Useful Stuff of various sorts

How to Defuse the IRA Tax Time Bomb

with Ed Slott's helpful book, and website.

A book review of "Critical Chain"

that I wrote in 1998, with a synopsis of the author's ideas about project management.

25 fallacies

in reasoning, just in case you're not sure about that argument you heard someone spout off...

Three cross-platform javascript approaches to expandable/collapsible documents

Lightweight

Windows folder styled, goes back to IE4

Scripted document structuring

Matt Kruse's Javascript Toolbox has another well-documented example for scripted structuring, and a lot more good stuff.

Webhosting comparison chart

from long-ago shopping for a webhost. I settled on Westhost and have stayed a happy customer for 5+ years. I'm happy to refer you to them (and receive an exceedingly modest referral credit if you tell them I sent you).

My most-used software

This list was inspired by Dave Winer's list of his mission-critical software. He was interested in demonstrating that it's not "Open Source" that's essential. I'm interested in showing you that when it comes to software, it's often the case that the best things in life are free and providing pointers to those best things. This is more than 4 years old and needs updating, but vim still tops the list!

A compact manual for Server Side Includes

(SSI) on the Apache web server. Useful and simple HTML technology.

Extending tooltips with DHTML

and finding a twisty maze of bugs between us and where we want to go.

Exercise in CSS:

a scale "drawing" of a tennis court, turned out to be an Internet Explorer bug collector.

Ad Attack

responding to advertising on- and off-line, including information about monkey-wrenching Double Click's database of your online behavior.

The Honda Insight

A brief look at the new "Ultrahigh Efficiency Vehicle." (We bought a Prius in late 2001 and love it.)

Where everyone goes to search:

Google!

Live longer, happier, and with less stress

through a relatively simple attitude adjustment.

"Spam Is Not the Worst of It"

"Email etiquette and related gripes" useful to all email users. 1999 rant by "The Essayist" on the unquietmind.com.

A dozen tips to save space and time with Windows

Simple and effective improvements to your display, and to the way you get your computer work done.

How to deal with abusive persons

you may find on the 'net.

A recipe for invention,

step by step.

Interesting places on the web

from my point of view.

Top 10 questions

that science has yet to answer.

Treating small cuts with Cayenne Pepper.

Put a little spice in your First Aid kit!

How to weigh cannonballs

just in case you ever need to.

A "Dear Bill" letter,

that bounced, perhaps the antithesis of something "useful."

Tom von Alten      tva_∂t_fortboise_⋅_org

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