Category: Technology

Let me just get this off my chest.

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

Okay, I feel better.

(damn clients…)

Straight from my sister’s phone to your browser:

 

Happiness is NOT the following:

Spending all day trying to track down a CSS error, only to realize your page isn’t rendering correctly in NS6 because of the following character: _

Isn’t this always the way, my internet coding brothers and sisters? Can I get an amen? How come out of all the pages and pages and pages of CSS Web sites that I visited today didn’t one person decide to put at the top of the page (in an H1 tag of course): Hey, idiots! Only use alphanumeric characters in your .css files!

I want my day back.

Know it, love it:

In CSS2, identifiers (including element names, classes, and IDs in selectors) can contain only the characters [A-Za-z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters 161 and higher, plus the hyphen (-); they cannot start with a hyphen or a digit.

I came across an interesting site today: upcoming.org. Basically, you sign up, enter some events you’re planning to attend and “as Upcoming.org learns more about the events you enjoy, it will suggest new events you never would have heard about.” Sounds kinda like a Friendster type thing. Could be cool. I signed up. You should too.

While not as hysterical (or frankly, pornographic) as Scotty’s, here are some recent search terms that led people to themuy (my comments in parentheses). The last one is my favorite.

• condiment war
• charlie ravioli
• the dude abides
• attacks women ambergris caye resort (wtf?)
• life savers commercial song
• never mess with a sicilian when death is on the line.
• jeff mangum
• bardeen s or vow or sporadic or hippy or perfected (my new mantra)
• milosevic picture
• richard mulligan (all hail Bert from Soap)
• john hancock sucks
• pictures of your pussy (well, okay, that one’s pornographic)
• yours is a very bad hotel letter
• ashcroft sings
• weird drummers

As I was searching the php.net website for some useful funtions, I came across this bit of advice and thought I’d share it with you:

Think of list() as if it was a function building and returning a non-associative positional array of variable references from its arguments, the latter arguments being prototyped as reference arguments. The returned array is then returned by list() also as a reference instead of as a value (as with classic scalar functions)

The fact that I pretty much understood that paragraph scared me.

Well, I’ve finally made the switch. No more Internet Explorer as my default browser. From now on, it’s Mozilla Firebird for me.

Besides having a cool/retro-70’s/muscle car sounding name, Firebird also sports these features (standard):

1. Tabbed browsing (of course)
2. Pop-up killer
3. Advanced bookmark features
4. Automatic image resizing
5. Middle click to open a link in a new tab
6. and more…

But here is the real killer reason I switched: Extensions. These are cool browser add-ons that allow your surfing experience to be way easier. Here are a couple of extensions I’ve installed:

• Tabbrowser Extensions This adds mucho functionality to the tabbed browsing experience. Now when I click on a web link in an Outlook email, it doesn’t open a new link in my open browser (losing the page I was previously reading) it just opens it in a new tab. Very cool.
• SearchThis If I highlight text on a web page and right-click, I can search for that word on: Dictionary.com, IMDB.com or Amazon.com
• Web Developer 0.3 This is the single coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. This adds a toolbar to Firebird with tools for debugging and laying out web pages. I can instantly turn off Java, Javascript, or CSS, turn on/off images, outline all table cells or block level elements, open up all style sheets in a separate tab, validate any aspect of the web page through the W3C validator, resize the browser to common screen resolutions and many many other things. This is going to save me a lot of time.

I highly recommend this browser. I didn’t realize how stuck in the past IE was until using Mozilla Firebird. I’ll never go back. Happy surfing.

This is such a cool idea. High school students in Mississippi are learning how to build computers from scratch and then those computers are used in classrooms all over the state. According to the article, “By Dec. 31, every classroom in the state will have an Internet-accessible computer.” When that happens, Mississippi will be the first state who can claim that distinction.

I really hope this idea spreads.

What’s the difference between the words technological and technical? I am too lazy to look them up in a dictionary.

That is all.