Whew! Thanks to Dan getting my debugging juices flowing, I got the design issues on my webpage resolved. I had a lot of time to do that today; Thursdays are normally my busiest day but half of my clients weren’t there! I am really looking forward to the switch to VRS though. I’ve notified my company, and the supervisor of the four deaf guys I work with (who forwarded it to her supervisors!), and the liaison between the agency I work at and the company I work for. This is really seeming like a positive change.

Coming soon for Internet Explorer and Firefox is Click2Map, another tool using the Google Maps protocols. They’re still in beta, but soon they will be releasing a stable version. The purpose of the software is to allow you to create your own Google Maps with your own points of interest marked, without having to write any lines of code. I’ve used a similar service in the past, but it was a huge pain to make new markers, and Click2Map is much easier - the user interface is so much more friendly!

A feature I really like about Click2Map is the ability to publish to a webpage. When I was on Diet to Go, I created a custom map (on that other site) that showed all the DC-area pickup locations. This was helpful to me so that if I was going to be somewhere other than my normal pickup location, I could easily spot what the nearest or most accessible pickup location would be. I think other people could have made use of the map I made, but I had no way to share it. On Click2Map, when you create a webpage from your map, you can specify all kinds of options like how big the zoom controls should be, the width and height of the map, and even whether dragging is allowed. They publish the result to their own site, but it looks like there is an option coming in the future for a widget so you can publish to your own site.

There are a couple of features I would like to see added to Click2Map, though I’m not sure if they’re possible using the Google Maps API. First, it would be awesome to get driving directions from one point to another (and possibly on from there, multi-stop directions), and second I’d love to see the ability to publish walking routes like the Gmap Pedometer can create. If they could add those features, this would be the ultimate third party Google Maps application.

Oh dear. Dan said that upgrading to WordPress 2.2 was a snap, so I didn’t bother to make any backups of the site files or the database before I upgraded. It turns out that the King Text widget is not compatible with WP 2.2, and without it my entire site design is hosed. So I’ve rolled back to the default WordPress theme, and I’ve got multiple leads on a fix but nothing concrete yet. What I really want is for the King Text authors to update the plugin - that would solve everything - but people have been commenting on the site for a couple of weeks now with no response, so I’m not too optimistic in that arena. Hopefully I can get everything resolved quickly, but I’m nervous.

• Making Fruit Leather
  How to make the healthy snack that costs so much when you buy it in the store.
  Tags: diet food

Today I took the English and math placement tests at Gallaudet. They said it would take about three hours, but it only took me about one hour. They clearly suggest the longer time because they think native ASL speakers will struggle more with the reading and writing portions, but as a native English speaker I breezed through them. The writing portion consisted of writing a 300-600 word persuasive letter, and I know I did a superb job on that. I am pretty sure I got everything right in the reading section.

• Uniform Freak
  Collection of the uniforms of flight attendants from airlines around the world.
  Tags: fashion retro travel
• Standup desk with treadmill lets workers walk while they work
  A specially designed vertical workstation that allows employees to work at a computer while walking on a treadmill may help workers to lose weight, researchers say.
  Tags: exercise health geeky
• SomeEcards
  Amusing e-cards that there might sometimes be occasion to send. Some are kind of snarky, some are kind of inane, all are kind of funny. [via shinyshiny]
  Tags: funny

Today I got my annual serving of fried Oreos. I get them once a year at our town’s little fair, which is held on Memorial Day weekend. They are terrible, and I’m certain they are bad for you, but I have to get them every year. It’s $4 for six deep-fried cookies. They come covered in powdered sugar, which this year I got all over myself because I was eating them in the car on the way to the movies. Mmm, deep-fried Oreo goodbadness.

• Let’s Cosplay: Crossplay
  Article about male-to-female and female-to-male cosplay, and why one is more accepted than the other.
  Tags: fashion queer
• The Catgirl Research Foundation
  Analysis of the visual appeal of catgirls, drawings of girls who look like or have characteristics of cats. Links and gallery. Not particularly furry focused but you could take it that way, more an animé focus.
  Tags: cats art

I just want to vent about my feet.
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• LOLPRESIDENT!!!1
  I had no idea this Fark thread existed when I created my own lolprez. Damn!
  Tags: funny graphics