Removing Locations from Facebook status updates when using your browser is pretty easy. You can clear it out once and it won't come back the next time unless you proactively add it back in. Let's call this an opt-out setting. Thanks, Facebook!

But....who uses a browser to update status? The same feature is not available for my iPhone app, or any mobile app for that matter. According to the Facebook help library, this article describes how to remove location from a specific status update:

http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=297024380340522

I do a significant portion of my shopping at Amazon.com. It's easy, the selection is impressive and with Amazon Prime, I get my purchases fast and more affordably than paying for shipping each time.

Google Analytics has come a long way from days of realizing "It's free so it doesn't do fancy things like click stream analysis" and needing to resort to SiteCatalyst as the best option for doing that. There's a whole lot you can do with Google Analytics if you have advanced programming skills in-house or under contract. For some fine examples and a relatively non-techie-friendly description, consult the Google Code documentation for Google Analytics. Here's a direct (shortened) link to my favorite part, Event Tracking

I recently defected from the Apple bandwagon and purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 as my primary business machine. I started feeling disappointed with Mac OS X with Snow Leopard because of the poor handling of 32/64-bit Java support, which I never did get running efficiently on my MacBook Pro. Don't worry I still have several Macs that I use for other purposes.

I found this post from Nick Malik to be a useful reference to additional information. Thanks, Nick!

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For anyone using Windows Server 2003 (like me) you will likely run into this issue sooner or later. Thankfully, for me it was later since my Windows box is a spare. Ironically, it's for working out kinks like this!

You'll probably find this useful blog post at the top of your SERPs, but I'll pass it along anyway just in case:

FLV 404 Error On Windows 2003 Server
Posted July 26, 2007 at 11:48 AM
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/866-FLV-404-Error-On-Windows-2003-Server.htm

Thanks to Ben Nadel!

I learned yesterday about Google Font API, a public access point into the Google Font Directory, and decided to give it a try on my blog (this very website you are visiting now.) Specifically, I am using Cantarell, not because it's the first on the alphabetical Google Font Directory listing, but because I tried many of the 18 font families available and felt this one best matched the modern, humble styling of my acquia marina Drupal theme.

I've been thinking about how to best tackle some web standards challenges at work this week, particularly around video on Mobile Safari and the much-anticipated HTML5 video support across the industry. So I figured I would take a closer look at web standards compliance on all the browsers I currently use since it's been a while...just for fun. And it was definitely fun, and surprising!

A well-constructed UML Sequence Diagram can be a valuable tool on many levels in the EA process.  A simplified one can act as a process flow diagram with activities mapped against people and systems.  See a real-world example from a colleague.  You can also use sequence diagrams for detailed technical documentation, especially useful to show messaging within an application or between systems.