Archive for October, 2006

Stupid Tech Support Tricks - Copying Windows error messages

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Well, not “tricks” - just one. But it’s a cool one.
In Windows, you can copy the text of many OS or program error messages using the standard Windows copy keyboard shortcut; Ctrl+C.
The nice thing about this is that it copies all the text from the dialog in plain text, so it’s easy to paste into [...]

“Be Prepared,” or “Adapt Improvise and Overcome”

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Connor (and the rest of us) is experiencing his first cold. As far as colds go, this one is pretty minor - he’s still really active though he is sleeping a bit more. But he is also congested so his Grandmother bought him a humidifier. Our water isn’t hard enough for it though, so [...]

Connor’s first code

Friday, October 6th, 2006

I let Connor bang away on the keyboard yesterday and this is what he came up with:
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He immediately threw a fit when he was done. I guess because it wouldn’t validate.
Can anyone recommend a Baby’s First HTML/CSS book? :)