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Posted by Wendel, on Sep 11, 2009

Becoming a candidate in a Canadian federal election

It's almost election season again here in Canada, and as I was an Official Agent for a candidate, I thought I would share my experiences with any potential candidates and Official Agents. I was an Official Agent about 3 or 4 years ago, so some of my recollections may be hazy.

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Posted by Marcus, on Sep 23, 2008

Random CSS Tip #2 - Hiding Text for Google

Have a fancy header image you are using on your page? Rather than just using an img tag to display it, display it as a CSS background to your header tag (<h1>, <h2> ...). This will allow you to still set regular text for search engines to crawl through. Just be sure to set the font-size to 0 and also text-indent to something large like -2000em to satisfy silly Internet Explorer.

This will help you with your search engine optimization (SEO as the cool cats call it), is more semantically correct than using an img tag, and most importantly is great for users who use text readers! Look at that again satsifying sematics and creating a better user experience!

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Posted by Marcus, on Sep 20, 2008

Random CSS Tip #1 - All Caps

The first in a irregular series of short CSS tips.

And now on with tip #1. Make good use the text-transform:uppercase; this will allow you to have your text in all caps for whatever reason, but when there is no style sheet it will be normal captalization.
This is nice for users copying-and-pasting your text, users printing, and for things like your page's description on Google, just to name a few examples.

Remember: it's all about the user experience and semantics!

Post your awesome CSS tips on the comment section!

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Posted by Marcus, on Aug 25, 2008

30 Second Review: Too Human

Too Human as been in the making for ten years starting on the Playstation, than the Gamecube, and than ultimately, where it was finally released, the Xbox 360. The question is did ten years of development make for a good game?

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Posted by Wendel, on Apr 15, 2008

English Butchery

It's a big thing on the internet to point out people's limited grasp of the English language nowadays. It seems like more and more internet users are unable to distinguish between "you're" and "your", and that "a lot" is two words.

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