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An exercise in critical thinking and writing by Joey Day

Month: October, 2003

A List Apart Returns

If you’re in to web design, but have never read any articles over at A List Apart, I highly recommend that you scoot your butt over there and start readin’.
The site has been under construction for over a month and I’ve really missed reading fresh content there. Now that their new layout is up, they [...]

Keep Your Mobile Phone Number

Starting on November 24, 2003, the FCC will require cellular phone companies to allow their users to switch carriers and keep their phone number. So, for instance, if you aren’t happy with T-Mobile you can switch to AT&T or Sprint without the inconvenience of losing your phone number.

Peach and Blue Twenty

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I actually saw one of these over the weekend. The new $20 bill is multi-colored. Released on October 9, 2003, the new bills are still mostly trademark green, but now include blue and peach colored areas. As they continue to release the other bills, they will each have their own unique color [...]

Going Through Withdrawals

ContentWatch (the company I work for) just hired a new business manager who has decided to whip the place into shape in terms of productivity. My manager sent out the following email a few days ago:
bq.. Team,
Some of you may be aware that people and responsibilities have been changing lately. Prior to the formal [...]

Iraqis Get New Dinars

The University has started a pilot program where they’re giving away copies of the Salt Lake Tribune, the Deseret News, and USA Today. If they feel students will use the papers, they’ll add five bucks to student fees next year and make the free (well, sortof free) papers permanent.
Anyway, I grabbed a copy of the [...]

Democratic Hypocrites (and GeoURL)

I’ve been toying around with this cool little thing called GeoURL. I added a few meta tags to my site that tell the rest of the world my latitude and longitude (check my source if you’re curious). I then pinged GeoURL to have them index my site in their database. I’ve added a little link [...]

Mozilla in the Clear

Bad news: Microsoft has released the details of future changes to Internet Explorer. They’re being forced to change it because of a recent lawsuit involving a small company called Eolas. Eolas is owned and operated by one man, Michael Doyle, who patented the concept of plug-ins back in 1994. Microsoft will probably put this change [...]

Trackback Pings

You may have noticed over the past week that I added the trackback ping URI to some of the newest entries. It wouldn’t have really done you much good to ping those though, because I didn’t have anything working yet. Now I’ve actually taken the time to implement trackback pings. They should be fully operational [...]

New Honda Commercial

For some reason, I’ve really been tuning into commercials lately…
Have you seen the new Honda commercial? This guy is walking along the beach staring at all the ladies in bikinis (the women are kindof blurred out so the guy is the main focus). As he’s walking along he’s not paying attention to where he’s going, [...]

Lighten Up, Teach!

I have the most anal-retentive professor in my Survey of Jazz class. We had an exam today and he had so many stupid rules. Rule number one was no talking, which is fine except that he talked through the entire exam just explaining (and repeating) all of his asinine rules.