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a day late and a :: dollarshort.org. Mena is the author of Moveable Type along with Ben her husband. Here is here award winning blog.

JavaScript: need Scrolling side navigation bar. The one thing that is missing when I start the conversion over to a non-FrontPage web site is creating the navigation bars. A quick search shows there are bars aplenty. Here is quick list… http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/smith_menu/smith_menu.html http://www.treemenu.com/ http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/instructions/noframes/step1.html http://webreference.com/dhtml/dynomat/hiermenus3/ie/index.html http://www.bratta.com/dhtml/scripts.asp?url=scripts/scripts.asp?id=28&ac=7&order=created http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/navigate1.htm http://www.ivanpeters.com/

NetMagazines.com: Lowest Price Guaranteed with 1353 Titles!. I ordered a few magazines from them. They seem to have the lowest prices. Just make sure to use their various coupons and things. Their rack rates are the same as say Amazon, but not if you take advantage of their sales.

Google Rank back to 4. Hooray, my Google PageRank is back to 4. I’m so happy!

Freeware website software search continues OK, now that I’ve got b2 running on my machine along with PHP, I thought I’d try some other content management systems. This next one is a challenge since it requires an apache server PHP-Nuke. Another content management system to look at. Makes things look…

Next PC to Buy I’m also going to put a new graphic card into Grace’s machine. Want to get an nVidia, but this piece shows, the new NV30 is the one to wait for in November. Otherwise, it’s a midrange Radeon. The couple of clipped articles here should give you…

Tom’s Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Hot Contraband: P4 With 3.6 GHz – Comparison Of All P4 CPUs. I can’t believe it, but it is time for me to think about upgrading computers again. Our main server is a Pentium IV 450MHz. The screamer of three years ago. Grace has a…

High Quality MP3 Encoding OK, this was one night project to figure out how to do really high quality. Some would say archival MP3s. Boy, did I learn a lot between 1AM and 10PM. Suffice to say that encoding is very complicated. The summary of what I learned is: MusicMatch…

Discussion of Audio Compression. I’ve been doing a lot of MP3 encoding. Finally decided to see who had actually tested it. This is a wonderful site with lots of information and ont much beauty, but it sure is helpful.

Rolling Requiem. Pretty amazing what the Internet can do. This was a project to play Mozart’s Requim around the world on September 11, 2002. From right here in Seattle too.