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!
MT Upgrade
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….
Palindromania
Need a cheap excuse to party? At 8:02pm tonight, if you use military time, it will be 20:02 20/02 2002. This won’t happen again until Dec. 12, 2112 at 12:12pm — and won’t happen again after that.
But I’ll be sure to put a post up here to remind you all then.
Seven things
Wil has a wonderful post up on his site where he suggests making a list of 7 things we’re thankful for. The comments for the thread have a ton of these lists from the various people reading Wil’s site — the following is what I posted.
Well, I’m a little late to the party, but that’s okay. Fashionably late is cool, right? :)
7 things I’m thankful for…in no particular order…
- Waking up a little late to predictions of clouds and rain…then making it to work on time and watching the clouds blow by and blue skies and sunshine lighting up downtown Seattle.
- The fact that I’m finally actually living in Seattle rather than Anchorage, Alaska.
- Growing up in Anchorage. I had all sorts of goofball experiences and made wonderful friends that I wouldn’t have otherwise.
- Having three weddings to go to within the next two years — James and Stacy this June, Casey and Jenny this July, and my brother Kevin and Emily next year sometime.
- Old friends that were here when I moved down, new friends that I’ve been making since I moved down, and a girlfriend that’s kind of a bizarre combination of both of those, in a wierd sort of way.
- Movies, music, books, and ‘puters — four things that, both collectively and individually, I spend way too much money on. But that’s the point of having the money there in the first place, right?
- Life. Just being here. Seeing each day pass by, with all of the good and bad things that happen. Knowing that no matter how bad things seem to be at any given point, there are always more days coming along that can — and will — hold wonders just as amazing as whatever may be getting me down.
It’s an incredible world we live in, and it’d be a pity not to step back, look around, and actually see some of the things we tend to take for granted. Thanks for this list suggestion, Wil, and thanks to for everyone who’s contributing (maybe that’s number 8 on my list?).
Cool beans.
Unamerican
I found this at Unamerican. Very cool site.
Okay, I’ve spent some more time bouncing around the site, and I really don’t want to say nothing except ‘very cool site’ — that’d be doing it such a disservice. I haven’t even done much more than skim over most of the site — there’s a ton of stuff to read — but I’ve gone over the catalog of shirts and stickers, and I want to order one of each of the shirts, and about five of each of the stickers. Seriously. I could think of so many places to put so many of these stickers. They’re great.
So head over there, check it out. Buy me stuff. :D Buy yourself stuff. Or just look and get a giggle at some of the stuff there. It’s cool.
There’s also some very interesting — and very frightening — stuff to be found in the links from the site. Such as this column on ‘Homeland Security’ checkpoints being set up. I haven’t been as paranoid as some people I’ve met…but stuff like this really makes me wonder.
Britney Spears
[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
Air Force gets ray guns
Dad might find this interesting — it seems the USAF is going to be adding a laser weapon to his old airplane, the “Spectre” AC-130 gunship. My sci-fi toys are catching up to dad’s Air Force years…kinda cool and kinda scary at the same time.
You suck.
I put your post into Babelfish’s Elitist-to-English translator, and all I came back with was: ‘You suck.’
— Hiro_Protagonist, in the midst of a debate about body piercing.
Cross-platform compatibility…ugh
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.
Just testing something
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.