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The Wanker Standard

Look, I’ve worked with internal combustion, and I’ve worked with wankers, and let me tell you, when Dave says it ain’t worth arguing about, he is soooo wrong!

Yeah, a car is all about getting places right? No, it’s about getting there in style! It’s about being compliant when you get there, and having a good specification, and a validator. What good is your internal combustion car when it does not validate! It’s not even a valid car! Now a wanker, we all know about wankers. (If you don’t, read up on Wankers.) Wankers are a dream to deal with, just ask one of your friends in one of those countries that adds the letter U to words that don’t need it. (Maybe those Flickr folks know, but then again, they are missing an E, did thy evr notic tht?)

Anyway, if I had to describe RSS, and couldn’t describe it as ‘feeding whales apple pies’ I supposed it would say it’s “like information, only it keeps on coming at you, and the only way to stop it is to unsubscribe…”

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CSS Sucks (Sort of…)

CSS does not suck, but it can be a bit frustrating…

On a recent project, I started building a pure-CSS drop-down menu system. It worked… Sort of… In some browsers… Almost. In total, I probably spent two days reading, testing, tweaking, and reload and at the end I gave up, because as much as I love CSS, and wanted a pure-CSS solution to work for this particular project, I just couldn’t spend any more time on it. I ended up deleting the 50 or so extra lines of CSS the menu system needed, and went with the gMenu system, which uses a combination of CSS (yay!) and Javascript (ugh!) and works. Oh, it’s also open-source.

I’m still not 100% set on gMenu, so if you have another suggestion, please let me know. I would prefer a pure-CSS solution without Javascript, but I don’t think that will work. What do you use for drop-down menu systems?


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BarCampMilwaukee Part III

BarCampMilwaukee

Ok folks, if you are interested in BarCampMilwaukee, check out the wiki page: BarCampMilwaukee

I’m hoping barcampmilwaukee.com shows up soon (and I’d be happy to host it) but for now, let’s get moving using the BarCamp resources we have available. Who’s with me? Justin? Jordan? Jeremy?



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JobDig

I found the paper edition of JobDig at the grocery store, and read it while waiting for an appointment, but lo and behold, there is also JobDig.com, and since I am still searching for a “Job that I Dig” checked it out…

I didn’t find anything that quite fit my skills or career goals, but I did stumble across the JobDig Podcast, which I thought was well done. Some of the podcast titles include: “Three Common Deadly Interview Mistakes” and “Exceptions for Exceptional Weirdos.”

So at least I’ve got some podcasts to listen to while I wait for all the offers to roll in… :)

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The Sounds of Natural Cause

It’s been a few months since I got the Buried songs online, and since then I got two songs from Patrick Hotlen, but never got to upload them due to Ourmedia problems. Well, they are finally up, and on the MilwHC Natural Cause page.

“Hell Bound” is one of my favorites, and “Death of a Miser” shows the musical abilities of Natural Cause at the time. I’m glad these are up now, as the whole idea behind the Milwaukee Hardcore project is to make our history available. Do you have something to contribute? Please do…