• We Sold Frodo

    We sold our little pug Frodo after deciding it wasn’t fair to him to be locked up in his cage 8-12 hours a day. The poor pup had no stability because Beck was taking him back and forth between here and Lexington, so proper paper training was not possible.

    Beck cried so hard when we took him to the pet store  to be sold. She kept saying, "He looks so little," after they put him in the display case. She was right: He did. He was ok with it, I think, because he immediately started rooting around in the shredded newpaper and throwing it in the air.

    The lady at the pet store called the next day to say that he had been sold. The people who bought him weren’t even in there to get a dog, but the little guy charmed his way into their hearts by pawing at the glass and hopping up and down. The lady knew the people and said they were well off with a big house and fenced in yard. So, Frodo has literally moved on to greener pastures. He has probably forgotten us, but we will never forget him.

  • A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words

    I don’t think I’ve ever added a post about it, but if you haven’t checked out the Pictures section in awhile, you should head on over to the Gallery. There are pictures of the wedding, the rehearsal, and other stuff. I have a bunch more pictures to add, but since I still have dial-up, getting them posted has proven very difficult. Maybe someday… :)

  • Frodo: The World’s Greatest Pug

    Believe it or not, I actually have a little house dog now. He’s an adorable little pug named Frodo. We’re working on paper training him right now, but in between cleaning up his messes, he’s actually pretty cute.

    Frodo the Wonder Pug mugs for the camera Frodo the Wonder Pug poses Frodo the Wonder Pug takes a nap

  • How to remove the extra HTML code from your Microsoft Word documents that are saved as a webpage

    Microsoft Word is notorious for inserting a massive amount of non-standard, useless HTML markup in pages when you "Save as a Webpage…" Not only does this extra markup violate all validation and kill page load times, but it also makes editing pages by hand nearly impossible.

    Thankfully, Microsoft added a little know feature into Word XP or later that allows you to omit much of the bloated code when you save as a webpage. Simply click File | Save As…, then click the Save As Type drop-down box and choose Web Page, Filtered.

    Microsoft Word XP Save as Webpage, Filtered screenshot
    Microsoft Office XP Save As…Web Page, Filtered screenshot

    While this doesn’t create perfect code, it does cut down of filesize considerably, according to my simple test. I opened a two page Word document with text, font formatting, tabs, bulleted lists, and numbered lists. The filtered document was only 5KB, while the normal Save as a Web Page document was 12KB. Looking at the generated HTML in notepad, it’s easy to see why. The header of the non-filtered page had 40 lines of useless XML content. Also, the bulleted lists were extremely bloated in the non-filtered page. It’s probably safe to say those size difference ratios wouldn’t hold true for longer documents since much of the bloat in the test documents was a result of the HEAD content, however, the general markup was much more terse in the filtered version.

    From now on, when I want to quickly publish a Word document, I will definately choose Save As…Web Page, Filtered.

  • The Many Faces of Microsoft’s Clippy

    If you have ever hated the Microsoft Office helper known as Clippy (the paperclip that pops up in the corner), I’m sure you will love this.  Warning: This parody contains some explicit language. If you are offended by this, simply don’t click the link ;)

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