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Category Archives: Technology

Observations on the lack of art in technology today

Writing, the anti-nebulizer

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 5:18 pm

Been processing some thoughts about CSS files and workstyles, and I think they’re about to bubble up and out. They’re still a bit inchoate (nice word, that; I learned it from a comic book back in my adolescence, so take that you literature snobs!) but I generally need to type them out in order to […]

Hacking into Joomla 1.5

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:20 am

Managed to clear most of the table cruft out of 1.5, only the content component to go. That one will be non-trivial but possible, nonetheless. I’ve been wrestling with a view other ideas along the way. The first is a question born out of frustration: Why do I have to do this? The Joomla developers […]

Frustration

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 6:01 pm

My bank froze my ATM card today. Their scanners picked up unusual activity on it, so they froze it. I’ve been with this bank for decades, and have been quite happy with their service and with the people there. But decades of good will was nearly wiped out by a single ill-considered decision. This was […]

If Drupal’s so easy….

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 6:43 pm

I’ve got some questions for you. Let me first set the stage: I have new idea for a node type. I’m going to create one that will embed javascript-replayable chess games in a block on a page. Data entry will require uploading two files generated from another application. Both of those files will be slightly […]

Good-bye, FranklinCovey

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 12:30 pm

I’ve long been a fan of Steven Covey’s work. I’ll admit to being disappointed when he sold out to Franklin, now FranklinCovey, as the “First Things First” system he’d been detailing was a better approach. Still I understood the economics of it. I’ve been a user of Franklin (now FranklinCovey) planners for almost a decade, […]

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