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I've been doing a lot of design work lately, and have had very little time in doing any web-related programming or similar activity. This is no different, but because I've been working in the new Microsoft Office 2007 product suite (mostly Microsoft Word), I've had an opportunity to learn a few things I didn't know how to do before. Today, I needed to try to prevent an image from being modified (moved, resized, removed, changed, etc...) within a document (a redesigned organizational letterhead). This worked fairly well, except I had used a document header and footer which also needed to allow for modification (in the header), but preventing changes wouldn't let me access the header. Regardless, the instructions and steps used in the article I'm about to link you all to were extremely useful and quite cool. I know some of these existed in earlier versions of Word, but even so...

"What Does Structured Editing Mean, Anyway?"
I hope this can help someone else someday.

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

Sometimes you know that allowing comments is a bad thing. Comment moderation is only so good, and Akismet and similar filters are better suited for certain situations or applications. Therefore, you need reasons why not to allow comments, and to prove to your stakeholders and target audience that this is a bad thing. So, what reasons could there be? Well, if your stakeholders have a bit of trashy humor and can watch some semi-vulgar language video, here are two reasons:

1. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556
2. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1776175

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Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

It's mind boggling to me how often I see simple errors on prominently displayed advertisements for a web-based (or other) firm.



Now, although I can possibly understand why the text in the bottom blue area isn't centered in a symmetrical manner, how rushed could it have been to completely miss a spelling error? Even for a one-man operation, which I would imagine this is not, for something as important as an image that's to be shown across the world, wouldn't you check and double check everything? Obviously some time went in to the design of the art, so why sloppily supply the text within the graphic? Sheesh...

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

Whether you like George Bush or not, you have to admit this is funny.

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

...or would I prefer to just attach this to my kids' car when (and if) I have kids? Both options seem reasonably fun to me!

Track your trip with lost-cost GPS tracker!

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski