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Archive for February, 2004

Nifty CSS trick

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 […]

Making screen captures of a DVD

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.

Run the terminal, run ’screencapture -c’ to copy the entire screen to the clipboard. You can […]

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 […]

Yes, I did it again.

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 […]

iPhotoToGallery

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 […]