Recent content by Flappy Moose

I've been down for a while, am just back, and have to relearn a lot. But in the past I used VirtualBox to set up a lot of virtual machines. Then I used a variety of different portable Firefox versions. I used public, not private, proxies and set up accounts in a variety of different cities...

I'm just coming back after a long layoff, have to learn a lot all over again, so I immediately found your question attractive. I've found the best place to start is with the psychological adjustment that learning this stuff requires. The first is that beginning to learn any complex technical...

I also use one of the Firefox add-ons that saves a web page in .pdf format. I find it incredibly useful when there's a site whose design I want to "borrow," or when I see some good ideas on a site I'm visiting. Bookmarks are useful, but having a .pdf file on my hard drive is almost always better.

I keep a copy of portable Notepad++ loaded to record uncategorized notes. Anything that catches my mind when I'm browsing goes into a standard note file. Most of the time I don't ever go back to it; important ideas seem to stick in my mind. Or at least they stick in another copy of The Guide...

Sticky question. My thoughts are that you can normally get away with using images as part of what is called "editorial comment." Write something, good or bad about Rush Limbaugh and you can probably use his image. Commercial issues are more complex, I seem to recall. This is especially true if...

Here's a few thoughts. Names aren't copyrightable in the usual sense but there are trademarks and fraud is an issue. Put another way, if you look through all the phone books in the country you will probably find a dozen or more "Rush Limbaugh"s. But you can get into lots of trouble if you...

My first guess is that the fastest, easiest way to solve the existing problem, and future potential ones as well, is to junk the site. That is, perhaps register another name, copy your existing code over with the name change, and put it back up on the server you're using. Then just delete the...

I've written, researched, edited, and proofread. I've found that proofreading for content takes me more time -- measured on a per word basis -- than writing the whole thing myself, at least if I have any knowledge of the topic. I've run into problems similar to the one you mentioned, where the...