So I’ve been working on a website for a client and in addition to testing on Internet Explorer and Firefox, I also test it on an iPad.
The client’s website is implemented with WordPress and I decided to do a ‘child theme’ (a theme that leverages another theme), and my child theme was leveraging the included TwentyEleven theme because the latter offers a lot of nice features and I figure it’s been well beaten over and fixed up over time. It’s been much more a pain than I would have thought to adapt TwentyEleven to my needs (by having to override things in my child theme) but I digress.
What really ate up a huge amount of time trying to fix was the site not displaying on the iPad the way in which it showed everywhere else. The top menu and header were resized and background cut off about 2/3rds across. Looooong story short, I discovered that a floated unordered list (or ul) widely used (including in TwentyEleven) to do the top menu bar was the culprit, or rather the containing div element. I eventually decided to add an empty clearing div before closing the container div, and yup, that fixed it!
So the TwentyEleven theme css gives the id “access” for the menu bar. I had already defined the class “clear” simply as follows:
Moved a website to another server, and this wysiwyg editor, fckeditor, didn’t work after the move. Was driving me nuts.
Found out eventually (after many dead end and no answers online which is why I’m posting this), the reason is that magic quotes was turned on in the php configuration. Turning that off solved the problems!
The folks who are getting free stuff, don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff. Because the folks who are paying for the free stuff, can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.
And, the folks who are paying for the free stuff, want the free stuff to stop. And the folks who are getting the free stuff, want even MORE free stuff on top of the free stuff they’re getting already.
Now, the people who are forcing people to PAY for the free stuff, have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced and racist.
So, the people who are GETTING the free stuff, have been convinced they need to HATE the people who are PAYING for the free stuff because they are selfish. And they are promised more free stuff if they will vote for the people who force the people who pay for the free stuff to give them even more free stuff.
And — when the free stuff stops , the folks receiving the free stuff will riot, burn, steal and commit mayhem. For the “rich” owe them! It is
happening in England and coming here soon.
So the Mr. Coffee coffee maker I had finally quit. It wasn’t expensive, but still annoying that it just died. It was probably about 3 years old. I liked that it had a green backlit fairly large analog-style (hands) but LCD clock. It had a thermal carafe which meant no burnt coffee from it sitting on a warmer, but the caraffe was heavy and hard to open, so this time I decided to go back to a glass carafe coffee maker.
Good friend recommended the Cuisinart DCC-1200 12 cup maker, which had very positive reviews but I looked a little more and found a 14 cup model that looked like it had a nicer looking design. I ended up buying a ‘refurbished’ one from Abe’s of Maine for just $59.95 + shipping. Shipping was pricey at $12.19 but I still saved nearly $30. It came quickly and looked just like new. Note: It did say refurbished by Cuisinart themselves and that the warranty is 90 days. Perhaps a non-refurbished one has a longer warranty.
So how is it so far?
Last night I watched In The Shadow Of The Moon, with some of the surviving astronauts, telling, in their own words, what the Apollo program and moon landings were like, interspersed with tons of footage of the events themselves. It was wonderful. While the space stuff is great, it was also very personal, and you got to hear what the events meant to the people involved. An intro by Ron Howard, involved with the project, was great too.
I have had a Canon 40D for a while and it’s a GREAT camera. Before that I had a 20D which was a big step up for Canon, but the tiny LCD and more limited auto focus made the trip to the 40D a great upgrade.
But this 7D, wow – better/faster auto focus, better LCD, better view finder, 18 megapixels, much better high ISO capability (lower noise), better controls, high def video, on and on and on !!!!!
I’ve been on a quest for some time to improve the quality of brewed coffee I make at home. I learned there’s lots of factors. The coffee of course, but how (and when) it’s ground, the water, the coffee maker, how long the coffee sits, whether it’s a coffee maker with a hot plate under a carafe (terrible!), or whether it’s made with some other kind of device altogether (e.g., french press).
On a recent trip a friend showed me what was claimed and he claimed to be the tool to make the BEST coffee. A lofty claim. But you know, it seems to be true!!!!
Meet Aeropress. A manual device that at first glance seems like a French Press and a large veterinary syringe!
It comes with little single use round paper filters (or you can get a ‘permanent’ type filter separately). You put a filter in a bottom cap that has holes in it for the brewed coffee to flow through. You screw the cap on the bottom of the main clear part that sits on top of a coffee mug. You put in coffee, a little hot water (up to a number on the side, typically the ’2′ mark), stir (with included stirrer), then the syringe like plunger is put in the top and gently pushed down to the coffee to exert pressure on the coffee/water, forcing it through the filter. That’s it, you’ve just made a double espresso! This can be diluted with hot water to a regular American style coffee or hot milk to make a latte.
And the result? It’s EXCELLENT!
Even better, the clean up is amazing. Remove the bottom cap and push the plunger further to push the hard and pretty dry ‘puck’ of coffee and filter out, and into your trash or compost or wherever! Clean the bottom of the rubber plunger and that’s it.
As the old man walked down a Spanish beach at dawn, he saw ahead of him what he thought to be a dancer. The young man was running across the sand, rhythmically bending down to pick up a stranded starfish and throw it far into the sea.
The old man gazed in wonder as the young soul again and again threw the small starfish from the sand into the water. The old man approached him and asked why he spent so much energy doing what seemed a waste of time. The young man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun.
“But there are thousands of miles of beach, and miles and miles of starfish. How can your effort make any difference?”
The young man looked down at the small starfish in his hand, and as he threw it to safety in the sea, said, “It makes a difference to this one!”
Recent projects include: hangitwright.com – a building contractor in Wildwood, Florida, specializing in drywall, acoustical insulation, and framing for commercial and residential construction. frankjdeluca.com – a site for Frank J. DeLuca, owner of DeLuca Toyota in Ocala, Florida, and great supporter of the community. debbieklugger.com – a life coach, Debbie Klugger coaches individuals and groups and conducts workshops globally based on the Inner Bonding and Heal Your Life philosophies. fabiandinkins.com – a site for Fabian Dinkins Construction, a highly successful and respected residential and commercial construction firm based in Ocala, Florida.
A friend has created a new iPhone app called QuickGifter.
The description is as follows:
How many times have you been embarrassed by giving the wrong gifts? Or the wrong size? Or the wrong color? The new QuickGifter iPhone app takes all the worry out of gift giving by keeping a well-organized gift database of any and all important wish list information that you may need while shopping . Best of all, if you have a spouse, partner, relative, or friend that is shopping and needs the same info, you can easily email them QuickGifter wish list details for any person in your QuickGifter library.
The firewall in Windows 7 appears to be much more sophisticated than the one in Vista or XP. To configure it properly on a computer you wish to be a Quickbooks Pro database server, the simplest way is to use Intuit’s free nettool.exe program. Download from here.
Moving on to a different camera, so want to sell my wonderful 40D.
Includes extra batteries (4 total!), a handy hand strap, original box, all cables, cards, discs, etc.
$700+shipping.
contact bit_kahuna AT yahoo DOT com if interested! thanks.
My nice Dell XPS 420 has an ATI Radeon 2600 HD XT video card in it. Perfectly smooth performance for my needs (I’m no gamer), and it runs my 24″ display at 1920×1200 under Vista just fine.
A few months ago I figured I’d upgrade the display driver, and got a new install from the ATI (now AMD) web site. After the install, the ‘Catalyst Control Center’ (known as the evil ‘CCC’ to many) would NOT start automatically or run when launched – displaying some obscure error.
After so much wasted time researching the problem, finding hundreds of people with similar problems but no answers, or none that worked at least, I gave up, but wait, I couldn’t uninstall the new software either. So I had to use the system restore to go back to an earlier ‘time’, which worked, restoring the old driver and control center that shipped with the system.
Fast forward to recently, and my system has been crashing overnight a few times lately. Not good. Couldn’t find out why, nothing in Event Viewer, or anywhere else. I leave my machine on all the time because it backs up at night, plus it’s actually less wear and tear on the hardware to leave it on.
Recently after being frustrated further with the occasional out of the blue crashes, I upgraded to the latest driver, but did NOT bother trying to install the catalyst control center (ccc) as I don’t need it anyway. All good so far!!!
There’s been an enormous amount of discussion, arguments, and chatter about ‘torture’. What it is, what is isn’t, and who is doing it.
Guantanamo, the U.S. military detention camp, has been loudly criticized for ‘water-boarding’ (simulated drowning) of 3 terrorists. No doubt this technique is psychnologically terrible, but whether any permanent damage is inflicted is unclear. Top level U.S. military personnel themselves are subjected to water-boarding so they’re aware of what they might be subjected to by enemies, so if one believes water-boarding is torture, then the U.S. tortures its own military. A soldier told me of a fast 25 mile walk he had to endure with 50lbs of gear on, and his bleeding feet. Is that torture? Heck, I’ve been in business meetings I’d describe as torture. Sorry, must not make light of this!
But somehow lost in the argument is what other countries do. 60 Minutes did a piece on an Iranian student’s story. He had been part of a student protest in Iran and was eventually arrested and then held and tortured for years before being released.
I think everyone should see this. It’s just 12 minutes.
Well he’s off to a really bad start. Here’s just a few ‘highlights’:
He’s fighting to restructure healthcare in the country while the economy collapses.
He’s had a string of tax cheating nominees and appointments to his cabinet.
He’s reneged on his commitment to get out of Iraq, taking longer to end ‘combat’ than he promised, and he’ll leave 50,000 troops there after.
He campaigned to veto all earmarks and yet is ok with a budget containing thousands.
His trillion dollar ‘stimulus’ program does not seem to have impressed anyone, except politicians bringing useless pork-barrel projects to their districts.
After just 5 weeks, he plans to balloon the deficit to exceed the total of all deficits during the 8 years of the Bush (II) administration.
He is planning to end tax breaks for sizable charitable donations by the wealthy which will really hurt charities AND small businesses.
His vice-president has made gaffe after gaffe after gaffe.
His vice-president met, just today, in a SECRET meeting with AFL-CIO at their swanky conference in Miami. The Obama administration plans to end privacy for union votes.
Instead of trying to inspire a nation, his speeches have been consistently negative, talking of crisis and catastrophe. He pathetically said this week maybe it’s time for people to put money in the stock market. The market plunged right after.
He keeps the White House heated like an oven, is doing massive and expensive renovations, yet wants everyone else to conserve.
He’s talking about ‘green jobs’, but there’s no energy policy.
He still hasn’t filled his cabinet.
He has waged a PR war with a radio blow hard (Rush Limbaugh) which is completely irrelevant, and just a distraction.
His treasury secretary (Geithner) has no lieutenants and so the senate banking committee got no treasury representative to attend their inquiry into AIG bailout because Geithner was being grilled in the House on another matter.
One day the President declared Geithner would speak with details the next day on the banking and other plans, and the next day Geithner gave no details, and weeks later, still has no details or plan.
Perhaps this is Obama’s actual plan – to drive the economy into the dirt, so he can then establish some ‘emergency powers’ or something, and turn the U.S. into the socialist economy he wants.
I do believe he LOATHES small business because everything so far has been aimed AGAINST that. Why? Because small businesses are hard to control. Europe began a war on small business decades ago and killed most of them. European governments prefer big companies with back room ‘deals’ because they can keep an eye on them and control them better.
I think it’s fair to say he’s off to a horrible start. Wall St. has ZERO confidence in what they’ve done and what they haven’t done.
I believe we are witnessing the END of America and any American dream as we have understood it. Thanks a lot Obama.
If you voted for him, shame on you. Fooled you good.
T. Boone Pickens has made a fortune in oil. But he’s an American first and at 80, he’s still passionate and dedicated to helping the U.S. reduce its dependence on foreign oil. The U.S. gets 70% of its oil from foreign sources today, which is a MAJOR NATIONAL SECURITY RISK.
A good friend of mine, Curtis Ide, is passionate about pizza! Specifically, making great pizza at home. He’s so passionate in fact that he’s written a book about it with all the details, great pictures, and of course, lots of recipes! He’s just put up a blog web site to talk about it and share info, so check it out!
Like many who love NASA and all it has accomplished, I was horrified to learn the Challenger space shuttle blew up a couple of minutes after launch as it rocketed into space.
Later that day, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the nation, that was brilliantly written by Peggy Noonan, and brilliantly delivered. He talked to the astronauts loved ones, to all adults, to children, about loss, taking chances and bravery, why life isn’t for the ‘faint hearted’ and added a poetic line at the end that still gives me goosebumps.
So I got a Blackberry Storm recently (love it, although there’s quite a learning curve!).
Anyway, it can capture video, which is pretty cool. So I grabbed a few tiny videos and wanted to see if I could transfer, edit, and publish on youtube.
Took two tiny videos, transferred them, imported to Windows Movie Maker (free), trimmed the videos, added titles, credits, transitions, and music, in, oh, 15 minutes?!
Here it is. Not Oscar-worthy, but hey, it’s my first.
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