Beutelevision

IE6’s well known margin problems can be solved many ways, such as using CSS that only IE6 will read.

I like to use CSS and jQuery as follows:

CSS:

#wrapper
 {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 800px;
  ...
 }
 .wrapperie6
 {
  width: 810px !important; /* compensate for IE6 */
 }

and the jQuery code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  if($.browser.version == '6.0'){
  // alert('you are using ie6');
  $('#wrapper').addClass('wrapperie6');
  }

It’s rude and crude, but it does the job.

Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted something. A part of that was the decision to move away from my custom blog code (mostly XSLT based, believe it or not!) to something much easier, WordPress. In the process I moved all of my old posts over, but I lost all the links. Oh well!

Anyway, on with the show…

Is it just me, or do others hear the words “Foot Long” kosaurus in their imagination when they read the word Futalognkosaurus?

Tom Friedman writes that todays twentysomethings are too Quiet – hence the moniker Generation Q.

I get his point, but it seems to me that quiet is a strength that is easily underestimated.

Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros. and MGM are teaming up with BitTorrent to provide better downloading using P2P. That’s good.

But cable and DSL companies are shutting down users who use too much bandwidth. You see, their business model assumes that most users use their internet connection only occasionally, not full time. It will be interesting to see what happens when video downloading becomes as common as web surfing.

Will your provider shut you out?

I was stumped for a moment by this error on the Mac. It turns out that the simple solution is to sign out, and then sign in again.The same goes for the SPH200D when it is not able to skype-out. Just sign out and then sign in again.

Bittorrent for Leopard and Apple TV? Carl Howe thinks so.]

Here is an interesting event coming up next year. I’m not sure to what extent it will interest life coaches, but the form to receive updates mentions coaching services.

Eight people and counting.That’s how many have told me that I’m getting $100 back (actually, $100 store credit) for purchasing my iPhone early.It seems to me that you can’t buy this sort of word-of-mouth. Or maybe, that IS the way to buy it.

An interesting article at Edmunds talks about Chevy and A123Systems teaming up. “Weber said GM believes electric power is the only way to achieve the automaker’s goal of taking the automobile out of the environmental equation because it emits no emissions.”