Ah, keeping the ol' showbiz theme going, this week sees us move from North Hollywood to our new location - Monrovia, California a stone's throw away from the historic Route 66.  I can see the San Gabriel mountains through the trees to my left (just - it's overcast today). Great to be so near the mountains!  Nearby is Xerox 'Special Information Services' or something - good to have some IT community nearby.  Absence has made the heart grow fonder - IT pros, can't wack 'em.

Forgot that there's a Monrovia that's the capital of Liberia. Need to get that twin-towns thing going ;-)

Sweet home Monrovia:

The problem:

You're logged on to your website and in the middle of a huge update on text and/or images in a container using your super-friendly CMS system. The phone goes and you end up walking around on your cordless in a very involved in a conversation. During a lull you start making coffee and a snack and head back to your desk. Whoops.. better save those changes before the cookie expires - save changes - prang - the cookie had expired and you're facing a login screen, all the updates lost.

The solution (for the next time):

Ok, so you get back to the computer, after the phone call, with the coffee and snack. It might be too late to click save now so don't...  Instead open a new browser tab (in the same browser e.g. IE or Chrome or whatever) and log on to the site again this will refresh the cookie and voila - you can save in the original tab and not lose anything.

I don't know about all but should generally work with most CMS's

 An interesting short video from WebProNews on the changing face of SEO and the emergence of 'real-time search':

More WebProNews Videos

 Watched a frenetic webinar yesterday about the influence of Facebook. The aim of the session was to induce glassy-eyed, slightly mouth-frothy greed and expectation and then sell a 'course' at which point I tuned out (yeah, like if you're that good at all this marketing you'd be a mere 'course purveyor?' of how to do it).

I love this example of computer graphics used to recreate an old Eastern European lightweight motorbike. Looks like it has just come off the production line but obviously can't have, with no indicators, that old-style switch on the headlamp and pleasing lack of any extraneous 'accessories'...