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CMS for the Accessible Federal Agency

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Every now and then I’m tasked with an especially interesting assignment at the office. A real “humdinger” of a task that breaks the cycle of normalcy and helps to pad the old resume. By default my job tends to revolve around a few tasks that are repeated throughout the weeks and months: website design, maintenance, [...]

Site transition: Successful!

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I am pleased to inform you that the move from my former web host to my new host, as well as the transition from ASP-driven pages to PHP-driven pages was successful and there was zero downtime. The DNS update was propogated within four hours of the initial update, and thanks to some handy tricks with [...]

The transition begins!

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Mexijew.com will be going down at some point over the next few days while I move it to a new host and switch it over to php. Initially, all of the pages will still be .asp, but I’ve got the .htaccess file configured to read the .asp extension as a php file, thus preserving search [...]

Is it time for Hillary to pack it up?

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As many of my old readers know, and most of the new ones have probably figured out, I am a liberal. A moderate liberal, anyway. I’m not one of those “foam at the mouth” types who go monkey shit crazy for raising taxes and social programs, but I’m definitely more to the left than I [...]

It’s time for a change

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For over five years now, I’ve blogged on Mexijew.com and it’s been a bittersweet experience. I enjoy blogging, and really enjoy all of the great feedback and e-mails I get from people. I haven’t enjoyed the racist e-mails and comments, or the fact that I’m simply not comfortable giving some of my coworkers the link [...]

A Haiku

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Busy week at work Nothing of substance to write Dogs love Snausages. Technorati Tags: Haiku.

Accessibility Trick: The real yet fake yet real <label>

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In my post last week I mentioned that we’ve been spending a lot of time working on Section 508 compliance on my primary contract and today’s post is something of an extension of that. Today I’m going to show you a little trick that I created as a work-around for accessibility testing software that tosses [...]

I have been neglecting you far too long

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Back in the day, just a year ago I think, I used to religiously post a blog here every week. Before that, it was a few times a week. Things changes, life gets busier, and let’s face it – my motivations and attention span aren’t what they used to be. Still, I love this website, [...]

Things I’m not doing

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I assure you that I am not dead, not dying, not ice fishing, not writing the Great American Novel of the 21st Century. I am not hiding, not flashing random strangers, not having promiscuous sex with female rodeo clowns. I am not coating myself in a thin layer of latex, not locked in a round [...]

Cast your vote!

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Newsvine is running a really neat little widget that you can put on your website, that allows your visitors to cast their own votes for whom they are supporting for the 2008 Presidential elections. So, without further adieu, please cast your vote! >Script Removed – Election Over!< Technorati Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Newsvine.