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Make a gross Erap joke, and suddenly the Anonymous Religious Thought Enforcers (ARTE!) are all over you. Fine, fine, I apologize for my tasteless humor, and I deeply regret if any of my posts have brought on the unwanted image of Erap shamelessly sodomizing his overweight son in their luxurious medical detention suite in VMCC.
Now we can all give each other a ginger, manly hug and pop a bottle of strong, manly beer while we beat our chests in righteous, manly self-satisfaction?
I am really disliking AOL today.
When I first installed AOL from one of those ubiquitous free CD-ROM’s, I had assumed that it would just give me a simple dial-up console and some free hours. Little did I know that this was to be one of the most awkward, obnoxious, intrusive software experiences I had ever encountered.
It asked for everything: name, address, phone number, mobile phone number, credit card number, bank and bank account number. Then, it installed itself — and RealPlayer — into my hard disk, littered my desktop with extraneous icons, and copied several unwanted “FREE SOFTWARE!” folders into my root directory. After that, it took my screen name, made the first letter capital against my will, hijacked my CD Player without asking and made itself the default multimedia app, and started up a nightmarish browsing window covered with redundant GUI elements and unsightly ad popups. Periodically, without even the courtesy of a dialog box or a Cancel button, the same browser would suddenly begin downloading updates for itself, reassuring me that this would not be charged to my online time. The control panel gave no way to rectify this dastardly automation.
Today I discovered that their STMP server has not been relaying mail sent from my external client, despite feeding me “Message Sent” confirmations. Almost no one I’ve emailed in the past two weeks has received my messages.
That’s it. This isn’t even worth the free time I’m getting; I’m going to cancel my account and sign up with a cheaper, more reliable ISP. Even Netzero’s free access is better than this.
Pro-Erap PMAP chair and lead rabble-rouser Ronald Lumbao is getting an airconditioned jail cell, ostensibly for his blood pressure. So the guy leads Manila’s urban poor, and hides from the law in provincial nooks and crannies for almost a year; but now he suddenly turns frail and hypertensive in a warm room?
I was thinking that maybe he should join Erap and Jinggoy in the same detention suite, but he may begin to suffer rectal bleeding as well.
I’m happy to announce that Mozilla 1.0 rc 1 now supports the CSS overflow property without a hitch. I *heart* Mozilla, even though my page looks terrible in it. But fear not. Big changes are coming.
In the Beginning was the Command Line. Just posting this link as a reminder to myself to download it later and stick it in my Palm for recreational reading on the run. Belated thanks to Wyclif for this material. For some reason, chatting with him inspires me to good linking.
Britney Spears’ (cigarette) butt. “She is such a well-known person that we want her to continue being a good example of what it is to be a Baptist.” Um, gosh, even before the cigarettes, booze, and Justin Timberlake, she wasn’t a good example. Seeing her in that early schoolgirl uniform should have been enough of a sign back then, right?
Jinggoy says he has rectal bleeding. He shares the jail cell with his father, Erap. One can only imagine what the father-and-son team must be doing in their posh and romantic detention suite to cause Jinggoy’s condition.
Well, as DJ Qualls says in The New Guy about being in jail: “The sex you want, you ain’t gettin’, and the sex you gettin’, you don’t want.”
I’ve been actively using my phone for AIM, but none of my messages has been charged to my prepaid account, so I called Voicestream support to ask about it. The operator’s response: “Prepaid customers aren’t supposed to have AOL access. But I do know they’re conducting some sort of experiment on some of the existing prepaid subscribers. I guess you’re one of the lucky ones.”
So it looks like I can AIM all I want, and I’m not charged for those messages. Yet. (Good thing, too: the BloggerBot is back, so I can post to my mobile blog again. Yay!)
On the downside, I’m charged for making AND receiving calls. Gack.
Mozilla and Netscape 6+ display images as inline elements with a standard line-height — even in pre-sized table cells. That means spacer GIFs and table-sliced graphics may not display the way you want them to. The fix involves using CSS to declare the image as a block element rather than inline, but you’ll find that the hack messes up the layout for IE-users who are used to adding a <br> line break right after the image to avoid unsightly gaps.
The solution is to remove the extra <br>, and declare the image a CSS block-level element with margin-bottom: 0px. This way, excessive space beneath the image baseline is removed in all instances, and all browser engines are happy campers. (Except Netscape 4.x, but that hasn’t been a happy camper since the late 90’s anyway.)
Alternatively, you can also use the style declaration as a class in your linked CSS file, then use the class in your img tag. Or better yet, just stop using table cell hacks for your layouts.
(This is the kind of stuff that grows on you after working all day with six different browsers open on your desktop. What fun.)
“The hardest concept I’ve tried to understand since beginning to use PHP was that of classes.” Yeah, me too. I need this tutorial badly, if I want to get an efficient PHP weblog randomizer up and running here. And this doc is useful too, as I attempt to install Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my laptop.
(Yup, I have a laptop now. It’s a Dell PII-300. Not much, but enough for this humble coder. You can see it in the cam pics. :)