This is Lindsay Donaghe's blog. If you like technology, programming, web and graphic design, meta languages (XML flavors), photography, informatics, and other geeky stuff then you'll probably find something here.
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Fleeting Thoughts
The new standard starter project for any web-based code library is creating a Flickr gallery widget. It’s Hello World 2.0.
I attended a presentation on “Inbox Zero” by Merlin Mann and he made a great observation about all those email chain jokes and Snopes items you get from non-tech savvy people:
Forwarding emails is like blogging for old people.
MousePrint analyzes advertising and its fine print. An interesting tour of the logic of advertising and how it can deceive people. Great for teaching people critical thinking.
A list of free things you can do to boost traffic to your website or blog. Many of them are obvious if you’ve done it for a while, but it’s a good refresher and checklist.
Seth Godin has an intresting perspective on things that seems to match mine in a lot of ways. I like his critcal thinking and ways to cut through the BS of marketing and advertising. Interesting blog.
How to fix the annoying bug in IE where a background applied to a FIELDSET displays incorrectly in the fieldset’s LEGEND and “overlaps” the border. I had to modify it a bit to get it to work in my situation. Also note that the bullets in the code snippe
A power cord with swappable “tips” so that you can use one cord to charge up all your devices. Too bad they don’t seem to have a tip for my Fuji Finepix F810 .
A model airplane that’s outfitted with a camera so that the person controlling it can see from it’s perspective and control it through a set of VR goggles. Very cool idea… and you know the military has got to already have these things….
A nice tutorial on how to create non-standard forms and mask input controls so that they’re not just inset boxes. Interesting idea, but some noted usability and cross-browser compatibility issues.
Site with activites and techniques for teaching children Aikido. A good listing under Curriculum of activites other than games that help them understand techniques.
A site that is supposed to let people learn about things in small chunks quickly. Users can create their own courses or just use those provided by others. Supposed to be short lessons that are quickly absorbed and narrowly focused. Interesting idea.
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