Geek Soap Box

Today, in a not-so-random conversation with a person to be named later, I referred to one of my professional strengths as believing in the democratic nature of information.  Basically, what I meant is that, in the past, a few individuals — big media, corporate public relations teams, and the like — controlled nearly all of [...]

Going through my Google Reader articles, I came across a recent article on AriWriter that raises the same issue that has been percolating in my mind recently: just when is it best practice for a Web site to force a link to open in an external (new) window? The “Web standard” these days — based [...]

I was working on a blast HTML e-mail for work, and good old Dreamweaver decided to be extra helpful and tell me the following: It’s an error box that says “No error occurred,” in case your resolution is too small to read the text. Good to know!  Thanks Dreamweaver!

Hey, St. John’s University…your Web site is an abomination, an atrocity that should be judged guilty of war crimes.  Why do I get this curt admonishment nearly 50% of the time that I try to log in and check my school e-mail account? (It merely says “System is too busy, please try again later”)