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Check out this website DTV Indiana . Info - Indianapolis Overview.

The site is a little rough, but you can see the before and after maps for the DTV transition. It will let you see what will and will not be covered when the transition completes.

Yes, we will have WTTK the CW (my wife’s favorite), but not until August 17th, 2009

At church we are in the process of changing our church website and newsletter system to better communicate with new/prospective attenders and along with regular attenders/members.

As part of this we are likely going to implement a PHPList based weekly email newsletter. As part of the planning process for this upgrade I started exploring templates for use in PHPList. I quickly found a bigger challenge than I expected. Check out the link below and take a look at the chart across different mail clients.

Guide to CSS support in email clients 2008 - Articles & Tips - Campaign Monitor.

The list is crazy look at all the client/operating system combinations. This is my first time down this path, but even testing is challenging. For web based html you have a relatively limited number of mainstream browser/OS combination. Normally, the testing can be isolated to 2 or 3 main browsers and just a couple of operating systems. Even then there are several services that allow you to see how your website renders in a large number of different combination’s; my favorite being Browser Shots.

If you see a service like browershots for email message templates or have suggestions of tools, tips, or services please let me know.

If you have already lost your mind I dont think coffee will help, but according to a recent study drinking more than 5 cups of coffee per day may help prevent dementia. Check out the article here.

It also mentions that “previous studies have shown that coffee drinking may also be linked to a reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease.”

For all the coffee drinkers out there (including me) drink up. That is until the next study says coffee is bad for our heart, brain, skin, or maybe just our wallets.

I post content to a couple of different websites and many times people provide the original content in a MS Word document. Nothing wrong with this, but it can be a little bit of a hassle to convert the Word document to html in a clean way.

You can’t paste the document directly into the WSYIWIG editor or you will get really funky formatting and MS Word HTML is what you might call “interestingly dysfunctional”. So normally I hand code the documents in notepad or UltraEdit. This works well, but can be very time consuming.

So after looking at a couple commercial services/software that claim to do the trick, I found this website word2cleanhtml.com. It does exactly what the title implies and does a pretty good job. You simply copy your word document onto the site and hit the convert to clean html button. You may need to clean up a few tags, but generally the code is clean, properly formatted, and ready to go. It can save you a few minutes and help keep your frustration down to a reasonable level!