If you frequent group and forums dedicated to Designers, Teachers & Retailrs, hardly a month goes by that someone does not “come on”, post a message about how they are in some way new (New to Designing, Teaching, Show Owning or just new to the list)

Usually these message go on to ask for advice on some subject and FWIW, this is why I read those groups more than anything else the answers and ideas often inspire other ideas, or add to existing plans or otherwise modify my “business plans”.

SO for those just starting out, IF I had it over to do again I wish I had listened YEARS earlier when TH and Dave McCormick and all the great programmers who tried to get me to stop wasting valuable coding time and learn the basics of CSS.

And here is where I plug the book I call my Web BIble,

HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML & CSS: 5th Ed.

By Elizabeth Castro.

ISBN: 0321130073

Peach Pit Press

WWW traditionally “stands for” World Wide Web, although if you are reading this, then you know it also means “What Wheat Wrote”.

Over these past 30+ years (Are you old enough to remember when there was no Web & we communicated by text only in “news groups” )

And, over those years, it amuzing to me how many of my rather strongly held opinions and ideas can be used with a bit of tweaking. With that in mind, I have begun the process of dusting off old posts, fixing my notorious typos, and in some cases, “bringing it up to date”

I hope you will find some of these useful. They have been to me and mine over the years.

with thanks to Shoshana for posting this link to Quilt Art:

http://bertc.com/truth.htm

I especially enjoyed,

http://bertc.com/womansBrain.htm

It explains so many things

Peace Of The Season

Wouldn’t it be great if CALL Blocking could be used to keep you from doing something stupid.
Like calling someone on the West Coast – when you want a favor – at 6am because you get up at 5am EAST Coast time, so 8am feels like noon – so it must be okay to call =

I wish it was 30+ years ago, when we were all involved in developing custom calling services from Voice Mail to Call Blocking and had thought about a service where if you could program your phone to act like your computer before your delete something

So any time you dial outside your time zone you get a message like;

“The party you are calling is located in a different time zone, the local time is:
day, date, time – Press 1 to continue

Wheat
blasting the house with music from the “real” Woodstock era – when the Fillmore East & West was Live & Wild courtesy of the Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today

Earlier today this wonderful fiber artist posted a message to an Art Quilt group asking if it was Okay to make stockings for her nephew and grandson in Blue & Orange & Black

Never mind the thoughts of NYS Trooper cars of years past – A high school I’d rather forget and even for a brief moment some snarky references to halloween,

Oh My GOODNESS,

Peace of the Season

Wheat