The States I have Visited

The different States of the USA, of course. The site also features a “Which Countries I Have Visited”, but mine is boring, comprised only of USA, Canada and Mexico. Must recitfy that. Anywho, here is the extent of my USA travels: create your own visited states map or check out these Google Hacks.

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Publishing Home Page

It is now official, my home page tel-cor.com is being managed by Blog:CMS. While a few rough spots exist, it is functionally complete. The time and effort provided training with Blog:CMS. Like most Free software, Blog:CMS suffers from inconsistent documentation. This proved a challenge in learning and drawing together the various bits of knowledge. Thankfully [...]

Gecko DOM oddity

While writing some DOM parsing code for client-side form validation, I encountered an oddity with recent gecko based browsers. Rather than displaying a Javascript alert box, I’m creating textnodes and appending them to an existing DIV. The text contains statements detailing the errors with the form, and instructions to fix the errors. Intially I hid [...]

Google mail…Google browser?

At Arstechnica this morning, they are reporting (from the NY Post) trends that suggest Google maybe targeting browsers as their next foray. Apparently a number of people with browser building skills were recently hired, and the domain gbrowser is held by Google. Ars asks “The larger question is one of why. Why a browser? What [...]

Alert! Anti-bacterial not the same as Anti-viral!

By way of Arstechnica’s Science Sunday column, a report on MSNBC titled Anti-bacterial soap may disappoint clarifies the role of anti-bacterial soaps and other cleaners. Apparently confusion exists in the minds of people that such cleaners provide protection against all manner of microbes.

The response from the manufacturer’s of such products is understandable:

“It’s [...]