In the blogosphere of late are a couple of interesting posts about client/contractor relationships. Over at StuntDubl, Todd Malicoat features a humorous, albeit relevant post about how to “Break up with bad clients.” Somehow, yours truly ended up with one of her “breakup lines” in the list.

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WordPress gets better and better by the day. It has always been great, but with plug-ins I have found it beyond great. One of my favorite plug-ins has always been the semi-static front page plug in from SemiLogic. It was part of my standard install until the latest version of WordPress that well … builds the feature in standard. Go to Options > Reading > Front Page. First create your front page and then select it.

HTML.it has some nice clean css/html page layouts offered over on their site. Not a bad place to start designing a good clean layout.

My son is inclined to throw money around like he has not responsibilities in life. Perhaps that is because for the most part that is true. He has income, but very few expenses that are mandatory. He is in the perfect part of his life.

He regularly says that one should not skimp in several areas of one’s life. Specifically:

1. food — always buy quality
2. tools — you will have them for years if you buy the good ones and weeks if you don’t
3. tape — duct tape isn’t generic, there is good duct tape and well stuff that pretends to be duct tape
4. adhesives — one of my favorite products of all time is Loctite 401 (specifications). It isn’t cheap, but it is good. Miracle glue appears cheaper at a buck or two a tube, but you use a new tube basically every time you need to glue something because it dried out. Loctite 401 stored in a fridge has a several year shelf life. It doesn’t run like the other quick glues. It has body so that it will bind and works on many porous materials … try that with your miracle glue! Get some and be happy.

This site looks to have some very nice tutorials on css (Cascading Style Sheets), including lists and floats. From a quick look it appears easy to follow as well and written in plain English. I’m putting it on my todo list.

Society is working towards making ADHD obsolete. Soon that will seem but a distanct memory to our newly dysfunctional society. Why twitter vision? Cause you cannot follow a thread even for a minute. And we thought chat rooms were bad?

It seems that the French upper house is about to swap from Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu Linux for their PC requirements. They join a growing list of governments who have realised that you don’t need to upgrade hardware to anywhere near the same extent that you do with Windows. (VISTA might run on midrange XP class hardware, but it certainly isn’t a responsive experience.) Not to mention the fact that Firefox/Thunderbird and Openoffice.org are becoming more than competitive to their Windows competitors and the only real costs of the conversion are setup and training.

Read more about it at zdnet.