Firefox 1.0.x zip build

Where, oh where will I find the one true zip..

Here.

Wallet clearout

These are my notes from the top 10 of the Top 100 cartoons:

• The Nightmare Before Xmas


• Iron Giant


• What's Opera, Doc?


• Spirited Away


• Family Guy


• Bill Oddie hates cats.

In case you didn't see it, Tom & Jerry were second, and The Simpsons were first. You might disagree about the order but they share this one crucial characteristic: the early series were so very much better than the later ones..

When I was a kid, I used to look out for Fred Quimby's name in the credits - that usually guaranteed "Classic" T&J, not that later rubbish (why did Tom have to talk, why oh why..)

Actually useful for once

Google now allows searches for up to 32 words instead of 10

Dean again

Dean Edwards on why IE7 can't support CSS2.

Edit: now it occurs to me they could just use Tasman.

Gone monthly

Now this isn't JALD anymore and there's Google search to look at the archives I've
gone for a monthly archive. It'll take a while for Google to index the archive pages, though.

If anyone's interested, this is what you have to put in your template to strip the navbar down to search only:

/* Lose bits of navbar I don't like */
/* Lose logo div */
#b-navbar, #b-logo
  {
    display:none !important;
  }
/* Lose it's contained img */  
#b-logo img 
{
display:none !important;
}
/* Other stuff */
#b-more, #b-getorpost, #b-next, #b-this, #b-blogthis
{
display:none !important;
}

It goes in the top of the template with the other CSS rules.

Giz an oogle

Gizoogle - Fo all you beotches who wanna find shiznit

Hmm

So I thought, well, I can never get into Blogger in the evenings so I will set up the email address posting thing and post by emailing to that.

Doesn't work. Had to post manually.

My heart feels like an alligator

Goodbye Hunter S Thompson

As the ultra-perspicacious Weaver asked right away - what would Doonesbury do about
Duke? Seems like many asked, and the answer is that Duke is no longer
Thompson. Well, noone is, now, but they
both were once. Tom
Wolfe's obit is OK.
Me, I don't know - but Carl Fussell of Mpls, MN wrote

Thompson hated you almost as much as he hated Duke. If you had any restraint you'd stop insulting him with the gross parody and ditch Duke. The man killed himself for God's sake. Show some class.

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/blowback/index.html

Title from Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas: a book I can't recommended highly enough..

Good griefers!

More from Microsoft:

Known as griefers, snerts, cheese players, twinks, or just plain cyberbullies, chances are that a kid near you has been bothered by one of these ne'er-do-wells...

10 tips for dealing with game cyberbullies and griefers

Edit: More on snerts.

In case you had trouble with the previous entry..

From Microsoft: A parent's primer to computer slang: understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them. If your kids are this 1337 tehn it's you who needs protection m3th1nkz.. does anyone really do that anymore anyway?

Just Goog L33T

Googleet - Google translated into hacker language. See also Googelmer..

Springfield Is For Gay Lovers Of Marriage

dot com - very little content though.

Edit: see also dorks-gone-wild, What Badgers Eat, and Sexy Slumber Party. I haven't seen any of these episodes. A blast from the past is Mr X's site.

Aligning controls in the IDE

IDEs allow you to group controls and set layouts - align left edges, align top edges etc. But, if a controls are within different containers, they can't be aligned. The form is a container, so if you have a textbox in a container you can't align it to a textbox on the form. In fact, you can't usually select two controls which aren't in the same container, which is probably the cause of the problem.

So the controls need to be aligned manually - you can add together the various borderwidths and control positions to arrive at a figure, or do it by eye. The former is too much trouble, and the latter is problematic as the controls will be separated by formspace.

I was swearing about this the other day when Robin gave me an answer: he suggested moving the control to be aligned until it overlaps with the target control, after which it is trivial to visually align the controls, at which point the aligned control can be returned to it's proper position on the form using the arrow keys or the appropriate positioning properties.

A Google 419

At least that's what it looks like..

New words [1] - Soap Creep

Soap Creep

It starts with just watching EastEnders: then you watch a bit of Corrie because EastEnders is so depressing, and Hollyoaks doesn't count, but the next thing you know you're scheduling in Emmerdale, spending your weekend afternoons catching up with the omnibi, and taping those ridiculous Australian afternoon soaps. CF Scope Creep.

An easy mistake to make

We went to see The Producers last week - on Holocaust Memorial Day: at least Mel Brooks is Jewish.

I never thought I would go to a West End musical, and I probably never will again, even though it was a brilliant show. Go if you can, just choose a more propitious day than I did.

What could it do?

Does Picasa 2 really have an "I'm feeling lucky" button as suggested by the screenshot? Interesting branding by Google. I will try it tomorrow.

"Where fame meets food"

Supper With The Stars. Linda Lusardi, The Hamiltons, Go West, the list goes on, and on.. The Brotherhood of Man "will entertain [!] you with a rendition of their hits after dinner" and so have "Special Requirements: Floor space (8 x 5 feet) in which to perform [and] 3 electrical sockets (for their instruments)". There are icons in each "star"'s profile indicating what they will and won't do, the key is here. If you want a dead comedian's dog to come to dinner, you could consider Schorbitz maybe?

Tsu nasty man

The heart-warming story of a rescued Thai dolphin.

Ace's Generic Walk-Thru For Every Game You've Ever Played

You start in a small room. Outside the door are two guards, talking with each other. It's best if you completely ignore them, because they're voiced by horrible actors and their script is shit, written by game designers who think they're "funny." Usually it's something like "Yeah, I've been meaning to check out that new T-88 Cloudhopper." Your gaming experience will be enhanced if you just immediately walk out the door and shoot them in their stupid fucking faces. They will offer no resistance.

The rest