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Another year almost over, quiet day around here as usual. Almost burnt the pizza while watching the Plays of the Year on the news, the seagulls will eat the outside crusts tomorrow morning when it’s light. Brother John managed to make it through on the phone and say hi, had to try a few times as the old cell I’m on doesn’t have a signal much of the time when I’m in the basement, but he persisted and made it. An afternoon nap, some TV, and that’s a wrap.
After much back and forth, Motor City Bad Kitty sounds like she is really about to give up blogging after finding out senior citizens do it too. “It’s too easy to sit in your own cave and let the world go by, eh?” said Ray Sutton, the 73-year-old Oldest Living Blogger and a retired electrician who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. “It keeps the old head working a little bit so you’re not just sitting there gawking at TV.” Geez, the guy is only 73 years old - there isn’t a blogger out there that’s older? Thankfully further down the article is another Ray, he’s a 92-year-old retired Tennessee poultry and egg farmer blogging for Dad’s Tomato Garden Journal, and it’s complete with pictures, recipes, and news. And if you look around, there’s even someone with links to Grandma’s blog at 90 years old.
There’s a lot to be said for not taking advantage of browser inefficiencies or bug-mess to produce a web site layout and I for one am glad to have resisted the urge. Mind you, it’s only in the past year or so starting with my own site that I went all CSS for layout myself. There were a couple compromises of course, IE browsers less than version 5.5 get a fairly borked layout, but the percentage of old Mac users stuck with IE5.1 that visit my site is about zero, and anyone using Windows that isn’t on version 6 of Internet Explorer just likes playing with fire and I can’t help them other than to say to upgrade.
Reading the linked articles above, you will hear from people that have used the CSS hacks and are now wondering about the wisdom of their ways. This fall, moi tried out something that I had heard about a while back, but never bothered implementing that does the same thing as the CSS hacks, which is to feed different files to different IE browsers, but IMHO is not a hack at all but a sanctioned method approved my Microsoft.
It’s called ‘Conditional Comments’, and they work very well. What it means is that you can take a design from your graphic artist, lay it out in a CSS compliant browser like Firefox or the new IE7 and then check it in the lower browsers. Anything that you can’t add in the original CSS file that will real good browser layouts can be stuck into a tiny extra file that is parsed at time of rendering. It’s speeding things up a lot, probably because working strictly from a CSS compliant browser and going backwards is just plain easier. Because I know it’s something that will work into the future, it’s getting worked into the present with no worries of breakage, and that’s a good thing.
After a trip to the General Store, though it would be interesting to list out everything I’ve eaten since moving to Bowen Island. A very wet trip, it’s pouring out there(!), was reminded that food for Sunday has to be bought tomorrow, they will be closed for Xmas day. So, at the top of the list is my intake for today, lunch and dinner in that order…
Old Dutch Potato Chips
2 Cereal Bars
2 Bean & Cheese Burritos
Milk, Coffee
Now for the rest of the years, including above..
Rice
Beans
Hamburger
Pea Soup
Assorted Breads
Pizza
Assorted Candy
Ice Cream
Kraft Dinner/Pasta
Chef Boyardee Ravioli
Oatmeal
McDonald’s on trips to mainland
6 Breakfasts at The Snug
French Fries/Frozen Potatoes
Ketchup
Hmm, I guess that’s it until I think of something else that I’ve eaten to add to the list. Think it will be pizza for Xmas day, easy decision!
NEW BEDFORD — A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s tome on Communism called “The Little Red Book.” The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a “watch list,”….
And this just in - it’s all a hoax. What a weird hoax though, as if it’s being said, “don’t worry about it, stories like this are just from sick kids”, at a time when the MSM is full of stories of govt. phone taps and warrant-less police actions.
