How do you pronounce URL? I have always said “yew-are-ell” but I just heard someone say “earl”. Did a quick search online and found the following:

AltaVista shows 821 pages containing the pun “Duke of URL” — some referring to computer programs with that name — so there are definitely people who say “an URL.”

OneLook Dictionaries, a Web site that allows searching of hundreds of Web-based dictionaries, has conducted a series of surveys on the pronunciation of Internet terms, including FAQ and URL. See http://www.onelook.com/ survey_results.shtml for the results.

Unfortunately, the pronunciations are given only as sound files, with no attempt at phonetic spelling, so those without sound cards can’t tell which pronunciation is number 1 and which is number 2. For what it’s worth, the URL survey found that “you-are-ell” was preferred over “earl” by 34 to 5 (with another 3 voting for “yurl”). For FAQ, there were 146 votes for “fack” and 72 for “eff-ay-que.”

- http://www.eeicom.com/eye/utw/98apr.html

Do you mind if Evan comes over first thing Monday morning and reimages your machine?

The franklin university slogan used to be something along those lines. the idea is that it’s a school for working adults that focuses on practical knowledge.
Last night in my project management class, we were speaking about communication plans. The professor has a wonderful chart he likes to show in the best method of communication based on the communication goal. I am a technical person and don’t often get to have direct customer contact, however, an issue recently came up that intrigued me, and I asked if I could contact the individual directly.
I had initially planned to email him to have a record of what we discussed. Then I went to class, and we discussed the merits of a telephone conversation to a) convey detailed information b) assess commitment c)mediate conflict so I decided to call (in part to to show our dedication to responding to his concern) and then follow up with email.

As it turned out, the call went well. He was very open and easy-going: the call went very differently than I had been anticipating. My initial email draft had been quite formal and apologetic, but when I spoke with him, the conversation took on an entirely different tone. I was very glad I had picked up the phone and engaged him in the dialogue rather than simply sending something off into cyberspace.

I just heard about http://web.archive.org. Images aren’t all there, but there are captures of pages on the web. It was a bit of a thrill to see the reincarnations www.afhill.com has gone through over the years. I was pleasantly surprised to see a link to “Accessibility” off the first version of the page, back in 2000 (sadly, the content of that page was never spidered).

2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20001019033353/www.afhill.com/portfolio.html
2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020925233039/http://www.afhill.com/
2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20021126213612/http://www.afhill.com/ (a brief stint with content management)
2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030805195515/http://afhill.com/ (a return to a look closer to the 2002 design, for a course at franklin. sadly, the site hasn’t changed much since then!)

edit: I had forgotten that www.afhill.com wasn’t my first website that bore my name. I found the oh so endearing “http://andrea.hills.org” I pulled together back in 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19991001063408/http://andrea.hills.org/ (evidently I knew about alt text, but not checking for typos)

From jagged’s profile page (2001):
Andrea Hill (Web Director) has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French/Spanish and is a self-described web geek, who spends hours on the web looking for cool sites, adrenaline-fueled design and free downloads. She bypassed those fly-by-night programming schools that promise jobs with big money and instant gratification and taught herself HTML and all that other fun web stuff.
(http://web.archive.org/web/20001017092947/www.jaggedmag.com/we_are_jagged.html)

From youthone (2001):
Andrea Hill - andrea@youthone.com
Webmaster
To balance out our Youth One syndicate, Andrea brings in four years of technical geekdom. Beware. Hill, a.k.a. the Mastermind, is not your average computer nerd. Although her dream is to be a castaway on one of the Cayman Islands with her top-of-the-line powerbook, she never ceases to amaze us at how well she functions in a real life environment. It must be her colorful personality combined with a cynical sense of humour and a passion for adventure sports that make Andrea stand out from the rest of the dysfunctional computer techies…
(http://web.archive.org/web/20010412120536/www.youthone.com/collaboration/Collaboration_Details.cfm?ID=107&p_Section=Y1)