One point. One single, solitary point. That’s how much I helped the Union County High School girls basketball team in 1981. No, not one point per game, but one point in an entire season! Until I pulled this picture out recently to share with my friend Don Yaeger after reading his post about Beth Brooke […]
A picture can’t paint 1,000 words without alt text
The Bread song “If” says: If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can’t I paint you? It turns out, pictures can’t … express pictures for visually impaired computer users without words. Those words are Alt text. I don’t fully understand Alt text, but as usual, I’m going to try to make progress toward […]
“Is that email really spam?” and other hidden gems
The heart of a news story is often found buried within lines and lines of information. That was often the case with my favorite SmartBrief stories last month. BoardSource MacKenzie Scott (former wife of Jeff Bezos) gave over $4 billion to 384 groups last year, landing her the number two spot on the Philanthropy 50 […]
The hidden cost of cutting corners on your blog
I published Gotta Start Somewhere, my first blog post, on May 17, 2008. I committed to weekly blogging on June 28, 2009, and have missed less than five Sundays since then. Almost 12 years later, I’m here to tell you that being frugal about managing the back end of my blog did not serve me […]
I have a question … or do I?
I exchanged messages recently with someone I had not communicated with for a few years. Between the last time we talked and the recent message, I had started working at my current job. The person I was talking to asked how my job was going. “I had a whole other career prior to this, so […]
Five Minute Friday: Does it matter how I park?
ONCE: Not once have I ever tried back in angle parking in our city. Back in angle parking (and I really have no idea the grammar of this — is it “back-in angle parking”?) is a parking scheme where drivers are required to back in to parking spots. Although many of us may choose to […]