Like most responsible web developers, I have a whole bunch of web browsers installed on my machine: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Chrome, hell, at one point I had a Windows version of Linx! Now that’s all well and good, but what about different VERSIONS of the same browser. I mean, there is a pretty significant difference between IE6 and IE7, and unfortunately, a large number of the uninformed population still use IE6. Sadly, MS doesn’t make this easy for you since you can only have ONE version of Internet Explorer installed on Windows, right?

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Balancing my professional and personal life has been pretty tricky lately. The work seems never-ending, which is a good thing, right? Well, yes and no. I know there are a whole lot of people out there that are struggling to find just ONE client or just ONE job. In fact, I see these people posting and considering job auction sites like elance.com, undercutting others, and doing the work for a song if they end up getting it at all.

Well, that’s a post for another day. Today’s post is about BALANCE, which I have little of… but I do try, or at least I want to start trying! Right now I’m juggling a full time job that “encourages” me to stay late; a lucrative freelancing gig; an online Ajax class; and time for my wife, friends, and, of course, me. Honestly, I just feel there are not enough hours in the day!

So what am I doing right and what am I doing wrong?

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If  you’re anything like me, you get up early on Saturday morning and go straight to your computer. What? You don’t do that. Oh, well in that case, you probably missed all the excitement this past Saturday. Okay, it’s not very exciting, but interesting at least.

As I was building a new form for a site, I was interrupted by a fellow web developer via Google chat. “Dude,” he said. “Have you seen Google?” Quickly, I pointed my browser Google-bound to see what in heck he was talking about. Turned out, every site had the warning This site may harm your computer.

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