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When graduating from Boise State, I was offered a position as an independent contractor to continue managing the Boise State Alumni Association's website. At that time, I decided to go into business for myself (more of a sideline than anything else) and spent hours and hours looking for a name with the following requirements:

• A name that fits my personality
• A name that is available as a URL

When I was trying to setup Parallels in openSuse 10.3, the install instructions that are found in the PDF file are incomplete. Through various online sources, I found that a couple of additional packages are needed (downloadable through YAST) to complete the install. Here is the process I went through to get it running:

1. Downloaded the most current RPM package directly from Parallels
2. Installed the RPM package
3. Opened YAST Software Manager

One of the best ways to keep up to date on technology is by listening to podcasts. When it comes to the pulse of Drupal, the Lullabot podcasts fall squarely in this category. However, I seem to have a little bit of a podcast addiction and subscribe to over 30 different ones and have some trouble listening to all that content.

My Solution: Speed up the audio!

After an eye-opening (no pun intended!) training session on Section 508 web site accessibility and the pitfalls of modern web design, a decision was made at my day job to place skip nav links (an anchor that is first in the tab order that jumps the user down to the main page content bypassing navigation elements) on all of our websites. Naturally, I Googled skip nav to try and find the best way to handle this and found two common schools of thought: