Almost

Almost ready to move to the new site design, just a few back end things to take care of, Comment Preview Page, some of my Info Pop-Ups, etc. have to be finished. Maybe tomorrow night.

Tomorrow during the day is the Master’s Miata Club Tech Day and my project/mod for the day is to make the rear side markers working lights. And I’m feeling ambitious I might go ahead and turn them and the fronts into turn signal repeaters.

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I hate CSS & Mozilla. And IE While I’m At It.

I’ve got the layout of the new front page done, using Plan B. But In Mozilla at random times there appears a 1 pixel line underneath one of the rounded corner blocks. Ugh, like having an ink stain at the bottom of your dress shirt pocket. It is not there in IE!?! IE does wrap the Powered by Movable Type 3.121 to two lines, while Firefox fits it all on one. Oh, well, I’m sure the hate is there because I’m not smart enough to figure out just where I went wrong. It is probably simple too…

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I got rid of the 1 pixel ink stain. Don’t ask me why, but as soon as I removed one of the links and it didn’t matter which one, it was gone. Nine links, good, ten, bad. Wonder if 11 would be ok?
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Loop, FlipFlop & RoundRobin

These are the names of MT Plug-ins I’ve tried to use on the new blog design without much success. I thought Loop was going to do it, but I’m not to much of a programmer, so I didn’t understand it right. I want to apply different background colors to each post. Loop did that, but it also made 4 different copies of all the posts in each color. Ooops. RoundRobin looked like exactly what I wanted, but the instructions were so sketchy that I’m not sure I got it installed right. Then reading the comments on the plug-in at the author’s site it appears that it doesn’t work with version 3 of Movable Type. Siiigh. FlipFlop looks like it will work on every other post. I’ll take that if I can get it. Plan “B” is to have all the posts one color and then I’ll just hard code the different colors on the sidebar.

I’ve still got 29 psi in the right rear tire. Which begs the question, what caused the original 8 psi air loss last week?

Speaking of Plan “B”, Sally, who we visited in DC last week, may have to implement her own alternative plan. She was all set to go to Pristina, Kosovo (formerly part of Yugoslavia), but there appears to be a major stumbling block. If if can’t be surmounted, she will chuck the 3 weeks of learning the Albanian language and start over with another. She has several choices of assignments, but when you are just starting out in the State Department you don’t get a primo spot right up front, so here are the current places where there are openings she could fill:
Windhoek, Namibia
Kathmandu, Nepal
Conakry, Guniea
Khartoum, Sudan
Amman, Jordan
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Where would you pick?

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Guilty

Have you been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, “Surely I can’t look that old?”

I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then??

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate. Hmmm,…or could he???

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School. “Yes. Yes, I did. I’m a Mustang,” he gleamed with pride.

“When did you graduate?” I asked.

He answered, “In 1963. Why do you ask?”

“You were in my class!” I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely. Then, that ugly, old, wrinkled son-of-a-bitch asked, “What did you teach?”

Wasting Time – Big Time

Instead of doing anything constructive this evening I’ve plugging away at those rounded corners. Sorry just couldn’t help myself.

sneak peek

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Woe Is Me

I’ve been reading other blogs. Other blogs with writing of substance, filled with words with flair, unlike here. As is the norm with these blogs they like other blogs of the same ilk. Man I wish I wrote like that.

A couple I visited had these really cool rounded corner things going on. So seeing as I can’t write like that, I can at least look like that, right? Style is better than substance, right?

So I did a little google search for “css rounded corners” and poked into all the links that came back on page one. About a half dozen ways to do basically the same thing and everyone of them was kinda understandable, but they seemed just out of my reach. Not that I couldn’t have figured it out with certainty, but the question came down to, “Is this worth the effort?” Nah. Besides once something so cool becomes easily accessible to yucks like me, it is definitely not cool anymore.

But now I’ve gotten the bug to monkey with the look here, this one is getting tired, after all it has had this look for almost a month now…maybe I should do RetroWeb. All gray mottled background with bright lime green bullets. Maybe I’ll do it in one big table. Maybe frames.

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Party’s Over

Our 5 days off from ends tomorrow when it is back to work. To prevent this no work to work letdown from occurring in the future we have purchased a couple of tickets for the PowerBall lottery for Wednesday.

I took 98 pictures in our 2 days in DC. Quite a few are junk, mostly because I hate the nearly useless flash on the camera, so I hand held a lot of the museum shots and they came out blurry (there are only so many leaning on the railing shots a man can take.) There are a few keepers as well. Ever since the digital camera came into our household there are no more prints, to show, to share, to put in albums. I think I will take the 20-24 best photos and get real prints made from them. How 20th century.

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