Fixed my blog layout for IE
I noticed while posting to my blog that the layout was totally and completely broken on IE (but fine on Firefox). After some trial and error, I tracked it down to my x2vnc post, which had some wide content inside <pre>...
Bought a TiVo for my parents
My parents' birthday (yes, that's right - parents' - they both have the same birthday) is this week and I wanted to get them something different this year. I went ahead and bought them a TiVo along with a 6 month gift...
accretive design => headaches
Somebody summed up my thoughts succintly today about a particular piece of software that I had been playing with: "accretive design => headaches". He also pointed out that "accretive design" is an oxymoron, which I also think...
Updated mozilla.org bug requesting addition of Yahoo Search Sidebar to Mozilla Update
I updated the bug requesting that they add my Yahoo! Search Sidebar to Mozilla Update. All I had to do was provide them with a direct link to the .xpi file on my new sourceforge project page...
stlfilt
stlfilt is a nice package that you run as a frontend to g++ (or other compilers) and it collects all of those nasty, long STL errors and warnings with a bazillion template parameters and parses them into something that humans who...
I hate sites that break the Back button
One of the most irritating things a web site can do is to break the expected behavior of the Back button in my browser. So by using inappropriate caching settings, a site can make it so that the Back button refetches content,...