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Thursday, April 11, 2002 |
Is this the Google box? What is it?
Did I actually accomplish this? Is it an example or is it useful? I followed the instructions, but now I'm not certain what I've done!
10:05:36 PM 
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9:57:38 PM
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The Google Thing
Jenny made it work. She said follow Dave's instructions. So, I'm off to try something I know nothing about!
But, I'm always finding something else (simple) that stumps me. Look at the way she was able to make the text and graphic mesh together in this post. My graphics always take up several entire lines of text and the next sentence is waaaaaay down there! What's the secret in this that I'm missing? Why isn't any of this stuff obvious to me?
9:13:53 PM
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Remember in the movie A Few Good Men...
how the little shrimpy Marine gets trapped on the witness stand. He begins to look around uncomfortably and says, "Hal, what does that mean, Hal? What does that mean?"
I'm looking around for Russ or Dane or somebody to tell me what the Google thing really means to those of us who can't spell HTML, yet!
7:12:33 PM
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Accounting - someone gets it!
Too many corporate reports come off sounding like, "We would have made our numbers except that..." OR "Excluding the CEO's compensation, we were profitable." Isn't it great to see someone step up to this whole pro forma nonsense?
Yahoo Gives Pro Forma the Boot. The bellwether Internet firm says it will stop reporting earnings in pro forma, a controversial accounting method popular in the technology sector. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
The other laughable condition is the one in which a company has a new non-recurring item each quarter. Pretty soon you get the feeling that non-recurring items occur with regularity at many of these places.
1:29:46 PM
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Search feature - It's a BIG Need!
To set up shortcuts, I want to go back and find stuff I've already posted. I hope we can uncover one of these soon!
If anyone knows of a free or low-cost way to add search within a Radio weblog, let me know. Atomz was suggested but the freebie won't do to cover the intended content reach of this site, though it might work for a while. The paid version, at $15K...[Russ Lipton Documents Radio]
Russ, has Dave given us the answer? Great wish list, too!
1:25:00 PM
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Right after I learn HTML, templates, RSSDistiller, a search feature, etc... I'll learn:
Instant outlining. Here's the O'Reilly Network story: Jon Udell: Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification. [Jon's Radio]
1:21:40 PM
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Don't you wish we could "designate" our tax dollars the way we designate for a church or charity?
Buy a New Car or Build a Village?. DevelopmentSpace focuses entirely on projects that require thousands of dollars, not millions, like an Australian campaign to combat gasoline-fume sniffing or an eye hospital expansion in Nepal. By Brian Kennedy. [New York Times: Technology]
Let's see, I'd like for the first $5000 to go to... The Times article above makes me think of how many things we really could get done if people could specify. Clearly, the smaller not-for-profit/charitable organizations seem to accomplish mammoth amounts of good work with very little. Those to whom much has been given seem to always wind up with a public outcry on their hands.
I'm mixing charitable giving and work with thoughts about what a country should be doing with tax dollars. With taxation so disproportionately distributed in this country, what departments would remain?
1:19:32 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Steve Pilgrim.
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