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Tom Everett Scott is without a doubt the best student I've ever had - and ALL credit should go to him, not me. BTW, he could read music because he once played trumpet in grade school. So i wrote everything out - and that is how he got it.

The first part of this Five Simple Steps series is taking some of the points discussed in the preface and putting it to practice.

Typography, as discussed in the introduction to this series, is comprised of many constituent parts, one of which is Typesetting. As already discussed, Typesetting is the composition of a body of text from raw material into a designed presentation. One of the aspects of Typesetting which seems to be lacking in the design profession—and I'm guilty as this as the next designer—is that of a thorough understanding of the written word. A total grasp of punctuation, grammar and structure and when and where to use them.

Today I noticed that Chris Lott was looking for a super-fast way to post to del.icio.us after having posted a link to this bookmarklet on his del.icio.us link page.

The bookmarklet provides the following functionality:

* The ability to type ‘d tag1 tag2 …’ on the location bar to tag a new URL.
* If you select a block of text on the page, that is saved as the extended description. (Borrowed from here)
* The window is automatically closed after the link is posted. (Wanted by the author)

Scott Berkun The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong.

Many Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications use utility classes or libraries that provide some extra functionality not supported by the application code or the J2EE platform APIs. Often these libraries are placed in a Java Archive (JAR) file so that they can be used by multiple applications. These JAR file libraries can be created by the application provider or obtained from a third party. The J2EE platform supports the common use case of an application's using a library that is provided to the application code.

Mark Forster, a time management coach, wrote a pretty well article on getting started on a project. Getting started is the hardest thing on the earth if the project is huge - especially for procrastinators. Mark’s methods involve three steps: Take some action, First thing, Every day.