http://blog.paulpehrson.com Paul Pehrson's technical writing blog Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:00:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my spare time I occasionally do some web design and web hosting work for a couple of different clients. Mostly these are my family members, friends, and neighbors who need a relatively simple website and a place to host it. Recently I started helping out an uncle with a site ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/07/02/communication-isnt-always-easy/ I saw WALL-E last weekend with my wife, and we had a really good time. The movie was fun, and really worth seeing. I have to admit that when I first saw EVE, I leaned over to my wife and said, "She's a Mac, and he's a PC" which led ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/07/01/wall-e/ Today I was reading a CNN.com news article on the largest scientific experiment in history, an atom collider being built in Eurpoe, when I encountered the following quote: The machine, which has been called the largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin test runs until August, and ramping up ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/06/30/expecting-the-unexpected/ >компютриw is an interview with ABC4, plus video of the event. Check out time stamp 0:35 - 0:59. http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/05/28/abc-4-video-with-short-interview/ Here is my brother, Rick, shaking hands with the leader of the free world: I hope you don't mind me taking a bit of personal license with my blog the last couple of days. It's not very often that something THIS cool happens to anybody I know. :) BTW, the photo was ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/05/28/the-kodak-moment-of-a-lifetime/ Here is another video of my now-famous brother. It was posted on ABC-4's website. http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/05/27/yet-another-video-this-one-from-abc4/ Another news video of my brother preparing to meet President Bush: http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/05/27/another-video-of-my-brother/ Here is a video about my brother, who is going to meet President Bush tomorrow to receive an award: DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"42748",videoAdConDefID:"6",continuousPlay:"true",autoPlay:"false",accPos:"CCTVI.VIDEO.LOCAL",accSite:"KUTV",rootCategory:"0",playerInstanceID:"6079F2D7-64DE-7731-AEBE-0BBA248311D6",domain:"kutv.dayport.com"}); And here is the text of the accompanying news story: SALT LAKE CITY - President George W. Bush will travel to Utah on Wednesday, where he will present an award to a local ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/05/27/shameless-brother-promotion/ Here is a Dilbert cartoon discussing the never ending question of quality versus quantity: mebelimebeli mebeli When my wife was working on her master's thesis, she had a friend who told her "there are two kinds of theses: good theses, and finished theses." My work feels like that a lot... ---- Note: If you linked ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/04/21/quantity-vs-quality/ Adobe recently released a beta version of Photoshop Express, a free online photo editor. I created an account today, and I'm impressed. I think in terms of features, it is comparable to Google's Picasa program, but it doesn't require you to download any software. Adobe is providing 2GB of storage ... http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/03/28/photoshop-for-the-masses-for-free/