One of my favorite new groups over the past year or so is called "Straight No Chaser". They’re a men’s a capella group that got together while attending Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Here’s a video of them performing one of my favorite songs, "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King.
This clip is from their performance in New York City that will be airing in a variety of markets on the local PBS station.
Straight No Chaser also just released their 2nd Christmas album titled "Christmas Cheers".
As I begin thinking more and more about the coming changes to the blogosphere, I begin to wonder if this is really what we need the government and Congress to be worried about in our lives.
I wrote awhile back about the CMP.LY website that allows bloggers to quickly link to an appropriate disclosure statement that describes how they may be connected or influenced to write their posts.
I begin to wonder exactly who these changes are protecting? One person commented on my cmp.ly post about he just wanted to post a link to the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution that says I have free speech and can say whatever I want?
Don’t most people expect that there could be some strings or the potential for a person to have received something at a discount or completely for free that might impact their opinion of a product? Is it also too far-fetched of an idea to think that an individual could still provide an honest opinion of a product regardless of their connections?
Do we really need regulations and government involvement to protect us from people who are potentially no different than some individual standing on a street corner spouting whatever information they wish without retribution or regulation?
I’ve been teaching myself computer stuff for almost two decades now. From computer applications to programming, to web design to any other coding needs. Part of that learning list was teaching myself some CSS.
I recently found the Stylizer application from the folks at Skybound. The Stylizer app allows you to design, manipulate and see the CSS functionality of what you’re working on as you’re working on it in a live display.
What’s interesting is that CSS is one of those things where seeing it for yourself and watching how the coding syntax changes initiates changes in the display you’re looking at in your application.
The ability to use a graphical interface, to build and edit the syntax of CSS (and see the changes as you make them), then to see the impact of those changes in the CSS on your live website is really reinforcing what you’re trying to learn.
There are other great features of Stylizer as well. It creates very nice and clean CSS code. It has a variety of tools to help you with all the great functionality and power of CSS, while keeping things very organized and processed cleanly.