Archive for August 2006

Entertaining, AND food for thought…. The Payroll Employment Game

Here’s an interesting Game.  It’s not your normal online game at all…. this one’s got some meat on its bones:  it’s a way of feeling out how you would fare if you were trading on the markets, betting on the BLS report of the current employment situation (released first Friday each month).
The Game allows you [...]

Map testing

More stuff to test…. using the html view to delete the stuff that causes the validate to bork.
View map

Test a graphic insert

since the map thing borked the validation big time….

And actually, only one little error, which I was able to edit out, hopefully without screwing anything up.

Well, here’s one man and one site with a Katrina initiative

and believe me when I tell you it’s not George W. Bush….
Yard by Yard – Reggie and the NFL run for Katrina refugees
Be warned though:  you must have Flash8 installed, and the site’s not particularly kind to Firefox.  No matter, it’s nice site and a more than worthy cause.
There ARE people out there who are [...]

Even better than WLW -

I reported earlier in the week on using the WindowsLiveWriter as a blogging client.  It’s a more than decent option; but I’ve since run across something that’s even better:  the Performancing extension for Firefox.
It does everything WLW does, and lives on the Firefox status bar.  I have it set to open in a new FF [...]