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How can I make sure I reach you?

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Today I got four voicemails.

  1. Mom, at about 11 AM.
  2. Dad, some hours later.
  3. Brother, early afternoon.
  4. Mom again.
  5. Some other voicemail I already forgot about.

I usually answer my phone, but today it was off and I wasn’t aware of that. The funny thing was that I spent the whole day online. So, if you want to make sure you contact me, just email me.

Seriously, it doesn’t matter what address you send it to because I check them all like a rabid rodent on speed.

Written by Meitar

December 27th, 2004 at 12:02 am

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My comment’s not on your site. What’s up?

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Sometimes you enter your comment and hit the submit button but your comment doesn’t appear on the site. That’s normal. There is no need to re-post your comment.

The most likely reason it didn’t appear immediately is because it’s been held for moderation, awaiting my approval before it is publicly displayed.

A comment may be held in the moderation queue for several reasons:

  • Your comment contains at least one word from a list of common spam words. Words like prescription, viagra, and others are part of this list.
  • Your comment contains certain potentially offensive expletives or phrases. This is supposed to be a civilized corner of the Web.
  • Your comment contains more than a set number of links. Spammers like to link to their own site for publicity and Google page rank reasons. I don’t want to help them out.
  • Your comment exceeds a certain (albeit really high) number of characters. If you have that much to say, you’ll probably want to use your blog software’s Trackback or Pingback functionality to comment here.

Also, I reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or otherwise screw with your comments so it’s possible I’ve gone mad and decided to explicitly prey upon your (and only your) comments for the duration of this site’s existence. However, I generally won’t do something like that unless you deserve it.

Written by Meitar

November 19th, 2004 at 2:12 pm

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Why does this site look like crap in my browser?

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Either because your browser sucks because you’ve been lazy and haven’t upgraded to a better browser yet, or you have bad artistic taste. I’ve designed this site the way I want to, and I’ve even been nice about making it look the way I intended in the majority of Internet browsers out there (I’m looking at you, IE). That said, I didn’t test the site in old browsers because no one should use them; they’re old, buggy, and inferior in every way to modern GUI browsers.

I suggest that you go get this better browser immediately if you don’t already have it.

For the record, I’m also going to point out that whenever the site design changes, I’m very moody about testing in browsers that I don’t use. This means that if you’re using an obscure browser, or a dead browser, there may be problems with the site that I’ll never know about because they are caused by your browser rather than my code. The major exception, of course, is Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, which I never use but do test in. Even there, however, there may be problems that will take some time to resolve, so as long as things are generally readable, I’m not going to worry about it too much.

As I said previously, you really should be using a better browser by now, anyway.

Written by Meitar

September 30th, 2004 at 10:28 pm

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What’s the Proper Spelling of Bipolar Disorder?

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The words “bipolar” and “disorder” are just words. Sometimes I capitalize them and sometimes I don’t. I haven’t yet found any definitive text which seems to care, so I don’t really care either. Usually, I won’t capitalize them because that means a little less typing for me.

In general, you can consider the following variations of the phrase equally valid in any circumstance:

  • Bipolar Disorder (with initial capitalization).
  • BiPolar Disorder (with camel-case-like capitalization; the “b” and “p” of bipolar are capitalized, as is the “d” of disorder).
  • bipolar disorder (no capitalization)

Written by Meitar

September 30th, 2004 at 10:25 pm

What are hot (or “access”) keys?

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If you’re using a modern browser, then you’ve seen the text “Hot Key:” in links on my site, such as the navigation bar. For instance, the hot key to load this page is 6.

Hot keys are, very simply, keyboard keys you can push to navigate through a site without using a mouse.

  • If you’re on a Macintosh computer, simply press command and a hot key to follow the link associated with the hot key.
  • On a Windows-based computer, press alt plus a hot key to focus on the link, then press enter or return to follow it.

You can find out more about hot keys in my Accessibility Statement (when I write it up).

Written by Meitar

September 30th, 2004 at 10:20 pm

Posted in FAQ, Web Accessibility