http://www.aneclecticmind.com Web site and blog for Maria Langer, freelance writer, commercial helicopter pilot, and serious amateur photographer. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2012/02/10/how-not-to-provide-instructions-to-your-web-developer/ http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2012/02/10/how-not-to-provide-instructions-to-your-web-developer/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:57:00 +0000 Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/?p=7566 Hint: Embedding images in a Microsoft Word file is never a good idea. This should explain why I don't like doing websites for friends. 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One of the biggest challenges to bloggers who allow comments on their blogs -- other than dealing with immature, know-it-all asses who can't write a civil sentence -- is comment spam. Here's some info about what I'm dealing with on this blog. Continue reading →]]> http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/09/12/battling-comment-spam/feed/ 1 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/26/interesting-links-july-26-2011/ http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/26/interesting-links-july-26-2011/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:30:00 +0000 Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/26/interesting-links-july-26-2011/ Continue reading →]]> http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/26/interesting-links-july-26-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/07/a-new-look/ http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/07/a-new-look/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:03:43 +0000 Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/07/a-new-look/ This site was long overdue for a facelift. So yesterday I took the plunge. What do you think of its new look? Continue reading →]]> http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/07/07/a-new-look/feed/ 6 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/05/04/when-computers-reduce-your-productivity/ http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/05/04/when-computers-reduce-your-productivity/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 14:25:47 +0000 Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/05/04/when-computers-reduce-your-productivity/ How many times has something like this happened to you? By now, most of us who participate in social networking -- Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc. -- know firsthand how social networking can absolutely destroy productivity. The rest of us with Internet connections can see how having an email client or Web browser open at our desks can seriously reduce productivity. But have you ever stopped to consider how the computer applications we actually use to get our work done hurt our productivity? For an example of this, I can draw upon something that happened to me last week. Continue reading →]]> http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/05/04/when-computers-reduce-your-productivity/feed/ 0 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/03/06/protecting-my-work/ http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/03/06/protecting-my-work/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:36:33 +0000 Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2011/03/06/protecting-my-work/ Site changes to images, file links, and RSS feeds. Well, I've had enough. Enough of people using my images on their sites or trying to pass them off as their own. Enough of people hot linking to content on my site, forcing me to host images and files for them. Enough of feed scrapers stealing entire blog posts and using them to fill their sites with content. So I've made some changes to this blog. Read about them here. 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