Archive for the 'Web' Category

The Paperless Invoice

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

It’s the beginning of the month, which means it’s invoice time for me. I very rarely send out paper invoices. These days most companies are hip enough to have addresses like AccountsPayable@<company>.com. So my low-volume invoicing mechanism involves a Pages templates document, and a little manual copy and paste from my web-based hour-tracking system. One […]

Apple Strides in on a Banana

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I’ve recently installed Mint, a statistics gathering package, on my web site. It’s basically a souped up referral/hit recording package, similar to what Google is now offering for free. Why pay for Mint when I can get the Julep for free? Several reasons. First, Google is not accepting new users for the service right now. […]

Helping Myself and Others

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

The main reasons I write in this blog are for the fame and the glory. These will come some day, won’t they? Running a close third is the fact that, as I accumulate entries in this repository, the articles become part of the “Internet Reference Book,” upon which we all rely for “instant and easy […]

Stupid Style Tricks

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Something that has been for months on my list of things to “check out” are Cascading Style Sheets. Ever since I woke up one day and noticed that they were no longer that funky innovative technology that no browsers supported, I realized maybe I better get a better grasp of what-all they entailed. When one […]