Sep 302005
 

Saw Serenity with the kids. Happy now. Will there be another one?

 

Woo-hoo! Solved one of the items below. I have a parent page (Current Season), with three children. I created a custom template for Current Season using the information provided in this support thread, and I now have a beautiful page which lists all the concerts, rather than just links to each concert’s own page.

 

As always, way behind the rest of the world. I got frustrated maintaining bookmarks on multiple computers, and trying to keep track of my blogroll. del.icio.us to the rescue. It also prodded me to finally incorporate my static pages into WordPress. I had been resisting because I really didn’t want to update the pages. A [...]

 

On a different note, I’ve redone the Cantabile Singers website using WordPress. It was originally hand-coded php. Now it’s all WordPress static pages. Features that would really be nice: Some way to reference sibling or adjacent pages The ability to mark a page as Draft. It turns out that as far as the database is [...]

Sep 242005
 

This is cryptic to protect the guilty (not that the guilty in question would ever read this). Sometimes you try to contribute to an organization, and it’s like nobody even notices. I told my daughter I felt like I was standing at the door knocking, and the people on the other side don’t hear it. [...]

 

The other day I park at work, whip the wheelchair out of the car, pop a wheel on, pop the other wheel on—wait, the wheel won’t go on. The axle goes in a little ways, then just stops. And it won’t come out again, either. I shift over against the steering wheel to get some [...]

Sep 212005
 

For those of you who didn’t notice this earth-shaking event, Opera is now free. Even though my kids are now using Firefox, I am still stubbornly stuck to Opera as my favorite. So go try it.

Sep 212005
 

Via Jill, a list of ways to shortcut automatic phone menu systems to find a human. Paste it next to the phone (oh wait – the phone knows how to walk away). I find myself longing for phones that are tied to walls by wires, and a drive in gas station – imagine, you could [...]

Sep 112005
 

I’ve decided to post these so that I have something to look at when feeling depressed about body image.

Sep 032005
 

The September New Mobility has an excellent article on ADA suits (Small Claims, Big Victory). Unfortunately the text isn’t available online, but the opening paragraph explains what so many people do not understand: Most people are aware that the Americans with Disabilities Act gives people with disabilities some rights, but that’s about where the general [...]

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