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The 2008 season of A Christmas Tale, a musical drama, opens...

Thu, 11/20/2008 - 5:07pm


The 2008 season of A Christmas Tale, a musical drama, opens December 4th with six performances through Sunday, December 7th. This free event includes giveaways, horse-drawn carriage rides, and more. Child care (6mo - K) is available. Visit cornerstonehighland.com for more details.

Never send an engineer to change a church sign

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:03pm
(2:43:44 PM) Teri: FYI - Never send an engineer to change a church sign.
(2:43:51 PM) Teri: He been here two hour.
(2:44:19 PM) Teri: He go now.
(2:45:25 PM) Micah: had to get those letters straight within a millimeter's tolerance, did he?
(2:45:35 PM) Teri: cha yeah
(2:45:47 PM) Teri: had to measure it all out first
(2:45:56 PM) Teri: with drawings and everything
(2:46:01 PM) Teri: please
(2:46:02 PM) Micah: oh geez
(2:46:13 PM) Teri: just take the letters out and change the sign
(2:46:40 PM) Teri: thing is..he's a computer engineer
(2:46:58 PM) Teri: software
(2:47:05 PM) Teri: like you
(2:47:30 PM) Micah: old school. waterfall method, I'm sure

Web Publishing: UR DOIN IN WRONG

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 12:07pm
Web Publishing: UR DOIN IN WRONG:

Ok, let’s see…

  • Decent open source HTML editor… check.
  • Write magazine article about using editor to create web pages… check.
  • Build Drupal website to post online versions of articles… check.
  • Post article as PDF attachment to Drupal node… WUT?
It gets worse. From the article text: The first thing I want to do is set up a couple of tables, one inside the other, to hold my pictures and text. Think of tables as little boxes that you can put stuff into.

There is a fancier way of laying out a Web site, called Cascading Style Sheets, and Nvu supports it, but for simple sites it seems like overkill. Tables have been used for years for basic Web page layout tasks, and they are quick and easy to set up— exactly what I need. That’s just scary.