Archive for February, 2002
The Sucat Towing Syndicate
Parañaque City is notorious for its infamous towing “service.” Basically the towing company (“Red Circle Towing”) tows away “illegally” parked cars without warning, and the hapless motorist is forced to pick up his vehicle at some far-off impounding area — but only after paying a hefty “towing fee.” It’s a giant racket, of course; their [...]
Metatalk on MSBlog
re: “MSBlog.” ;)
TV
I’ve lived wthout TV for almost four years, and I’m glad for it. One day, when I move into a new home, I may not get a TV at all. If I do, it will occupy a minor and non-obtrusive position in the household. Curry tells us that blogs are better than TV. I read [...]
Workarounds.
To handle the problem with CSS box widths and italicized text in IE5, I recommend any one of the following workarou- I mean, uh, measures: – Use a background graphic, rather than box borders. This is the best solution when attempting precise alignment of borders with a title graphic. Yes, I know it eats up [...]
Confucius say…
Recently texted to me: CONFUCIUS SAY: If you are upset with someone, put yourself in his shoes and walk a mile. So when he gets mad, you are a mile away and you will have his shoes.
IE5 italics and CSS. GRRR!!!
One thing I really, REALLY hate about IE5 is that when you have italicized text of more than one line inside a CSS box, the box’s width is expanded by 1px or even more. To compensate, I’m forced to size my CSS boxes down to align with graphics (as with the remade Index 11), and [...]
New Photos
All done. My life in pictures has been filed, scanned, categorized, and uploaded into a neat and scalable little package. That was tiring. Now I have to go send a money order to Richmond, VA, and maybe get a nice Bic Mac on the way.
Travel Journal changes
In addition to the new Photo section, I also redid the Contact page, completely overhauled the Travel Journals, and moved the Travel pictures to their own albums. Check them out and tell me how you like them. (More new photos coming tomorrow. Just one more stack to screen for scanning before I stuff them in [...]
The Infinity Elevator
Digging through all these photos has produced some fruit: my first Mirror Project entry. Now I feel hip and trendy. WHAT?! Microsoft Weblogger?!
TwentyOhTwo
Know what day it is? It’s Paulo Redesigns his Photo Page Day! I’m going to spend the day going through a huge backlog of unfiled pictures, and sticking them into a cute “Japanese Teddy Bear” photo album. As I go along, I’ll scan the ones I like and upload them to the gallery. (Oh, and [...]