Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Good SW Essays

A good collection of software essays is listed on Joel on Software discussion group.

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Monday, October 25th, 2004

Open Course Ware at MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers much of the course material from more than 500 of thier courses at the MIT OpenCourseWare website. It’s a great resource when you want to brush up on a subject or learn something new.

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Friday, October 15th, 2004

A Tiny Little PC

The OQO is a tiny computer that looks pretty cool. It’s only 5in wide by 3.5in tall by 0.9in thick and it includes a 1GHz Transmeta processor, 20 GB hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM. Will this type of thing get cheaper and kill the PDA?

The OQO computer in someone's hands

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Monday, October 11th, 2004

Are You a Dummy About Fixin Yo Car?

Auto Repair 101 is a good beginner’s guide to car repair. I like to read up a bit before heading to the shop, so that I at least sound like I know what I’m talking about.

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Improve Frame

My one trusty reader, Steve Hoelzer, may have to geek out and update his cool CSS frame demo once he sees this great CSS box made from a single image. The one-image one is fixed-width, so it’s not quite as flexible as Steve’s.

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Common Web Design Mistakes

Roger Johansson has put together a very complete list of web development mistakes that many people make. I sure make a few of them, but hope to fix them soon!

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