'LJ' Category
Heysen Trail Completion Log
I’ve spent the morning whipping up a nifty Heysen Trail Completion Log for myself. I give it the total number of km I have completed and php creates the percentage and adjusts the completion bar for me. I learnt a bit about css clipping and positioning and also how to get php running inside a [...]
Chocolate, the way it was meant to be
I bought some chocolates at Haighs today (well, yesterday) and would just like to proclaim to the world that I was thoroughly impressed with the whole process. The fact that I was requested to inspect the goods before purchasing them (ie. the guy opened the box and showed them all to me,) the way he [...]
Always show the location bar in Firefox
Not showing the location bar hides a very valuable piece of information from the user. There have been recent discussions on making the information it conveys even more visible to the user. Why is it then that Firefox allows websites to hide it? IMHO, the valuable nature of this information from a security perspective vastly [...]
Brown bear -> Polar bear
He’s back!
Before
AfterWaterfall Gully -> Mt Lofty
41 Minutes
Just putting it out there, I wouldn’t want to boast or anything.
Didn’t race on the way down since that’s far more dangerous.Firefox Crop Circle
Okay, I’m VERY behind on this one, but for those of you who aren’t particularly Mozilla-ey, last year a bunch of folks in the US made a Firefox Crop circle and you can now see it on Google earth/maps. Wenzel has some screenshots.
xkcd
Wow… I just discovered xkcd. How have I not yet discovered this?
Ok and then of course I had to look at every single one, and wasted a load of time I should really have spent doing productive things
And then I decided to write this blog entry, and waste even more…
So yeah, xkcd, it’s [...]Web 2.0
Many others have linked to this video, but if you haven’t seen it already I highly recommend it.
Web 2.0!Was invented here!
Does it amuse any of you as much as it does me that MSN.com is currently prominently pushing an article recommending IE users switch to Firefox or Opera?
In the most valuable real estate on the MSN homepage (probably making it some of the most valuable real estate on the web) is an image promoting a [...]Calvin and hobbes
Even though we don’t get snow here, these Calvin and Hobbes comics are still hilarious