to Europe too. A lack [...]

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Article — Youth unemployment hits 25.9% in U.S. in September, Wall Street Journal

“The September teen unemployment rate hit 25.9%” — There always needs to be bottom-rung entry-level jobs (and to be fair, people who aren’t too proud to do those jobs, a concept some teens and 20-somethings don’t always get). I’m not a fan of the push for 100% college-attendance rates for teens, since college graduates now [...]

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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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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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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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A big thanks to all the military veterans out there!!

I didn’t go to the local Veterans’ Day memorial service in Great Falls (and I still feel kind of guilty about that), but I did want to put up a post saying thanks to all our military veterans.
There are always a number of daily cartoons that will send out a big thank you to the [...]

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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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Interesting website, not sure if the organization does that much . . . .

http://www.nascocorridor.com/
“Tri-National Advocacy for Efficient, Secure, and Environmentally Conscious Trade & Transportation”
(Probably vastly over-simplified) Summary: A group which recognizes that trade between Canada, the U.S.A., and Mexico, and between all three countries and the rest of the world, is crucial to the economy of all three countries and is steadily growing in volume. Which is a [...]

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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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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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Wow, that’s a nice map!!

I’ve recently been shown where the state of Montana’s website has a lookup utility that allows you to see the ownership, tax value, etc. of different parcels of land. It’s a pretty neat website they put together, and quite interesting to browse through.
On a (sort of) related note, the Environmental Working Group’s website has [...]

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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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