Sunday I had a frustrating day - everything seemed to take five times longer to do than it should have, and I don’t really feel anything got accomplished. Move along people… Monday> I clocked up about three and a half…
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Internet, why has thou forsaken me?? I’m in a big dilemma about whether to buy a basic monochrome fax (like a Sharp Fappy - Fax makes it happy) or a Brother MyMio (a colour fax/inkjet/scanner/photocopier that Miwa insists on…
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Saturday was a very good day. In the morning I was rippin’ it up with my kiddies’ classes - they really loved Mr Wolf (although the older, mainly boys class still can’t resist the urge to attack - sigh)….
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Finally! Another Diary entry. It was indeed hectic over the last week - deadlines for my first web project, a job inverview, and the general teaching and wedding stuff. To make matters worse I’ve been unusually irritable, for no…
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I’ve seen my battery life in my Apple Powerbook Pismo drop quite a bit in the three years I’ve had it. I always hoped it was the increasing system and hardware specs yet feared it was the battery’s slow…
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Last year I started to really notice weblogging, and even gave Radio Userland a 1 month spin. I’d been reading Dave Winer’s Scripting News and some other blogs occasionally for a while (a year or two), but hadn’t really…
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Why does using Unicode have to be so hard? I’m trying to use Unicode to make Japanese/English files. However I found that how I save the file makes a big difference to how they’re displayed on my three test browsers…
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As practice using
CSS, I’ve been trying to turn the default Geeklog theme XSilver into a ‘mainly CSS minimally tables’ thing. I’ve been stripping out as many nested tables as possible, changing fonts from fixed to relative, and generally trying…
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I’ve been having a
CSS nightmare day, trying to make an all-CSS layout. The code is clean and validates as
XHTML Strict, and the CSS validates too. It looks perfect on (the browser formerly known as) Chimera and Safari….
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When using Unicode UTF-8 formatted files, be careful of the line breaks. If you use Unicode’s line breaks, the page won’t validate. There are also potential display errors in some browsers (with the line-break character being treated as a <br>…
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Just a brief rundown… Been busy the last week - got two new jobs, including a web design one (!), plus I’m meeting a couple of designers with some freelance potential next week. Things are hotting up! On the down…
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