Category: Web/Tech

NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has prepared guides to the archival Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs. There is a longer guide and a one-page summary. I do a weekly backup of my important files to CD, and it is nice to have this information.

Email attachments that cause problems are in the news this week, but email phishes are also a problem. The Anti-Phishing.org – Stop Phishing and Email Scams site explains what these are, and how to avoid exposing valuable personal information.

I have lost Network Access at home and won’t be updating my blog until it is restored. Update: 2003-12-04 Still no access.

ReUSEIT shows many submissions of the redesign project for “Useit.com”:http://www.useit.com, a website devoted to computer usability.

“They” won. I’m not sure how long I’ve used my old email address, maybe eight years? Certainly I started using it long before spam was more than once a week occurrence. Currently, my load of junk email is now approaching approximately two hundred a day. The only way I have been able to cope at all is with two layers of filtering.

However, I am starting to lose stuff in my filters. I check, but it can be hard to see the rare good item in all the junk in the reject folder. Since my web host provides virtually unlimited email addresses, I have set up a new address for personal correspondence, several addresses for the various lists in which I participate, and a “throwaway” address for registering at websites.

I have tried to send my new personal address to those who know my old one. I can also be contacted at the link in the side bar to the left.

A List Apart, an online magazine devoted to web design, is back with a new design and three new articles. The new design is very pleasant with subtle earthtones.

Layout-o-matic is a tool that generates CSS code for layouts with up to three columns.

Citrus Moon has free tiles, backgrounds and other graphics. Unlike most of these collections, this site permits “commerical use of these patterns”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/about.html without payment and allows use of patterns if they have been colored or resized. The site also contains “tips”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/tips.html about how to make your own tiles.

This color tool called “Color Toy” from defencemechanism.com has the easiest to use mechanism for finding coordinating colors of any tool I have seen yet. (via “Sugarfused”:http://www.sugarfused.com )

Listamatic

The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list using samples from Eric Meyer, ProjectSeven, SimpleBits and others.