Monthly Archives: February 2004

Nifty CSS trick

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I was doing some design work on a new business web site and fighting some alignment issues with Mozilla and Internet Explorer. After a bit of digging I discovered this conditional comment feature of IE 5 and 6.


<!--[if IE 5]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie5-fejl.css"></link>
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie6-fejl.css"></link>
<![endif]-->

This doesn’t solve the problem I’m working on, but I thought this was a neat enough trick. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with design issues like this on a daily basis. It’s frustrating enough to debug simple alignment issues.

Making screen captures of a DVD

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Apparently Apple doesn’t want you to take a screen capture of your DVD movies. When the DVD Player is running, the standard keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-3 is disabled. I did some googling and eventually found a nice work-around.

Underworld

Run the terminal, run ‘screencapture -c’ to copy the entire screen to the clipboard. You can even tell screencapture to write directly to a file. The only difficulty I have right now is that I can’t run a movie full-screen and still make the capture. There might be a way to tie it to a shortcut key, but my Apple skills are weak.

Fractured self: putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.

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I’ve tried to keep seperate my interests in technology and writing, going to far as to keep two seperate blogs dedicated to each. On one I would the technology of the day and the projects I was working on. On the other, this one, I would talk about more personal issues, about writing and other flights of fancy. I feel that the day has come to stand united, not divided.

From today onward, no more holding back, no more filtering who I am. I’m going to merge the posts from battleaxe.net into this system and finally do what I’ve needed to do with that site for a long time, turn it into a presence for the business I’ve been struggling with for the past year. A clear sense of identity leads to purpose to progress and hopefully, success.

Yes, I did it again.

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I have a bad habit of changing things that aren’t broken… and I’ve done it again.

About two months ago I decided to switch from MoveableType to .Text. I thought this would be a move in the right direction for me. I was wrong.

I’ve been switching things back over to Linux lately. I started with the mail server, which was a resounding success. Next I migrated all of the old web sites and shell accounts to the new server. Finally, I moved this site over to it, using WordPress. I imported the old posts from MoveableType and manually imported the ones from .Text. Hopefully everything’s working okay.

By the way, I know I’ve been kind of quiet as of late. Business matters have kept me extremely busy but I’m finally back on track where I wanted to be. I still have a lot of work to do but I should actually have the time to respond to emails now.

iPhotoToGallery

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I finally decided to install Gallery and upload the pictures from our vacation to New Zealand. While looking for an easier way to upload the photos I stumbled across this. iPhotoToGallery is a plugin for iPhoto that makes it easy to upload your iPhoto albums into Gallery.

I’m a happy camper now. Uploading each photo individually is a daunting task and the discovery of this is very pleasing. Good job, Zachary Wily.