Archive for August, 2006
Windows generally sucks at guessing how long it will take to move a file, but today I was extracting the files in a .GZ and OSX told me I would be waiting over 2 billion hours. Fortunately, it was apparently confusing “billion hours” with “seconds” so all is well.
I’ve noticed a number of people [...]
According to Guardian Unlimited, NASA has “misplaced” the recordings of the moon landing. The tapes are of a much higher quality than what was broadcast on TV those decades ago and NASA appears confident that the recordings are around somewhere… At least it isn’t another batch of VA records that was misplaced… this time…
It’s interesting to see what kinds of search queries land visitors on your page when your blog doesn’t have any specific point. I noticed a few people looking for info about the winword.exe process, which I posted a trivial line or two about a few days back. Since I’m a nice guy, here’s [...]
I’ve been playing around a bit with different designs and found a difference in the way browsers interpret CSS/XHTML specs. I was putting a background picture on the bottom right of the page I was working on using styles (background: #ffffff url(images/bottom-right.jpg) no-repeat bottom right;) and in Internet Explorer 6 and Safari the picture [...]
I did a blog entry about markup validation plugins a little while back including the Safari Tidy plugin, which displays the webpage warnings/errors against validation in the bottom right corner of the browsers dynamically, so that each time you go to a new page, the information is updated. This is extremely valuable to web [...]
