Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Today is a Holiday in California
Cesar Chavez Still Inspires MarchersToday is a holiday for California state workers, a day to honor Cesar Chavez who founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. He is credited with improving wages and working conditions for thousands of California Latinos. Chavez died in April of 1993. Our cousin, Al Rojas, is a former top aide to Cesar Chavez and speaks at commemorations of the life of the United Farm Workers leader. Along with Chavez he helped the Latino and immigrant people who work in the nation's fields and orchards. Today he is featured in the Sacramento Bee article Cesar Chavez Still Inspires Marchers
To honor Cesar Chavez we are using the color Tomato and the nice, but not always rendered, Papyrus font.
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Is Cesar Chavez Day observed in your state? Do you have a holiday that is unique to your area?
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Reusing Fabric: Images and Borders

I just came back from visiting Joel where he frames just about everything in the color named gold. And I'm beginning to think that even the piece of fabric will look good bordered in gold. Ha, and it does. But this post isn't really about gold or the fabric. It's about reusing images. One image (our scanned fabric) that is 11K is worth repeating. It only costs the first time we load it. Each display after the first costs little, nearly nothing in bandwidth. It's already in cache (pronounced the same as cash). A cache strategy for images still makes sense on the Web and in Blogworld where there are still folks on dialup. And we all want fast-loading pages.
Borders made with code are cheap - HTML and CSS takes very little time to load. Reusing images and applying borders is a way to make your page load faster.
If you plan a post for the first day of the month like Bryk does the image reuse starts making even more sense. Google tends to send visitors to archived pages. And since we archive monthly, reusing the same image during the month will make that full month page for March load even faster.
CSS Border: 1 pixel solid gold
A simple border only needs the style="border:1px solid gold;"
added to the IMG
tag.
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CSS Border: 5 pixel solid gold
A simple border only needs the style="border:5px solid gold;"
added to the IMG
tag.
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Dotted Border 2 pixel gold
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Dashed Border 1 pixel gold
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Matted Style Border gold

This image with a frame and matte is coded for floating an image to the left with padding of 10 pixels between the image and the text. You can copy the code (image included) and use it as it is. Or copy the code and then insert the name of your image and the width and height of your image. The rest of the code doesn't need to be changed.
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There's more about CSS Borders and Mattes with copy and paste centered borders using white mattes and other colors. This example uses a span with padding to put the gold around the image and then a solid black border around the image.
Monday, March 29, 2004

(April 2004)
I wrote this for my friend who bought his first PC a few months ago. He's technical but more so in the mainframe arena. His questions about how to make his PC run faster and better made me realize that some people don't know the basics (and if I've left anything out please let me know).
Our PC is more than three years old so I ordered a replacement yesterday. It gets pounded full time and the hard drive is beyond repair. The CD drive was clobbered when Sammy put a floppy disk in it and successfully shut it. It's humming with every start of Adobe. Overworked and tired. Or is that me? Either way, the new PC will be here this week (1 Gig of RAM!) and I took the week off work so we'll both get a rest.