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Just thought I would mention how handy Firefox’s built in Error Console feature is for debugging - I mostly use this for Javascript, in fact I can;t even remember using it for anything else.

But in any case if you run into the same problems I do with Javascript this is a handy tool for catching the issue at ahnd.

To bring up your Error Console just choose Tools > Error Console from the Firefox top menu.

Then go to the page where you suspect your problem and the console will give you clues.

I have also installed Firebug add-on which looks to have a load of potential for more detailed debugging, but I haven’t really spent enough time on it yet to tell you my thoughts. I will eventually.

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Ever had people gripe because the second line of a list item doesn’t align under the bullet correctly? (This is only a problem in IE by the way - Firefox does the work for you.)

So here is an example of the problem (remember if your not viewing in IE you won;t see anything wrong.) :

Here is how I fixed it, first the code:

<li>Over 50 years of staffing </li>
<li class=”bullet-hidden”><span class=”bullet-visible”>industry knowledge</span></li>

Then the CSS styles:

.bullet-visible {
visibility:visible;
}

.bullet-hidden {
visibility:hidden;
}

If for some reason you can define the style sheets or don;t want ot you can do it directly in the code as follows:

<li>Over 50 years of staffing </li>
<li style=”visibility: hidden;”><span style=” visibility:visible;”>industry knowledge</span></li>

And abracadabra:

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I had been stuck using my work’s web-based email interface for the last 6-months, so when they finally changed servers and I was able to move back to Outlook I was thrilled! It’s just much more organized and I am used to all the handy features as opposed to web-based sites. In fact, the one I was using wouldn’t even let me search in Firefox - so I had to reopen the site in IE every time I needed to search for an old email - ugh.

Anyway, since I was getting this fresh start in Outlook, I decided that I wanted to try something new, something I had only heard of in fairy tales - keep my Inbox empty!

So I have been at it a month and I am proud to say that I only have 34 items in my Inbox at the moment! Not bad for a guy that gets 50-100 a day (another 25 in my Gmail daily) and who has a history of nearly crashing mail servers with the backlog of emails he has amassed. Put it this way - I have over 9,000 emails in my Gmail!

So how am I doing it? Simply put I try to attend to every email as it comes in and then diligently delete the email immediately after taking care of whatever it was about, and then several times a day do a sweep through the Inbox and delete out what is not needed and flag anything that I still need to complete before deleting.

I had used flags before as a way to sort through the 1,000s of emails in my Inbox to see what important things I had missed. It was pretty useful - but now with so few emails in my Inbox it becomes almost a daily task list and keeps me focused on getting the items all done so I can have the pleasure of deleting them!

I will admit that I did have to create a couple folders off to the side that I could stash away things I thought I had better keep long term - and so far I haven’t deleted any of my Sent mails or emptied my Deleted Items folder either! I guess I am still a little nervous about losing something I may have needed - but hey that was not the goal to keep those empty - the goal was to “keep my Inbox empty” and so far so good! In fact since I started typing this post I deleted another email - 33 more to go!

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