RasterWeb!I dare say we might be under attack. With the unseasonably warm weather in place, I took a stroll outside, only to discover all sorts of creeping weirdness, not just bees, or wasps, or hornets, or whatever they are, but all variety of jumping and flying and crawling bugs. The outside wall of the building seemed to be covered with at least two dozen cricket-like beings.
Run people, run and hide. I’d suggest running to the basement, but the ground bees are probably already there… Aiiieeee!
I hate tables used for layout so much I think I’m gonna kill somebody. I mean, this is a nightmare! Nightmare! At least with the damn font tags I can regex them out pretty easily, but these damn nested tables…
Now, more than ever: The Web Standards Project, MACCAWS, A List Apart, css-discuss, webdesign-l, etc, etc, etc…
I beg of you, name the freakin’ thing Atom so we can get on with it!
I mean really… come on!
Unless you live in California, you can’t vote in the recall election. If there is one. I think they have to vote on that. (And besides, Asa isn’t running.)
And if you think voting for the next President of the United States will have some effect on things, well, ok, I guess you can believe that…
But right here, in our midst, is a way for you to voice your opinion, and have it heard! Yes people, it’s time for NameFinalVote!
RSS enclosures in AmphetaDesk? Sure, why not… It doesn’t actually do an automagical download when you sleep, but I don’t really need that feature anyway. What it does do is display the enclosure link along with the description, allowing you to get the enclosure easily. About 15 minutes of early morning hacking produces a new version of the minigr skin for AmphetaDesk. (See screenshot)
My co-worker (who is forced to worship at the alter of Microsoft and support Windows servers) alerted me to the fact that Windows counts it’s uptime in seconds. Meaning that while my Linux box tells me something like this: up 27 days. A Windows box, were it able to stay up more than a day, would display something like: The system uptime is 86400 seconds. He thinks this is because Microsoft doesn’t expect their boxes to be up more than a few minutes anyway…
But just in case you actually manage to keep your Windows box up and running for more than a few minutes, and don’t want to have to use the Event Viewer just to see the uptime, you can try this perl script: uptime.pl
All kidding aside, I do manage to keep my Windows box running for days at a time, and once a week I reboot it when I get sick of seeing system error dialogs…
