Happy Birthday Colleen! Hope you have a good one.
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links for 2006-07-26
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heynounce – helping new sites announce themselves
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links for 2006-07-24
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The Sect of Homokaasu – The RasterbatorThis is quite old, but it came up in a lab I was teaching last night.
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California ISO: System StatusWatch how much power California actually uses.
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Another site that was mentioned during a photography lab session last night. We were talking, and this would be the ultimate photo album, and pretty cheap too!
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YouTube – Star Wars Next GenAs Bud put it, “i am now wet. thanks.”
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CSS Problems
Well, I’ve started a new redesign of the site, but I’m having a few problems that maybe someone could help me with. Basically, on the title, I can’t get it to sit 5px off the bottom. As you can see, the title sits 10px to the left like I want, but it won’t sit 10px above the bottom. If you go to my test page and increase and decrease the size of the page font you’ll see what I’m talking about.
The full CSS for this is available, but the section in question is given below.
#heading .title
{
color:#FFF;
font-size: 2em;
position: absolute;
bottom:10px;
left:10px;
}Is this a normal feature of CSS? Basically, I want the text to sit 10px above the bottom of the dark background regardless of what size the font in increased to or decreased. If you look at an entry at the bottom, that text is always 10px away from the border, why can’t the title section? Yes, I know that it’s handled differently, but that’s the look I desire.
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Weekend Ride
Sometime in September, Erin and I are planning on riding from Chicago to South Haven, MI. Now, since this is incredibly further than I’ve ever ridden before, there needs to be some training (specifically for the posterior).
Lately, I haven’t been riding at all. In fact, the last time I had gone was over the fourth. Granted, we did probably put in just over 20 miles that day. So, Erin found a workout schedule online that prepares you for a 100 mile ride. Basically, you ride 10 or so miles a day, and then ever Saturday you put in the large miles. Last weekend we were supposed to put in 30, which isn’t that far, as long as my rear end keeps up. Thankfully every time I’ve ridden it’s been able to keep up with longer and longer distances.
Well, like I said, we were supposed to put in 30. Instead, we put in over 40. Oops. This weekend we’re supposed to put in 37ish. For some reason, I don’t think that’ll be a problem.
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links for 2006-07-21
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This is an awesome little web applet that allows you to quickly setup and time tasks.
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Tourist RemoverInteresting way to remove people from photographs.
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links for 2006-07-19
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Nothing like raising them to hate. Maybe this could have something to do with the tension?
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This is the type of game we need more of. Infinite possibilities. Just think of the multiplayer action!
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Adobe Labs – Lightroom Beta VideosNew software from Adobe. Looks like it could be interesting. Apparently this is for pros, so it could be interesting
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links for 2006-07-18
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StartCom Free SSL Certification Authority – Home
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links for 2006-07-17
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These could be fun if you’ve got a game room that already has a dart board.
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The G8 – Franz Ferdinand
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Made in EurekaI originally saw the cryo kennel ad on TV with my roommate and Erin. He then found this and sent it to me. You have to read the reviews of the products. Hilarious.
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Fun Road
Since I’ve been spending so much time up at Belmont and Lincoln, I’ve been trying to find new ways to get from here to there. I think I’ve found the jackpot too: Elston. Everytime I’ve been on the road there’s been nobody on it, and it’s got slight bends in it that actually make it fun too.
What’s pathetic though, is I basically found it by accident. One day when I was heading up that way, I took Ogden to Milwaukee, and was planning on taking Milwaukee to Ashland. However, Milwaukee was closed (or at least that what it said, it was actually open) right after Elston, so I hopped on it instead.
Heading from Belmont South, I take Ashland to Elston, then Milwaukee, Racine, Grand, and I’m home (sorry I can’t show you a map of it, talk about a missing feature on mapquest and google maps). What’s makes it even better is that the lights seemed to be timed just right so if you go 40-45 the whole way, you’ll make every green light. Nice!