October 30, 2006
Actually, I don't think Blingo has much to worry about in this case. Winning a prize from Kevin Federline by conducting web searches doesn't exactly get my pants tight.
As a side comment, it looks like he drinks the weakest straight whiskey I've ever seen. He also apparently sucks at poker and forgets to remove the jokers from the deck. Stop trying so hard. I'm officially transferring the crown of the kingdom of Kevinsucksylvania. Sorry friends.
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October 25, 2006
Apparently, in an unsurprising display of ignorance, Rush decides to try and claim Michael J. Fox is faking his Parkinson's.
This man may possibly be the biggest douchebag alive. I would try and speculate on what his next stunt will be, but it would probably be incredibly offensive.
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October 24, 2006
It is confirmed. Hop on over to Get Firefox to snag it. I've only been using it for a few minutes but I have to note that it's significantly faster than 1.5x versions (referring to the OSX versions) and the features already found in the release candidates are still there and work nicely. I checked my processes in Terminal and the memory usage so far is only hovering around 5MB. This is a significant improvement because it was always a RAM hog before. It's still leaps and bounds better than IE 7, even in light of the significant updates and fixes Microsoft made to it.
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October 24, 2006
I'm not entirely sure quite how funny this could be. It almost seems too perfect, but scary at the same time. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm often bugged by the yuppies who roll around with a phone permanently attached to the side of their face. This includes while driving and also when trying to carry on a conversation with someone other than the person on the opposite end of the line. One of my favorites is the random "Hi!" as they pass you on the street and you reply only to realize they're talking way too loud over the phone instead of at you.
I admit, of course, that I too have a cell phone. However, I tend to have a bit of restraint in how much I use it. I only use it as much as I do because I don't have a land line. Anyway, to get to the point, looks like Heavy mobile phone use lowers sperm count.
Sadly, the article didn't make any notes about the possibility of being infertile due to the owning of a sticker covered car powered by neon lights, stabilized by an airplane wing on the back, and that runs on an RC car motor. It didn't mention 30" spinning chrome rims either =[.
p.s. Firefox 2.0 supposedly will be released today. That or the latest release candidate. Keep an eye out.
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October 20, 2006
I know there's plenty of articles like this floating around, but I want to throw my opinion weight around anyway. Here's a basic rundown for anyone who doesn't know just yet.
- The PS3 will cost around 600 U.S. dollars.
- There will only be ~500,000 units available at launch in the States/North America (compared to the ~11 million+ Wii systems). Many of those being snaked away by pre-orders to be re-sold for profit.
- The two major franchises Sony is depending on to make sales, don't appear to be launch titles.
According to the BBC, part of Sony's strategy will be to offer free chat and text messaging in order to entice more sales. El oh el? Who's going to drop 600 bucks to chat online with other people who don't have a concept of smart spending? I cross checked the BBC's launch title list with Sony's own official Playstation website to confirm that indeed, Metal Gear and Final Fantasy are not on the list of launch titles. Beyond that, most of the games being offered already exist or will exist on less expensive competing systems. Exceptions being: Resistance: Fall of Manâ¢, NBA 07, Genji: Days of the Bladeâ¢, and possibly more.
The full list is as follows:
- Resistance: Fall of Man
- NBA 07
- Genji: Days of the Blade
- Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII
- Call of Duty 3
- Fight Night Round 3
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- F.E.A.R
- Full Auto 2: Battlelines
- Madden NFL 07
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
- NBA 2K7
- Need For Speed Carbon
- NHL 2K7
- Ridge Racer 7
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
- Tony Hawk's Project
- Untold Legends Dark Kingdom
Back to their 'enticing' PS3 network offerings, extra content will cost upwards of 15 dollars. The average on other systems, which have a lower base cost to begin with, average 5-10 dollars.
I suppose this leaves the PS3 with the advantage of also being a Blu-ray player. Hooray? Considering Sony's track record of attempts at being a leader in standardized media, that's not a terribly exciting feature. Remember Betamax, Sony memory sticks, PSP media? Yeah...
I'm thinking maybe I'll drop 250 bucks on a Wii and play mostly the same games, with the same graphics, in a more creative fashion, and download their online content for 5 bucks a pop. Or maybe I'll continue hanging out at my friends' place and play on their 360 that also magically supports 1080i resolution. I know I most certainly won't be trying to see how big of a hole I can make in my bank account in order to watch Blu-ray formatted movies and watch the latest Final Fantasy cutscene when that gets released. That is, if I could even find a PS3 in this country to begin with.
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October 19, 2006
Note: This was originally a writeup I did for work, so some of the context won't apply.
I've been going through the list of fixes and additions to IE7. It's of course not an ideal thing to have to support but it's getting better and will make a lot of things at least a little easier along with adding support for CSS features I've wished I could have used on our sites for a long time.
+++Common bugs I've encountered that are now fixed+++
-Sometimes various elements of a site would not be visible, but after scrolling down the page and back up they appear. This didn't happen often but I had it happen from time to time and it was not fixable.
-When any content grows wider than its container when floated, the container pops down below the element(s) floating next to it. This often showed up when a client pasted in a long url instead of making a link or when using italics (another bug explained next). Generally I could fix this by exploiting IE's custom word-wrap rules, or I would have to deviate from the pixel-perfect layout to size things to fit without breaking in IE.
-Italics! I think I've had more dev fixes related to this than anything else. In IE6, italics are rendered with an inherent width of some kind. Generally, between 2-10 pixels of width is what I've found would be tagged on these elements on our own blogs. Because of this, whenever a client put something in italics the content would become wider than its container and blow out the layout. Once again I'd have to deviate from the layout slightly to accomodate the extra needed space. Sometimes I could fake it out by giving < em > and < i > tags left and right padding of 1 or 2 pixels and a relative positioning. I don't know why it worked, but it did. It wasn't as reliable a fix as just changing the content container's width though.
-Auto width. In absolutely positioned elements, IE would fail to maintain a block element's full width. Normally, the width should expand to be the same as its container. This fix also includes setting width to auto in the stylesheet, which on various things failed to work at all.
-Positioning and z-index? Supposedly there are some various fixes to how elements are rendered regarding their position setting. I don't know details yet and haven't explored enough of this on our owns sites yet. I've been developing with these bugs in mind for so long that I all I know is it probably doesn't change anything on existing sites just yet, but in future sites I may have less issue with extended dev time stemming from layout bugs in IE.
-Borders! I've been faking dotted borders in our sites using background images for a long time, because in IE 6 they render as dashes instead of dots. With this issue resolved, things become a little easier.
+++Features that I wanted to be added years ago but at least are an option now+++
-Hover hover hover. In IE 6 and back, you were limited to only applying styles to the hover state on anchor tags and I think it supported paragraph tags as well. Now I can apply styles to absolutely any element's hover (mouse over) state. Greater interactivity and flexibility can be built into our blogs, including really easy drop down menus and more. I've done drop down menus on our sites before but it always required adding in a big chunk of javascript to make it work in IE.
-Min/max height/width support added. This is a huuuuuuugely useful thing in layout design that I could never use before. Being able to prevent our content/layout from being shorter than a certain amount etc is very handy. This is something that can allow even more freedom in creativity with our layouts.
-PNG alpha support :D. That strangely omniscient angelic chorus sound effect played when I saw this. IE couldn't display PNG transparency without extra work before, but now it's built in. I've had to get really archaic with my creativity on some sites with regards to how I slice up some graphics (*name removed* and *name removed* come to mind) due to not being able to utilize a PNG. This is yet another change that can really make designs more flexible and achievable for us.
+++Final notes+++
This is by no means great praise for IE 7. These fixes and features have existed in Firefox/Opera/Safari/etc for years but I was never able to take advantage because I had to simultaneously support IE due to its majority market share. I also didn't want to implement hacks to make some of these things work because any fixes made to them in future versions (like now) could cause those sites to stop displaying properly.
I also can't get too excited because IE 6 will likely have a stranglehold over the market for a good amount of time into the future just like IE 5.5 did when 6 was released. Here's hoping that it being pushed out through automatic updates mitigates this a bit. However, for any blindly diehard IE users that exist among our client base, the new release shouldn't be too hard to push onto them and we can start making our blogs more interactive, creative, and flexible without having to worry so much about cross-browser support.
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October 18, 2006
My previous host sucked, to the point where I couldn't manage to upgrade my backend or adjust anything else really because uploading more than 1 file at a time caused the server to crash. It didn't used to be so bad, but it sure is now. My previous entries are gone at the moment, but oh well. Here's to a new beginning.
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