Asides

Internet Explorer 7 was great. A lot of folks will hate all things Microsoft to their grave, but I have to give them credit where credit is due. IE7 worked, and it worked good. It was finally easy to make “The Big 3″ all render a page in almost exactly the same way. I thought the long struggle was finally over. Then Firefox 3 came out and completely ruined the concept of an auto-cropping <div>.

Microsoft has decided to screw up a good thing as well in an effort to out-muck the folks at Mozilla, or as they would put it “become more standards-compliant”. They have once again changed the way margins, padding and the box-model in general work in IE8 (causing many an animated menuing/accordion script to fail). Fortunately, IE7 isn’t gone, just muzzled. Adding the following meta tag (at the top of the meta section, or IE8 may ignore it) will force IE8 to render the page with IE7:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

It is little more than a band-aid approach, but it works, and in my case buys the time I need to find a real fix for several production sites this issue affected. My thanks to Estelle for her post on this solution.

No Comments »May 7th, 2010, 11:53 hours

The Canon SX200 met it’s demise today. A fall I took on the second day of our trek had it acting up a little, as it hit rock pretty hard from it’s “safe” place attached to my wrist. Between that and the complete lack of dust-resistance in the design it finally gave out. I think I am done with pocket point-and-shoots. I originally picked up the SX200 because I wanted DSLR-like controls, but it has proved too big to carry safely in a pocket and too expensive for something you cannot take apart and clean. The problems I have experienced with the camera would not have been an issue on a professional model where you can detach the lens and clean the unit in the field.

No Comments »April 28th, 2010, 21:06 hours

Looking forward to getting my new sheaths and finally being able to carry my Game Warden (yes, those are mine in the picture )…

No Comments »June 3rd, 2009, 19:39 hours

I just found a neat little Scriptaculous-based slideshow when I was looking for something to replace the Flash-based one in my portfolio. This is the first time in a long time that I’ve gone to install someone’s application and not had to do anything but copy+paste to make it work. In theory, I’m guessing it would probably handle more than just images…

No Comments »May 24th, 2009, 17:47 hours

No Comments »March 8th, 2009, 15:49 hours

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

– Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

No Comments »January 30th, 2009, 13:51 hours

“The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag… the American people will hoist it themselves.”

– Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, November 16, 1956

No Comments »December 1st, 2008, 21:26 hours

“Are you joking?,” Biden asked.

West replied, “No.”

“Is that a real question?”

“That’s a question.”

Story @ Fox

Edit – …and the campaign of censorship begins. Video was removed, changed to another source.

Edit Again – …and the new one is gone again, along with the story at Fox News, LOL!

No Comments »October 27th, 2008, 10:34 hours

The creation of a Thomas Dolby, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads station seems to have finally resulted in a Pandora Radio station that plays something I want to hear 90% of the time.

No Comments »August 25th, 2008, 12:25 hours

There’s a reason he is not going to be president (he pays attention, and has good intentions). They will never allow someone like this to run the “free” world…

No Comments »August 14th, 2008, 17:08 hours