My coworker, JB, is brilliant in many ways. He is skilled in writing coldfusion, SQL, and several other languages (just not English). But on days like this, when he forgets to fill his car with gas, I’m reminded that IT skills don’t always help you out in the real world.
Yearly Archives: 2006
Threshold Teasers
My brother Cameron Pearce and his parterners at Threshold Productions have been busy putting the finishing touches on their upcoming movie “The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell.” Today, he released three teasers, and I have to say his work keeps getting better. If three teasers aren’t enough for you, head over to their …
Wiki Spam Without Style
Wiki spam is when users or bots append unwanted links and URLs into established or abandoned wiki-based websites. Though most wiki software like MediaWiki automatically adds the attribute/value rel=”nofollow” to a tags, spammers still flood your content in an effort to peddle there wares. Most wiki spam uses CSS to hide their content from the …
10 Ways to use your USB thumb drive
Boot DOS This handy tool from HP will format your USB thumb drive and copy DOS files over to it. Boot Linux You can also boot many flavors of Linux. Two of the easier ones to try would be Puppy and SPBLinux. Boot XP You can even set up your USB thumb drive to boot …
Upcoming Redesign
Lambda Chi Alpha’s IT team is getting ready to flesh out some of the wireframing, information architecture, layout, and content for lambdachi.org. There are so many tools and best practices I have referenced in the past, I wanted to post a few here for easy reference: Design Documentation ALA Project Management and Workflow Web Redesign …