September, 2006

Here’s something I’ll bet you didn’t know. Flickr blocks non-camera-generated images from public viewing areas, including rss feeds! I found this out recently in trying to set up a flickr group for “Godly Creative People](http://godlycreatives.com/ in which members can upload and share images of their creative works. The idea is to have people submit an [...]

A friend and I were chatting and talking about getting rid of things that stand between us and God (burning them, actually). I laughed, saying my computer would be first to go. He said he’d have to throw himself into the fire, which opens up a whole other conversation on loving wrath, but basically, we agree that the problems in our lives are not always the actual problem.

A friend and I were chatting and talking about getting rid of things that stand between us and God (burning them, actually). I laughed, saying my computer would be first to go. He said he’d have to throw himself into the fire, which opens up a whole other conversation on loving wrath, but basically, we agree that the problems in our lives are not always the actual problem.

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Last night around midnight I got an email from “Text Link Ads](http://www.text-link-ads.com/ telling us about a private beta for feed ads, which of course they asked us to keep hush-hush. I was sufficiently interested, thinking it could be of some benefit to me, even though “Feedburner](http://feedburner.com already supports ads. But, I didn’t get a chance [...]

Remember “CSS Naked Day](http://www.dustindiaz.com/naked-day/? Well, there’s a reason for that event. The point was to see how your site would stand up when styles were completely removed. Would it look the same because you used nested tables and inline styles? Would it totally break because you used a mashup of both? Or, would it flow [...]

In an old classic, Dorothy exclaims, “quote and cite and blockquote! Oh, my!” “Wizard of Oz(actually, it was ‘Lions and tigers and bears’ but you may not know that if I didn’t cite it)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes/ How are we to reference this quotation from this famous movie? Every which way we like, that’s how. Actually, [...]

The “Pink for October](http://pinkforoctober.org/ theme is going up early. Looking at my schedule for this week, I’ve got so much going on (including writing about breast cancer) I just know I’ll forget to put it up on time to have time to tweak it, so I’m doing it today to get it out of the [...]

I’m gathering some notes for a new article, for a big design magazine I won’t spill yet, on footers. I’ll be talking about a lot of the new things being done with footers starting with the “fat” footers that took off last year. So, as any good writer does in preparing for a more substantial [...]

I’m leaving in the morning to go to Indianapolis for an “AIGA Conference](http://www.indianapolis.aiga.org/incommand06/index.shtm there Friday, so I know a few of you are in that area – if you want to have a cup of coffee, email me tonight and we can work out a plan. I’ll be driving, then seeing clients and friends most [...]

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A feature from Vitamin entitled “Why standards still matter](http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/why-standards-still-matter got me thinking today about evangelism in relation to web standards. I do this a lot, but haven’t talked about it recently. My whole Standards for Life thing isn’t a phase. It’s not a bandwagon kind of craze that I’m going to out grow or out [...]

I left off last with “my summer playlist](http://nataliejost.com/blog/playlist-summer-2006 because the songs were all just too good so I was listening to them all summer. But as autumn rolls through this tiny town and the leaves start to change, I feel the music change too. The faster dance tunes and rockin’ road songs are sliding backstage [...]

Since buckling down and learning to hard code all of my designs from scratch, I’ve developed a pet peeve so huge it’s bordering on something much worse than peeve and closer to murderous ire, for all of the programs out there which do the work for you. Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Word, they all claim to give [...]

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Shirley Temple, they called her, with the short hair full of little curls. She lit up the room, as she’s known to do, while Diana with the stethoscope checked for signs of trouble.

My daughter (AJ) had to get shots yesterday. While this would normally have been a painful event for most kids, I’ve always been [...]

Conversation with a clueless solicitor looking for cheap design work

I just got an email from a well-meaning relative. The first line was in big bright pink “Comic Sans](http://www.bancomicsans.com/home.html and read: “If you delete after reading … you’ll spend a year of ill luck!” So… if I delete it BEFORE reading, I’m okay, it sounds like. Cool!

Yes I do! I charge a reasonable hourly rate and I can give you a quote based on about how much time your project will take. Feel free to “email me](mailto:work`nataliejost.com any time to talk about what I can offer to your project.

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