Grant sent me some screenshots that made my toes curl. The shots were how this site looked in various Mac browsers. I think that it looked like, well, ass because of the font settings. I’ve gotten rid of all of the Helveticas now – apparently things are a lot nicer for Mac people now. w00t.
we’re there, for nowor, why browsers suck.
Anyways, it’s good enough for now – there’s still some inconstancies between IE and Mozilla right now, but I’ve got to do some real work today (happy, Jon?)
it has been brought to my attention…that this site looks like crap in Internet Exploder. Although part of me doesn’t care, another part of me, strangely, does. So I guess I’ll have to fix it. Grrgh.
still tweakin’I’m still playing around with the design, of course. I’ve gone back to my yellow, green, and light grey colour scheme for now – I liked it on the old site, so I decided to keep it. Oh, BTW, if you’d like to see what my old page looked like for comparison, it’s still here. I’m not sure if I like the menu-on-left look, but I do want to keep the calendar on there, and if there was no menu on the left then I don’t know where I’d put it. Ideas, anyone?
I took a photo yesterday that I was going to use for the top of the page. I work on the 17th floor, so I took a shot out the window of a nearby empty meeting room, looking west. Unfortunately, my new camera is so good that it caught the dirt on the outside of the windowpane, making the photo look brown and ugly 🙁
I’ve still got to write a Perl script to process all of my old entries so that I can put them into the archives in MT. If I don’t have too much work today, I should be able to bang that out pretty quickly.
Of Big Oil, By Big Oil, For Big Oil: The 10 Most Startling Speculations and “Conspiracy Theories” about September 11 and America’s New War. Man, that’s a long title. This is just a great summary on most of the shenanigans that the United States is pulling.
drama in the desertOn Thursday night we went and saw our friends, the Erin Smith Band play in Guelph. It’s cool to have a band as friends, especially when the band is as good as ESB. They played two sets, and while both Sandy and I thought that they took a few songs to get warmed up (hey, it was -15 C outside 🙂 they kicked ass, ESPECIALLY THE SECOND SET which we swear was almost two hours long. They were hypnotising the crowd with some of the solos. The crowd got so into it that they were totally silent during some of the songs, especially Drama in the Desert. I think I would kill anyone for a copy of that song, which will likely be on their next album, which I also can’t wait for. We didn’t get home until 2am, but it was amazing. I felt great afterwards.
Yesterday I had to drive from Guelph to Stouffville to go to the dentist and pick up my nightguard. This is a molded soft plastic thing that you wear at night to prevent you from grinding your teeth together. I didn’t even know that I did this until I met Sandy – sometimes my grinding would wake her up and she’d have to elbow me until I stopped. So I’m glad to get this finally – wearing down your teeth sucks. Then I had to go to the Co-op to set up a server for them, which of course didn’t work. Grrrrrrr. I spent way too much time there. Sandy was mad at me when I came home. I just don’t have the time to spend on them anymore. I’ve gotta realize that. In the evening I had to run a bunch of errands, and then we had a nice night at home.
Today Sandy’s working this afternoon, and I have an HP LaserJet 1100 to clean and try and fix – I hate these bloody printers. HP should have just taken them all back, the bastards – they have a stupid fucking paper path that always causes problems.
Listening to: G Love and Special Sauce – I-76
