What a week… Published June 10, 2004
First Reagan, now Ray Charles. local6.com – Entertainment – Music Legend Ray Charles Dies
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Useful Web Tools Published June 1, 2004
Universal Accessibility In Practice CSS Filters Client Quotes!!!
Web Standards Presentation Published May 28, 2004
I gave my presentation on web standards today. I covered XHTML and CSS and how they can be used to create websites that separate design from presentation. We spent about 90 minutes going over the concepts and some demonstrations. Download the PowerPoint slides
Again and Again Published May 26, 2004
Mom’s back in the hospital again because she’s in pain. Today will be her first treatment with the higher dosage of the medicine, and I understand they are going to suppliment the antibodies with some other drugs. Mom still seems optimistic though. In case you didn’t know, her lymphoma has been upgraded to “large cell lymphoma”, a more agressive type. She was given the option of chemotherapy or a bone-marrow transplant, but either of those choices would be an option if the lymphoma returned after treatment.
Supreme Court Rules on ADA case Published May 17, 2004
In a major victory for disabled Americans, the Supreme Court Monday ruled they deserve equal access and accommodation at government buildings, such as courthouses and schools, in all states. Read the opinion of the court or read the summary at CNN..
The Big Shindigg Published May 17, 2004
We had the big May Birthday Party this weekend. This year, Carissa and I threw a surprise party for my mom and dad. My aunt Annie and my uncle Bob came up from Illinois, and they brought my grandma with them. It was great to see them all and my dad was quite surprised as well. My other grandma came also, as well as my aunt Mary Kay and my uncle Ben, with whom we always share special occasions.
The XP FIrewall Published May 7, 2004
ZDNet is running a story that predicts the death of third-party firewalls now that the XP Firewall will be turned on by default in the next service pack for Windows XP. This is simply not true. The Microsoft firewall can be disabled with three lines of VBScript code. This has been tested by sysadmins on Service Pack 2 betas in order to allow remote administration of machines. I’d bet that non-MS firewalls can’t be disabled this easily.
AVSERVE2 – New Worm found Published May 6, 2004
I’m finding a nasty little memory hogging trojan / worm thingy related to the Sasser worm on a few of the machines in my office. See this page for some info on how to get rid of it. Check your task manager. If you see AVSERVER2.EXE running, you should nuke it. If you can’t get rid of it manually, you can use PSKILL from SysInternals to forcefully kill the process.
Free VB.NET Published May 6, 2004
Watch some movies and rate them and get a free copy of VB.NET Standard here. You don’t have to watch the movies.. just rate them! Update: I never got mine. What a rip!
More Space Published May 4, 2004
I picked up a 160gb hard drive last night for . My server is running out of space and I couldn’t wait any more. It was the best deal I could find in town, and after some recent hard drive freakouts, my server needed a new drive. I spent last night moving files to it and it looks like everything is working. It wasn’t what I had in mind for last night, but it’s still something I am glad I got out of the way.