Work

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

Continue reading "Reasons Not to Allow Comments"

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Courtesy of XKCD:

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

I love my daily dose of XKCD.

...also befitting if you date a librarian.

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

As promised to Mike, I kept a running tally of the number of times I heard Michael say the word "Hot". Seemingly this word had been popularized within his presentations, but that time seems to have since passed, as you can see from the stats below. However, whilst listening to Michael speak, I did notice a different word that was much more prominent (though definitely helpful during the presentation to emphasize points). I also tracked a different, never oft-used word.

"Hot": 5
"Yay": 18
"Kerfuffle": 2

Kerfuffle?! Ha! Neat.
In context (I think): "Without first learning how to use the (blank) before releasing it to the hounds, it caused an unnecessary kerfuffle." ...he so much more eloquently used this interesting word. I don't think I quite captured its spirit.

Continue reading "Michael Stephens and my Word Count Tally"

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski