Month: June 2005

CSS: A Designer's Guide. Whether you're a CSS adept who needs help remembering the 342 approved hacks, or a traditional print (or Dreamweaver) designer for whom CSS layout is scary and confusing, Charles Wyke-Smith's designer's guide to CSS has you covered. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

PC World: Microsoft Builds Its Own Peer-to-Peer App. Researchers at Microsoft's labs in Cambridge, England, are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs, and software applications to end users over the Internet. [Tomalak's Realm]

O'Malley intensifies action on closings. Sixteen months after he first announced plans to close a large number of parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston, Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley is suddenly a man in a hurry. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

PayPal gets into the merchant account business. PayPal effectively enters the merchant account business with Website Payments Pro. Now sites can use PayPal to process credit card transactions without having to send folks to PayPal. This is what a lot of people have been waiting for. Look out merchant account companies.  [Signal vs. Noise]

New GTD/Covey Diagrams for D*I*Y Planners. Users of the D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition will note that there are two new diagrams included that were not part of the original D*I*Y Planner kit. I promised I'd make them available for the classic and A5 versions of the kits, and here they are for your downloading… Continue reading New GTD/Covey Diagrams for D*I*Y Planners

Implementing a Personal Information Architecture. A project I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year is implementing a personal information architecture. This has included creating a better-organized professional archive, but has gone well beyond that to include all the Stuff I deal with on a daily basis. I am using a very specific… Continue reading Implementing a Personal Information Architecture

15,000 page views per day 26 steps to 15k a Day offers 26 tips and promises the following: Do those 26 things, and I guarantee you that in one years time you will call your site a success. It will be drawing between 500 and 2000 referrals a day from search engines. If you build… Continue reading 15,000 page views per day

Where should WSUS be installed?. From the newsgroup comes the question “Where should WSUS, the patch tool be installed?” And it's perfectally fine and supported “on” the SBS 2003 server. While it “can” be on a member server, it can't be on the desktop like my Shavlik HfnetchPro is. [By the way … I've lost… Continue reading Where should WSUS be installed?

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