Thanks, I'll give that a try....
eta: Ooh, that was easy!
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tommyrot - May 11, 2009 9:56:05 am PDT #9978 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Toddson - May 11, 2009 12:29:09 pm PDT #9979 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Like so many things, it's easy when you know how.
Dana - May 11, 2009 4:56:51 pm PDT #9980 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm possibly looking for a docking station to use with my laptop, since one of our desktops have died. Toshiba apparently doesn't make one, which seems odd to me. I want something that will connect to an external monitor, not just function as a USB hub.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Toddson - May 12, 2009 7:39:26 am PDT #9981 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The forces of stupidity have triumphed.
I had a meeting to discuss our web site and the 20-something who's had all kinds of wonderful ideas (like making some information only available if you're willing to wait for 30 photos to download and prefers to have multiple layers of organization - requiring more and more clicks to find some information - and putting lots and lots of high-res images without a single ALT tag) prevailed. sigh.
When I asked about making the site accessible to people using a hand-held or who didn't have a broadband connection, I was told "these guys travel with laptops more powerful than any of our desktops" so it wasn't necessary.
Oh ... and they want our organization - a trade association, basically - on Twitter.
Theodosia - May 12, 2009 7:46:41 am PDT #9982 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Gah! The stupid, it burns!
If it's any consolation, my teachers in Digital Design would all disapprove of their approach.
Web developers and designers have lovely big screens to work on, and that can lead to thinking that is the way that all pages will be viewed. I've seen the same mode of thinking affect application developers -- a coworker I just couldn't get it across that most of our users were going to see these screens on a dinky laptop screen and that he should never plan on their windows being more than 800px across!
tommyrot - May 12, 2009 11:17:51 am PDT #9983 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Qimo is a desktop operating system designed for kids. Based on the open source Ubuntu Linux desktop, Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for children aged 3 and up. Qimo's interface has been designed to be intuitive and easy to use, providing large icons for all installed games, so that even the youngest users have no trouble selecting the activity they want.
Theodosia - May 12, 2009 3:10:49 pm PDT #9984 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Does anybody have the Cascade Script font? I don't have $29 to buy it for about six small headlines on a website. I promise to burn it after using....
Ginger - May 12, 2009 5:24:55 pm PDT #9985 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have Freehand 471 [link]
Theodosia - May 13, 2009 1:43:46 am PDT #9986 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Ooooh! That's damn close, isn't it?
If it accidentally happened to fall into an email you sent to me, I wouldn't complain....
Ginger - May 13, 2009 3:53:05 am PDT #9987 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Move along. Nothing to see here.