Category Archives: Web

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An online Christmas shopping-must.

Tripped over this great tool today and thought it was a brilliant example of a great web-based application. TheFinalCost.com does just what the title says. Have you ever been buying something from an online store and wondered how much you were going to get dinged for the customs and duties by the customs brokerage? Try [...]

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Distant relatives.

Occasionally, one of the masses that read the missives on this page leave comments in unrelated articles about something they see in the list of links I provide. The links that appear there are little bits and pieces that I pick up from trolling the feedreaders for things that interest me. I rationalize that I’m [...]

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Glorious Discoveries

Well, I’m back from directing Bedtime Stories at Upper Canada Playhouse and I’m slowly digging out of my backlog. But I just wanted to post a great online radio station that I’ve found. It’s a Jazz and Heritage radio station in New Orleans called WWOZ and it is absolutely amazing. I’ve been listening for two [...]

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ALA’s Web Design Survey

Not that many other web professionals read this blog, but in the event that one does trip over it… Nobody really knows about the dynamics of the web as a professional experience – thus spake the incomparable Zeldman who is, for my secular friends, kind of the grand-daddy of the whole web standards movement. (I [...]

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Why Lighters Use A Flint

Flintstones smoking. var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.jessecollins.com/wp-content/themes/andthensome/images/flinstones.swf”, “mymovie”, “320″, “310″, “7″, “#ffffff”); so.write(“flashcontent”);

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