New Year’s Resolutions

2009 Resolutions:

  1. Phase meat and dairy out of my regular diet (I have a year, not cold turkey). FAIL
  2. Save money. I’m tired of living paycheck to paycheck. WIN
  3. Make the non-profit org I started official. WIN
  4. Upgrade my job. I either need a new one or a raise. FAIL
  5. Get back to Jiu-Jitsu (This depends a lot on resolution 2 and 4, but I miss it so). FAIL

Reason #4,136 why Internet Explorer sucks

Fun experiment:

  1. Try making a form that has an image for a submit button and captures all relevant data in Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, or Safari
  2. Now do the same thing in Internet Explorer
  3. How many work-arounds did you have to use? (from 1 to impossible depending on what it’s for)
  4. How reliable are they? (never 100%)
  5. How many would you have needed if IE followed w3c standards? (0)

(technically this is aimed at Opera too, you IE wannabe…)

Preloaded software…

I appreciate preloaded software on a new PC like I appreciate prescratched paint on a new car.

Why can’t you order a pc with windows without getting useless proprietary software from the people who sold it to you (dell, hp, etc).

Useless programs are the enemy, 99% of setup should not involve just deleting things.

Non profit org for families in need

It started as just volunteering to do web design for a local charitable non-profit, but ended up with me being on the board of directors. I just attended my first meeting.

The group organizes fun events (very golf-centric) and then donates the proceeds to needy families (something they had been doing before he made it an official non-profit)

Still waiting on 501c3 status (applied for). Edit: We were granted 501(c)3 status.