Archive For May, 2002

From Scripting.com: The New Ec …

From Scripting.com: The New EconomyWhy I love pop-up adsBeating Bill I post because I will get around to reading everything, eventually. Just like that big stack of books at home. I’m off home. Don’t forget to turn off the light.

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I have a totally table-free te …

I have a totally table-free template done for this blog, I tried it on a test blog and it got screwed up royally. Back to the drawing board and more testing. Still, I learned a lot about CSS positioning, and about the differences between Mozilla and MSIE (it displays properly in Mozilla, no apologies, MSIE [...]

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Good news and bad news!Flor Gr …

Good news and bad news!Flor Griffin are going to replace my camcorder, I’ll call in tomorrow and pick up a new one. Hopefully this one won’t display any artifects. (thanks Mark!)RSI is worse than ever this morning, pain is shooting up my arm. I really need that holiday! The Irish General Election is on today. [...]

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Woo! I used a spreadsheet to d …

Woo! I used a spreadsheet to do something useful for the first time in my life! It wasn’t Excel either, but Open Office, running in Linux. Don’t be too smug though, I have never had or usually have a use for a spreadsheet in my use of computers. No, I’m not going to reveal what [...]

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Damn, I'm on to my third keybo …

Damn, I’m on to my third keyboard in as many years. Water does strange things to them and you can’t just unplug PS/2 keyboards and plug another in. Uptime of 103 days too. *sob*

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Ah! Nostalgia! I'm listening t …

Ah! Nostalgia! I’m listening to a remix of Zig Zag from RKO linked below. This featured on the very first issue of Zzap64 that I and my brother bought. Also check out Zybex linked from the first page above, it’s an excellent horizontal shoot-em-up that I spent hours on!

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If you edit your Blogger site …

If you edit your Blogger site (or any other html) in Mozilla or a browser using the Mozilla engine then you may run into trouble with comments in textareas: Bug 133044 covers this issue and explains why my template screws up when I use Galeon to edit it. It’s also appeared as a problem at [...]

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Bush was warned that Bin Laden …

Bush was warned that Bin Laden was going to hijack planes. I saw this on tv this morning. No doubt this will get a different spin by the end of the day and ‘W’ will come out of it smelling of roses but the evidence is damning.

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There's going to be a cleanup …

There’s going to be a cleanup at RKO. Check the URL for lots of tunes that are going to disappear on June 1st! I found this excellent remix of the Creatures Torture Chamber tune there.UPDATE: He’s getting rid of some excellent tunes!

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Do you run a mainstram website …

Do you run a mainstram website? Check your logfiles. Over the past 2 months Mozilla (aka Netscape 6) has made an appearance on the top 15 browsers list on the site where I work. 1%, 3% and this month so far it’s at 4% this month! Our’s is a non-techie futures site so I presume [...]

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