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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. :)
An Inexact Science. A brief history of browsers, design, and web standards, by Zeldman.
Makulimlim sa labas.
Mukhang uulan nang malakas.
Conversational Terrorism and Logical Fallacies: required reading for the civilized online community participant.
Please note that this is begging the question. People who use the term “beg the question” to mean “the question must be asked,” are getting it embarassingly dead wrong. Thou hast been warned.
Things that have been quite useful to me today:
Few things are funnier than a teacher with a lisp trying to tell the story of Sisyphus.
A year after the May 1 riots, and nothing has changed; only the name, sex, and height of the leader.
“That is the truly dismal spectacle, Ms. Macapagal’s attempts to wean the poor from Estrada by doing an Estrada. In lieu of substance, show biz. In lieu of truth, PR. In lieu of reality, smoke and shadow.” – De Quiros.