Saturday, August 24, 2002

Al's new hovel sweet hovel furniture for the PC corner is now scheduled for delivery Fri Aug 30, which means everything will get disconnected for at least a day.  The furniture guy is also a PC guru, who I connected with through what once upon a time might have been called the old guy network, but it was actually a couple of sweet ladies who told me about him. For my new e-friends who are unfamiliar with my hovel sweet hovel, I owe much of the arrangement to ideas suggested by one of those ladies, Patricia Thurman, who is one of those people gifted with things totally outside my world of literature and the Internet. I have a one bedroom apartment in which the living room has been renamed Al's library.  Down the middle, back to back are 4 sets of sturdy book cases (actually 8 sets), each with 5 shelves and more stuff on very top, with halogen lamps reflecting off the white ceiling. 9:35:16 PM

Friday's Topics were: Copyright; Integrity; e-Organization. 9:26:56 PM

Remember Aug 21 scandal map link?  Well in linking to Larry's other adjacent posts, it seems evident to me that he originally got this from Mark Poyser, and incidentally, Mark's site is also well worth exploring to see other great cartoons, with some guidance on how to print this stuff.  When it was originally copied, the copyright credit should also have been copied, or more clearly stated, a scenario which may need to be better spelled out in my e-Etiquette Guidelines.  In addition to the great cartoons on Mark's other pages, don't forget to check out  Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow's Blog, which I found out about thanks to an article by Steve Outing.  You know how a picture is worth a thousand words?  Well there are people who are gifted in communicating using the pictures rather than the 1 k words, and I want to find and rejoice in more such examples of how software can be used to better fulfill the promise of GUI, which Xerox invented and Apple Mac popularized and now is almost a PC standard.  Click on any door or window of Pam's house, then when you see what she has done, start mouse exploring the whole page for other links.  Be sure to return from time to time, because the picture changes with the time of day and seasons of year. I have a Radio Wish Dream of how computer software documentation could use Pam's model.  You see a picture of a Radio website populated with all the goodies.  Move mouse over individual ingredients and there are links that work differently based on right or left mouse click, that connect you to right terminology for this feature, documentation on conceptually how it might be used, and how to implement it on your site. 8:40:38 PM

Stories added to Al's weblog, off the home page, include: Blind of NH Raw stuff about e-Accessibility and plain old Accessibility. Tons of links for folks interested in helping resolve Accessibility problems. Blogs worth revisiting Some day I will have links down the side of my web page like a lot of other Bloggers do. I need to learn how to adjust a lot of other things first. Etiquette On-Line I need to split this into smaller portions, more digestible, and easier to edit. Eventually I hope to work it into a competent essay. This material is appropriate to people who may be new to Internet publishing. Radio Doc Sources Tutorials for Radio, and nuance clarifications. A road map to Radio documentation destinations. My latest major addition & I expect I will be adding more here. I think there may be a need for this kind of topic using the dws.Radio.FAQ model, to grow a directory of all shareable Radio documentation that anyone knows about. Radio url number system A road map to Radio urls for the newbie that I am. When I get versatile in Navigation Links I might not need this any more. Understand Radio Categories Grok overall concepts, then step by step implement them. Lots of links to other people documentation. I think this documentation model worked out quite well. Understand Radio News Aggregation Grok overall concepts, then links to other people documentation for the actual implementation. I plan to do more later like this Understand Other Topics. I plan to repost a directory like this one, from time to time, as my collection gets significant updates. 9:25:31 AM

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