I maintain several computers for a small Sign & Screen printing company, who use Windows 98SE for their main vinyl plotting computers. The reason (I'll try to keep this short) is because the store owner has a few years of age on her and she really didn't like the newer versions of the plotting software they use, so they've stuck with a version that really only works in Windows 98. (I've tried to talk them into upgrading and it hasn't happened yet...)

Have you ever wanted to insert an image as a background for a Microsoft Word document? Usually you would use MS Publisher for something like this but not everyone has free loads of cash to purchase a fancy flier program like Publisher.

I spent about an hour trying to figure out a way to effectively embed a picture as the background for a word 2007 document and decided to blog it in hopes to save someone else some time.

I'm not a Linux guy... I find Linux to be rather frustrating. It is a programmers operating system and I am not a programmer. That aside, I am writing myself a note on how to "fix" and update the nVidia driver on my laptop, and get it to work with Ubuntu Gusty 7.10 & Compiz-Fusion.

(If you are looking for Beryl, like I was for an hour and a half today... Beryl has merged with the extra plugins sector of Compiz and become Compiz-Fusion)

I ran across a beautiful Drupal module this evening called Default Filter which allows the Drupal administrator to set input filter defaults, based on various roles within the system.

I have run into issues where I have wanted to assign the Full HTML input format for all administrative users, and Filtered HTML for all anonymous or low level authenticated users. Up to this point, I just set the default filter to Filtered HTML and manually changed it when I created a new page.

Default Filter takes care of this problem!

Drupal is a wonderful CMS platform for building an encompassing and professional website presence. I have however, run into an issue where Drupal does not like to show embeded video's through Youtube or Google Video when viewing a page in Internet Explorer. If you try to visit the page with the embeded YouTube or Google Video, Internet Explorer throws up an error message to the effect of:

Internet Explorer Cannot open the internet site http://domain.com/page

Operation Aborted.

IE6 is known to have a host of CSS limitations, forcing web designers to come up with creative ways around the new CSS standards and Microsoft's poor integration of the new standards and their own proprietary way of doing things.

Early in my web design days, I found out about the wonderful psuedo :hover and the ability to make images transparent when hovered over, or originally transparent then full opacity when hovered over.

I recently reloaded Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to Windows XP SP2, so I could join it to a domain. This was before I realized that XP Media Center 2005 could be joined to a domain! Grr!! Much time wasted and a somewhat unhappy customer seeing as people don't like change... I wish I had run across this article sooner!

I give all credit to the author (whomever that may be...) but wanted to keep track of it for my own personal record keeping.

I had an issue with thickbox where it would show the image behind a flash video in FireFox. IE7 worked great. I ran across Sheriar Designs Blog posting a fix specifically for DHTML menus over a flash video. I figured I would give it a try and much to my surprise, the suggestion worked! I give ALL CREDIT to the author of the blog, Mani (Pronounced like Bonnie, not Mani like Danny)

Yuwie.com

To make a long story short, a new site has emerged called Yuwie.com. It is a site, geared much like MySpace and FaceBook, but it has a bit of a twist. The site pays it's members for the people they refer into it, and their referrals referrals, on down the line. That's right. You can MAKE MONEY ONLINE, Just by Knowing People. Questions? Check out: Look Out MySpace!