Archive for November, 2004

The past (OpenDoc) and the future (Spotlight)

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Over the last month I’ve discovered my computer’s Applications folder is missing some key items. Filling the voids however, has been challenging. Through the web development process there are many different types of information spread across multiple places in my computer that I’d really love to have all in one place. Unfortunately because all of [...]

And you still get what you pay for

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

I couple days ago I blogged about a website contract that I did not win. The site looked terrible and had numerous technical flaws.
Well, less than a week after the site went live I have been contracted to completely rebuild the site from scratch because they realized the site would not meet their needs. So [...]

Catch-all email addresses

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Rich Brooks blogged about email spoofing and recommended disabling catch-alls if you use them. I use them and here is the response I posted.
I’ve been criticized for this many times, however I am a fan of catch-all email addresses in certain instances. It can be a fantastic way to control sp@m if you have your [...]

Computer Flight Simulators

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

AOPA has an interesting article (Membership Required) about real pilots using computer based flight simulators to keep sharp and even assist flight training.
I had logged about 150 hours of flight simulator time in X-Plane before taking my first “real” flight lesson. Much like the article said, I did have occasional challenges during my flight training [...]

You really do get what you pay for

Friday, November 19th, 2004

Today I had the opportunity to view a newly opened website which I had bid on constructing but had lost the bid. I lost the bid by a wide margin and didn’t know much about the person/firm who won the bid. Of course it is easy for me to be critical about someone else’s work, [...]

Beech Aero Club reaches 250 Members

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

Sometime yesterday the Beech Aero Club reached 250 members. The website opened on July 30 so we they have acheived enormous growth in less than four months. They have also held four fly-ins as well as helped a huge number of people with airplane technical support. I, like all of the Board of Directors have [...]

Blog://Started

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

After reading a recent blog from Rich Brooks regarding the value of blogs for web developers I decided to finally start one of my own. You found it, Welcome!
I do plan on making the long trek down to Portland tomorrow for Rich’s presentation on email marketing. I have some passionate views about email marketing [...]