September 15, 2006

Coming Soon

Coming soon to the comments section ...

Working on adapting a few more of the Blacys (which are copyright by NetEase.com). The originals are just huge, so I'm trying to adapt some of my favourites down to 16px high. This is not particularly easy as these are large icons and just beautiful as they are, so I hate the fact that I have to lose some of the detail to get them down so small.

Meanwhile, I'm sick and staying home from work today. Ugh. (I'll get sick of using them in posts soon and go back to content instead of playing around, I promise.)

(Hey, I said soon, not instantaneously.)

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September 14, 2006

Battle Lost

I hardly know what to say. I adored Ann Richards when she was governor of Texas. I was crushed after moving away from Texas for graduate school to learn that some political "newcomer" named Shrub had gotten elected after her term.

I heard today that she passed away after battling cancer of the esophagus. That diagnosis was given just this past March. She's much missed already. She was an incredible, incredible woman.

Some favourite quotes:
"Poor George [George H. W. Bush], he can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."

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September 12, 2006

Bob RAWKS

Bob officially RAWKS my world. He fixed my CSS for me and discovered in all my dinking around with the templates that I had deleted one too many div closings. He got rid of the ugly negative margins AND ...

The 3 column template now works in Safari, IE 6, Firefox (of course) and Opera.

WOOHOO!!!

All hail Bob, who is now king of my CSS world.

BOB RAWKS.

That is all.

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September 8, 2006

Opera, Safari, IE

Still working on the templates.

Safari and Opera users: the right sidebar should be at the frigging bottom of the page if you're on the main page. If you're on an individual article page, it should be in the correct spot.

IE users ... the right sidebar should be in the correct spot on the homepage, but all messed up on the individual pages.

Apparently, I can get the 3 columns to work in either IE or in Opera /Safari ... Firefox appears to love it all.

Bear with me ... I'll get this bloody thing straightened out eventually.

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August 17, 2006

Domain Issues

Yesterday's issues with the blog all have to do with domain switching ... so if you posted a comment yesterday and your DNS happened to serve to to my old host ... your comment is gone if you're now being served by the new host.

I believe, however, that the new host has everything up and running now and I think I've switched all DNS service over to Dreamhost ... so hopefully everyone will be getting the new server.

If you emailed me yesterday or the day before and got a bounce message, likely you got caught in a DNS issue of some sort or another.

Interesting content coming soon ... blabbing about host stuff over soon (unless there's a major issue).

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August 16, 2006

Hosts Changed

I believe I've finally switched everything from my old host, Infinology, to Dreamhost. I gave up on Infinology because the servers just seemed to be going down at random and I never got responses to my support tickets anymore. Too bad as they were a wonderful company when I first signed on with them.

So, between switching around my CSS and switching hosts, let me know if you see anything totally messed up. (Except of course, if you're using Safari or Opera and don't see the right sidebar ... I know that's still screwed up.)

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