Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.
I just got done watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch and…well…to be honest, I’m not really sure right off the bat just what I thought of this film. I’m going to let it percolate in my brain for a bit — I’ve got to get to bed right now and post more thoughts on it later.
For now, though, I did want to put up the lyrics to one of the songs in the film, “Origin of Love.” Wonderful song, great lyrics.
I did a little bit of dinking around on the site this evening. Nothing really incredible, just playing with some of the styles that I use. Added the green background, made the day division headers stand out a bit more, changed the color of the text for quotes so that there’s a more visible difference between my babble and quoted babble, and rearranged the links a bit.
The wierd thing is, somehow this seems to have borked up the comments boxes a little bit — they now don’t quite fit within the defined window size. I’m not sure why…will experiment a bit to clear that up, though.
Tom was good enough to send me two screenshots of my site that he took on his *nix box. Generally good results, but (sigh) not perfect. In any case, I’ve updated my browser compatibility chart with his submissions.
Thanks Tom!
While I’m sure this matters to absolutely nobody except me, I thought I’d post a quick note to track the changes — I’ve just upgraded Movable Type (the scripts that I use to run and manage my blog) to version 1.4. If anyone reading this is tech-geeky enough to care, here’s a list of the changes in this upgrade. I may be playing with some of these new features in the future….
[Britney Spears] is progressively wearing less and less at an alarming rate. It won’t be long until she’s dancing around bare ass nude at Arena football halftime shows while dousing her naked gyrating body in Pepsi.
— Brian Lawrence, discussing the new Britney Spears movie on the HTF
My friend Kirsten e-mailed me earlier today, and one of the things she mentioned was that my website looks “completely different” on a mac and on a wintel box. This got me a little curious, as I try to make sure that things are fairly compatible across the platforms — with one caveat. As I mentioned in a post last July, I’ve switched my layout from a table-based layout (pros: works [mostly] in all browsers on all platforms; cons: kludgy, browser-intensive to render, and considered poor layout by current web standards). By doing this, I’ve more or less nuked the appearance of my site for older and non-compliant browsers, but I wanted the simplicity of CSS layout for site redesigns and to be able to say that I’ve got a truly compliant site.
However, as I know things can be a little tweaky from browser to browser on the two platforms, I decided to try a little experiment. I set up a link (the one mentioned in my previous post) that uses JavaScript to open a 800×600 window (considered the minimum necessary screen width for designing these days, as so few people run their computers at 640×480 anymore) with no toolbars or anything to get in the way. I then tested my main page under 10 different browsers, 7 on the Mac and 3 on the PC, to see how they appeared. The results (updated on 02.20.02 and 02.27.02) are in the rest of this post… have been deleted, as I didn’t want to bother with re-uploading all of the graphics to the new server. The end result was essentially that Mozilla-based browsers worked great, IE didn’t, and Opera, Omniweb, and iCab had definite issues.
This post is more of an excuse to post this link (assuming it works) so that I can do some work double-checking how my site renders in different browsers at a set window size. Feel free to ignore it.
On a routine shuttlepod mission to investigate an asteroid field, Trip and Reed find themselves suddenly cut off from the Enterprise and become convinced that the mothership has been destroyed. With a limited oxygen supply and almost no chance of being rescued, the opposite-minded twosome must battle their annoyance with one another while also coming to terms with their impending demise.
In short — great episode. 4.5 out of 5.
Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.
— Patty Wentz-Daly
Okay, the new search engine is installed and running. The pages don’t mesh visually with the rest of the site yet, but I’ll get that fixed up some other time — Candice should be over sometime soon, and I wanted to be done with tonight’s ‘geeking out’ before she got here.