My wife, Mary Siever, received an email the other day with the subject “website”. Interestingly enough, nowhere in the email did it say anything about any website. Some advice: make sure the subject of your email has something to do with the content of your email. Particularly if the person you are writing received hundreds… Continue reading Email Subject
Author: Kim Siever
I am a copywriter and copyeditor. I blog on writing and social media tips mostly, but I sometimes throw in my thoughts about running a small business.
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Proper Names
Someone at work tried telling me that ‘keys’ in ‘USB keys’ should be capitalised because it is a proper name (such as John Smith or Minneapolis). Just to be clear, ‘USB keys’ is not a proper noun. Neither is ‘Zip drives’ or ‘floppy drives’ or ‘hard drives’ or ‘monitors’ or ‘printers’ or any other computer… Continue reading Proper Names
Restricting Input
My six-year-old daughter was playing on Strudel Doodle this morning. It’s basically an online drawing application where users can submit their drawings for a prize. So my daughter arrived at the page and clicked on “GO DOODLE!”. Then she clicked on the redundant “START DOODLING” button on the following page. Then she clicked on the… Continue reading Restricting Input
IE7 Beta 1
Dean, the guy responsible for IE7, announced yesterday that Windows Vista (and concurrently IE7) Beta 1 has been released. After reading the IE7 Technology Overview, I am please to see some of the new features that will be available in the new version of IE. tabbed browsing better user interface proactive security notifications (for phishing,… Continue reading IE7 Beta 1
Google Maps Hybrid
Google recently implemented a new feature on their maps page that allows users to overlay roads on satellite images. Just click on the “Hybrid” button next to the “Satellite” button on the maps. It seems to be more accurate than swtichign between the two old views.
2012 Olympic Logos
I am always interested in cool logos, and the logo for the London 2012 olympic games is one that I really like. It prompted me to take a look at the logos for the other four candidate cities (Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris). What I like about the London logo is how it represents… Continue reading 2012 Olympic Logos
Sidebar Update
I thought it was time to add some new people to my sidebar. Hugh Roper and Julian Rickards comment more on here than probably anyone else. As a result, I added links to their blogs in the sidebars. Thanks for your continued visits.
AJAX and ColdFusion
AJAX seems to be all the rage recently, what with all the hype behind GMail, Google Maps, flickr, and the like. I’ve been wanting to dabble in it to test out the waters before I implemented anything major. Cameron Adams recently published an AJAX article over at SitePoint, and it sold me on giving it… Continue reading AJAX and ColdFusion
Google Currency
Google now offers currency conversion among its calculator features. For example, the current exchange from one Canadian dollar to US dollars is 81.07 cents.
GMail RSS
I just realised today that GMail has an RSS feed. It seems it only works on unread messages in the inbox, however. No read messages and no archived new messages.