James R Sullivan

I love when people proclaiming to do it right do it so wrong. This website which is focused on “User Interface Engineering” has an RSS feed, but not one that you can subscribe to via the normal meta tags. They require you navigate all the way down the page and look on the right side and they call it an XML Feed. I just thought it was funny.

If you are making a website – and who isn’t lately – you need to make a theme for the site.  I an not stylistically inclined and am also colorblind, so I have a couple tools that I use when building sites that help me with that side of things.  One of them is ColorSchemeDesigner.com – a really great tool to help you get your colors right.

Previously, most of my sites were “yellow”, “green”, and “red” to add color.  Now they are shades of all different colors that actually jive together.  I don’t recognize much of the improvement but people say it’s better.

Watching a video like of “Improv Everywhere” doing an escalator high-5 and seeing the smiling faces of the people getting off the train convinces me that arts have a place in every day life.

The last truly usable, well-performing version of Excel is obviously Excel 2003. It has all the features you need without the needlessly redesigned UI and massive bloat. Plus, it works nice and quickly in my XP virtual machine on my MacBook Pro.

Unfortunately I made the mistake of using Windows Update on automatic mode.  It installed some garbage called “Office Live Add-in” which will not go away.  Even when you disable the toolbar, delete it, whatever… it comes back every time you restart Excel.  Here’s how it works:

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