For Dummies Template
As requested, here is the "For Dummies" table template code.
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SURGERY for Dummies |
Here is the code to copy and paste (or type) into your Web page or Blog.
Fill in your own title. It will look like this.
| SURGERY for Dummies |
See the FAQ page for even easier copy-and-paste code, or copy the code from here.
It's not too late to Party! Look down one post.
Party at Wealth Bondage!
Nobody is home at Wealth Bondage and the comments look bare. Bored? Party at Wealth Bondage!
Visit Wealth Bondage and tell them how much you love Elvis, or ask about the price of bananas, or the sound of one hand clapping. We'll be checking in. The comment count to start was 0. Let's raise that.
Shh, don't tell them we sent you.
tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com was the first to sign in at the party!
Elvis weighed in.
Punkclown
BostonBlueEyes Colin
GrlinaBox
Plato-Shrimp is the life of the commenting subculture party posting a sneak. Shh.
Susan brought her guitar and her humor. Let's jam!
Slake describes a brass monkey.
The Drunken Blogger left a mark.
bmoeasy is over there looking for balls.
Cindy joined the party.
brykmantra stopped in.
LA arrived tastefully tardy.
next...
Mel's Tip of the Day: Punch an evangelist, they have to forgive you.
Tack-O-Rama Clip Art
Ilana, who finds and displays awesome graphics at Sugar-n-Spicy, reminds us to visit Tack-O-Rama where the clip art is 100% free.
We copied this image and gave it a transparent background so that the glow filter could be applied.
Add
style="filter:glow(color=maroon)"
to the IMG tag. It will look like this.
Copy and paste this in your Blog or Web page.
Or, copy and paste from here.
It will look like this.
The glow filter can be applied to transparent images or text. The Color Chart has more named colors.
INDIANAPOLISUnited StatesGRAND PRIX
F1 Sunday
The race will be getting underway in less than five minutes. Michael Schumacher or Juan Pablo Montoya?
Live Timings
Update: Schumacher scores dominant win at Indy!
Grouping Images
Have you ever tried to put a group of images together? Some tools like Adobe will automatically gallery your images. But using HTML gives you more control over how your images are displayed.
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Hey, where's the cool part?
Click on any part of the image to open a full view of the picture. There now. You know you want it.
Back to the yard, with the rake instead of the camera.
Grouping Images:Step-by-step Instructions
Three Boxes
DIV
SPAN
Border Black Border #929085 Border #B21005<DIVstyle="width:100px;border:2px solid black; background:#929085;">Border Black</DIV><SPANstyle="width:100px;border:2px solid black; background:#929085;">Border Black</SPAN>
Here's the copy-and-paste code (with spaces removed) for the DIV box.
It will look like this.
Hey, thanks Brendyn for the coordinated colors. The hex color #929085 looks like the color of money. It's better than any of the named colors.
The best we can do with named colors is darkkhaki and darkred darkkhaki. Color suggestions anyone?
If
Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming
The Largest Network West of the Mississippi
In the Trenches
It's Thursday and I'm waiting for the new switch that will allow connecting two CPUs to one monitor. The total number of CPUs on the desk will be four or five. One with a gig of memory for Visual Age, Visual Studio, and other software. Another CPU will hold more development software and one CPU will be the email PC. One is a transition PC so there will be a grand total of five.
The power CPU will connect to the dual flat screen monitors. Will four CPUs allow me to work faster? Yes. How much faster? Twice as fast. I work on one 21" screen and two 18" flat screens at the same time, multi-tasking on two CPUs.
It's necessary. Separating the software will allow robust software to load and run independently. At any one point there might be a Passport screen to the mainframe up on one screen while a FoxPro window is multilayered on another and PHP code is windowed behind that. So, from left to right it's REXX, FoxPro, and PHP up right now along with this blogging window and email shooting out to the programmers that didn't change the mainframe jobs to match some new software.
so you want my job, eh?
The light on the phone is blinking, but that piece of equipment is the only one I'm willing to give up. It is lunch time.
so you want my job, eh?
So what goes on in the IT trenches? We just came in from break where we discussed the ODBC drivers for Remedy and the 700 tables that are included in the software. Apparently the driver doesn't allow joins of two tables so it will be necessary to connect directly...ah, you don't want to know.
so you want my job, eh?
Programming isn't what most people think it is. We trailblaze here. There isn't anyone to ask, there isn't any code to copy. The Internet can answer some questions but for the most part, when you work for the Largest Network West of the Mississippi there isn't much help available.
so you want my job, eh?
What do you do?
I smoke and drink Pepsi.
Developing software isn't what you think it is unless you too are a network programmer or software developer. There are no graphics. Screens are all white, navy, and maroon or something like that. We don't have time to do matching color themes. That's why we blog during our lunch while waiting for the switch to arrive.
Play with the color crayons of the IT world to rest the brain.
"She doesn't need a cane or crutches today, she's gonna get on her broom and fly down the hall"
he said this morning.
I'm not good at dealing with difficult people, actually I am probably the difficult one, with negotiating skills commensurate with the skills required to analyze, synthesize, and program. Relationships with programs and computers consists of being either right or not. There is no negotiating.
And, don't call me a coder. Not today. This coding attitude requires a certain amount of mental inertia and I may ask you if you would like a satellite with that. Kids are coders, professionals are called Software Specialists or Senior Programmer Analysts or some variation. We are not "coders".
The Box
Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming
Copy and paste this in your blog or web page.
Put code in quotes all on one line. It will look like this.
Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming
Mandarin Quija Board
The Mystifying Oracle
Do you notice anything different? Are you still wondering what a Quiji Board is? I'm sitting here with my new Quija (yes, spelled Q-U-I-J-A) keychain that includes a mini message indicator.
Quija
Do you know how many accidental tourists land here looking for a Quiji Board? It was the same when we spelled Sports Illustrated with one "l". Lots of folks looking for the Sports Ilustrated (sic) Swimsuit Edition. It's SI.COM so you don't need to know how to spell.
Mandarin Quija Board
How does it work? You click on a square and look for synchronicity, questions, answers, and hocus pocus. A random click. Sort of like our random spelling, just pick a letter, any letter will do. Wait, let's mix it up here and there first, leaving fp in first position and The Kid next to him and then The Dude. After that it's random.
In the Blogs...
Image Alignment
We've been blogging around Top 100 territory and found some good Blogs, but none were better than our regular reads. So here we sit with these coke bottles and thought it might be interesting to recycle them. We never align to the left and to the right at the same time. Let's try it. Here, have a Coke and try it at your place too.
The Coke Code
The Coke code looks like this.
Copy and paste from here (images will insert automatically).
It will look like this.
YOUR WORDS GO HERE MAYBE YOU WILL ALIGN IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES MORE SENSE
That was fun for me. You?
CALIFORNIASTATEWIDE SPECIAL ELECTION
Court Reinstates Oct. 7 California Recall
Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 | Updated 3:08 p.m. ET
The 9th Circuit Court rejects earlier decision; ACLU says it won't appeal
There are about 130 candidates to research. We started with the first name on our ballot. The candidate names are in random order within each County, and then again at the precinct level, or something like that.
Each candidate's Statement is included. It looks like they have a word limit of 100 or 200 words. Kevin's statement is as follows:
I breath
We sent this to Kevin.
Dude, you are in the #1 position
on our Sample Ballot. Wanna copy?
Reply
Cool. Here's my address...
Later, Kev
We've selected our candidates and will mail the souvenir ballot to Kevin today. We don't talk politics at Mandarin since there are party lines drawn even within the room where we sit (as Rob tries to take over the keyboard, darn Republicans).
and rat bast*rds demOcrats rob so whatifi can't typETechnorati 100 Top Blogs
This list is easier. We can click on each one and decide which blogs belong in the Top 100.
Abby Elena
September 21, 2003
"Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born."
George Bernard Shaw
Baby Abby Elena, you lit a new fire today so unlike we imagined. Gentle and precious, with long blond hair and eyes that shine bright blue, defying the brown of the mother and father. A September baby. We went to welcome you into our world today and instead you welcomed us into your heart. May your tiny tears always be so sweet as for the want of of the Gardenia that bloomed for you today.
Clickable Thumbnail
<a href="big.jpg"> <img src="small.jpg" border=0 width=100 height=75> </a>
Clickable thumbnails. Why do you use two pictures?
Why do you bother to create a small image and a large image when you have already specified the size in the IMG tag?
Click the Small Image to see the Big Image
The intent of a clickable thumbnail is not usually to save screen space. A small image is often (usually) used to increase page load time. Changing the image size by manipulating the width and height will make the image display smaller but the browser still has to load the big image.
The small image is 3643 bytes
Right-click on the image and view the properties. It will load relatively fast, but will still visibly slow down the load time for dialup connections. The large image is a whopping 52,184 bytes and can take twenty seconds or more to load. We don't usually see the slow load when we post the image since it is already in our cache and we are loading it locally. It loads fast from here.
The dreaded blue border.
If we forget to include border="0" our hyperlinked image will have a blue border. Again, since we have clicked on it already we see the defined visited link color rather than the blue border. It's polite to tell us when our blue is showing (Gary, the border around the image you made for Technorati is blue).
We can recycle images that have already loaded. This sunflower that we snapped this morning can be repeated without any cost in bandwidth.
Truncate Overflow
Taming the Stephen Downes Referrer Script
It's easy to customize the way this referral script looks and we really do like it with the the CSS Style added.
overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis
The overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis keeps the data contained within the 300 pixel width we defined.
moving the live script
List referrers to your own site with a single Javascript command. Click here
Customize the Look
The code for the referral script is open source Perl but we can't get it to work here. So, we continue to use the one-line script that runs at Stephens Downes's server.
Use Your Own Version of the Code
Do you know anyone who has been able to copy the .js and .cgi code and get it to work on their own server? We aren't having much luck. Other Perl code runs, but troubleshooting is not easy on this one.
FAREWELL ISABEL
It has been a long day. Let's play. We found a fish in the Gallery but changed it to a wave overhead. There are some new images that are 100x100 pixels, and we found a dotted border in the Boxes and Borders page. The colors in the Color Chart were fun to play with but we selected the old favorite - seventy, eighty, ninety #708090
Technorati with Your Photograph
Find out who is linking to you.
Scroll down in Plato Shrimp's Technorati Cosmos. Notice
the pictures of the people who link to Ann?
Hey! Your picture isn't in our Technorati
If you look at Mandarin's Technorati Cosmos you will not see many photos. Why? Because most of you haven't added your picture to Technorati yet.
Sign up for Technorati
It's easy (and free) to Sign Up for Technorati and add or update your your photograph.
Make an Image: Size 40 x 60
You might want to submit an image that is already sized 40 x 60, the size that Technorati displays.
For example, Ann might want to use one of these images in Technorati.
Halloween Colored Box
"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. "
-- Iris Murdoch
Copy and paste (or type) this code in your blog or Web page for a Halloween box.
<DIV align="center"> <div style="width:150px;text-align:left; padding:10px;background-color: #FF6600; border:1px solid black;font-size:10px;"> YOUR TEXT GOES HERE </div> </DIV>
Or copy and paste from here.
It will look like this.
What is a Tag Board
and How Can I Get One?
Interaction is Free. Look here.
How can I customize my Tag Board?
Add some STYLE as in
style="color:orange"
LINKS
To change the link color use style.
TEXT
Use <span> with style.
FORM TEXT and BACKGROUND
Use style.
FORM Submit BUTTON
Use style.
How can I customize my HTML form?
Tag boards, Web pages, or Blogs forms
A Simple Form
CSS style is not complicated. You just have to know where to add it. Here is the code for the simple form above. Notice that fonts and colors are defined usingstyle=
The Dreaded Purple Master came and said "kabitzin blogs ". That did it. The DogfightAtBankstown began. Even PaulKatcher was on The Other Side ChasingDaisy instead of the girls at Hooters. Plato Shrimp was posting MAD SCRIBBLINGS saying welcome to my small world.
The Great Quest had begun for Dublog. Who? There was a morph into the BLOGMIND - At Intellect's Edge of Chaos SHAMIT.
Luckily, Midwest Bloggin appeared and we Noded. Everything was Sugar 'n Spicy again.
We had The Lost Way but found The Libido and The Moon. A fellow who called himself peter_c_harris said that if we had read Johns Almost Daily Post we would know why Everything Burns.
It is intrinsic, From The Heart, and known only to the King's Kid. That was heavy, but somehow I knew from my testing times that Baldric's Trousers were the key to the price of bananas. So we got on the Spinning Coaster watching the graffiti in motion BLOG-EFL, loo who's yoo hoos, and more. When the coaster stopped we wondered What are words for.....if no one listens anymore ? The Burningbird knew that if the exclamation mark would resolve itself into The Lonely Rave the Inquiries of the Nomadic Mind could be at rest. The only hurdle left was Crossing the Rubicon. The Circadian Shift would occur simultaneously and could easily be synchronized with the 8 o'clock train.
A dizzy feeling of being Blond & Confused, My Life, flashed before me with a child saying welcome to my small world.
Are you God's Child?
I am one who saves those in Wealth Bondage. We breed InfoHunks. When the Sunflowr .: facing the light folds we go inside the Internal Thinkbox. It makes the the not-so-daily news on most days. Haven't you seen it?
No.
Did I miss out something?
Yes.
Try to bmoeasy. Sometimes Less Is More. You would know this if you had listened to the Confessions of a Rageboy Addict.
Djdeenah!!!
Djdeenah!!!
What's that? Shh, listen to mamamusings. Don't get hung up on Rageboy or Me, Myself & I. Read. Don't worry about the PageCount. And so I began to read Unix, Music, and Politics ... What was I thinking? The answer is not that simple, it will take A Collection of Thoughts and THERE AINT NO SANITY CLAUS.
Huh? Oh no. Not this.What? Haven't you ever seen a grlinabox before? Well, Thinking Over kengkengz blog and going into Witchy's Design Playground tells me that there is no reason to panic. They say Don't Panic @ journalspace because there is