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 Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Thanks to Clagnut, I'm observing CSS Naked Day on April 5th.

To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

For the remaining dotText-ers out there who want this to automatically kick-in every April 5th, I just added this condition to DTP.aspx:

<%
// suspend styles on April 5 to observe CSS Naked Day - http://naked.dustindiaz.com/
DateTime dtNaked = DateTime.Today; 
if(!(dtNaked.Month==4 && dtNaked.Day==5)){
%>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/mystyles.css" />
<%
}
%>
4/4/2006 2:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 

 Friday, March 31, 2006

Via Dean Edwards' Links, meet HedgerWow's <SELECT>-Free Layer, a CSS-only workaround for Internet Explorer's SELECT bug with z-index.

It's not quite clear from the demo, but I think the magic is an absolutely-positioned + transparent + huge IFRAME inside the layer to show.  C'est trĂ©s hacky, but it still seems better (in a way) than the usual dynamic hide/show javascript approach.

Here's hoping that Microsoft will quickly windows-update us all with IE7 (which fixes this bug, hoorah), and free us of these sHACKles.

3/31/2006 2:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 

 Tuesday, March 21, 2006

I went to grab the new IE7 beta, and couldn't get past this complete Flash mess:

Yuck! ...It even says "everything you need, nothing you don't" -- very much unlike this Flashturbation.

I'd guess the Flash designer hasn't seen Microsoft's (great) parody of its own bad design habits, The Microsoft Ipod:

3/21/2006 1:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

 Monday, March 20, 2006

In this blog's 1.25yrs alive: It's received 193 legit posts and comments, and 1388 comment spams. (And that's with a basic spam filter in place to catch the obvious 80%!)

It seems like the breeeport experiment might've accelerated it. It didn't seem to affect overall visits tho.

...Man, I gotta finish switching over to dasBlog soon.

3/20/2006 1:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 

 Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Looks like I'm:
  • Participating in Scoble's

    experiment.
  • Syndicating Digg's Programming news here now (in the sidebar).
  • Considering participating in Technet ScriptCenter's Scripting Games event, despite my busy-ness. (Hey, I could be a contender!)
  • Baffled why UC would require its own Alumni (aka "prospective donors" to UC's board) to jump through Stone Age hoops to get a transcript (this is 2006, and phone isn't even an option), and they'll still take "5-10 days" to process it.
  • Downloading various free VMwares at the moment. Oh, and eating cookie dough.
  • Wondering why the machine I've reinstalled at least 12 times in 12 months -- due to strange disk problems, but with different disks -- now appears problem free after switching its filesystem from NTFS to FAT32 (which is supposedly more fragile).
  • Also wondering why the Virtual NT4 Server I spent the last week fighting with just refuses to run IIS4.
  • Avidly tracking shipment of my new little Athlon 64-based machine, due here Tuesday.
  • Chuckling at the recent surplus of general serendipity.
  • Remembering that Tuesday is Valentine's day....
2/14/2006 12:46 AM Eastern Standard Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 

 Friday, February 10, 2006

and so I was sad to see it go away again today:

Y'know, I remember seeing the early web on Lynx, and thinking "oh, like gopher, except harder to use -- what's the point?" Then I saw it on Netscape 1 and everything changed.

(Yes, I actually have a need for NT 4 Server right now. I never thought I'd be installing Option Pack this many years later. At least I've got Virtual PC & Server these days).

2/10/2006 12:23 PM Eastern Standard Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |