One of the running jokes I share with some of my fellow Canadians at work is that we like to say we’re from “Canadia”. After all, if Americans are from America, then from Canada come Canadans, n’est-ce pas? Therefore we must be from Canadia.
I also noticed “we” beat the Fins to advance to the semi-finals in men’s hockey at the Olympics… Go Canadia go!
… some of them are utter morons.
That’s all I have to say about that.
Wrote my first piece of PHP code today to implement the Archives section. PHP is cool—writing CGI scripts in C/C++ (or Perl, if I had known it) was always a big security challenge.
There was a time when I was on the leading-bleeding edge when it came to Web development… Okay, so maybe that time was around 1995. After I did the previous redesign of my home page (in 1997) I kinda let things slide with regards to “Web technology”. I did a bunch of stuff for mathNEWS when I started the site and during the five or so years I was webmaster, but the thing about (mostly) running a bi-weekly ‘zine website (and going to school, etc.) was that it didn’t leave much time for actually improving the site’s technology. In fact, it looks to be pretty much the same way I left it two years ago (plus new content).
The problem with having a heap of eletronic components is you end up with an equally big heap of remote controls. Remote controls that inevitably get lost, albeit temporarily—but always at the most inconvenient moment.
Using a universal remote doesn’t really help either. Sure, it’s convenient, but it never entirely subsumes other remotes… and so it just adds to the heap o’ remotes.
I wish I could just control all my electronics by voice, or thought. Or maybe I should just chain all my remotes to my coffee table… which I still haven’t gotten around to getting.
A UCSD study found that people who sleep less live longer (I know that’s a gross oversimplification). One thing for sure is that you gain more time just by virtue of not spending it sleeping.
Sleep is overrated. Now if only I could keep my eyes open…
“That’s all I have to say about that.”
Or not, such as the case may be. Anyway, here’s an interesting write-up of the holiday’s history, from the History Channel.
Googlewhacks so far:
I was starting to think it was easy but after re-checking the Googlewhacking rules I found out four of my “whacks” didn’t count (one matched a page that was a list of words, the other three had words that weren’t in dictionary.com’s database).
Just tried my hand at “Googlewhacking“. Basically it’s a game or challenge that involves finding a two-word search that turns up exactly one match on Google’s search engine. Harder than you think!
Fixed up some of the style definitions that had been causing the problems I’d noted below with Internet Explorer. Specifically if I set the height property of the div element for the sidebar to “100%” then IE (but not Opera 6 nor Netscape 6.2) doesn’t display the sidebar’s background image. That’s one IE bug; the other bug is that moving the <!DOCTYPE> tag to the second line of the file causes IE not to recognize the document type as HTML 4.01, so it doesn’t apply the stricter compliant layout rules.
Long story short, this website now looks great under Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x, Opera 6.x, Netscape Navigator 6.x, and Lynx. (Okay, I wouldn’t say anything looks “great” under Lynx, but it looks fine.)
I’m not an HTML/CSS purist or snob as I may seem; since I only redesign my web site once every 3-5 years, I just want to get it right.