Monthly Archive for June, 2005

Ummm…WHAT THE?!?

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This is the funniest photo I’ve seen in a while. I laughed out loud when I saw it, just as someone was walking past my cubicle (yes I have a cubicle). Rather than looking up to see what I was laughing at I think they assumed it was at them as they put their head down and quickened the pace.

Semester’s out!

I have finished my second last semester of uni. In the next few days I will probably be doing a more detailed post about the project we completed this semester and also making the 260 odd pages of documentation (don’t worry, only around 100 pages is actual report, the rest is appendices) available for anyone insane enough to read it.

The end of semester also means that this site is OFFICIALLY UNDER LIVE DEVELOPMENT. So be warned, there may be some unexpected behaviour. The reason for the live development is I’m trying to get together a beta release of my photo album plugin for WordPress which I have named ‘1ooo Words’ for now (and ever, unless I think of something better).

Firefox and Flickr: Bad behaviour

I have come across some interesting bad behaviour from Firefox and the Flickr site. I recently started using Flickr after holding out for quite some time. And when I finally get around to doing my photo album upgrade and turning it into a right, proper WordPress plugin I will be trying to ensure people who use it can host their photos on Flickr if they wish.

Anyway, back to the bad behaviour. I have twice seen this in the past two days and I can’t for the life of me figure out why it might be happening. When I load a Flickr page (it doesn’t always happen mind you) from a link on another page like from here, this is the result:

Flickr and Firefox bad behavior

You might notice a not-so-subtle blue tinge. Now if I copy and past that address into a new tab there are no problems at all; the page loads quite normally. But this is where it gets even more interesting, if I scroll down a little on the blue tinged page this is what I see:

Flickr and Firefox bad behavior

That’s right, the blue tinge only affects the visible area when the page loads - nothing below that.

I haven’t looked into the code at all to try and find the cause; quite frankly I don’t have the time or energy. However, this still intrigues me. The problem doesn’t seem to effect IE or Opera. If anyone has any clue as to what this could be please feel free to let me know.

On a side note, late last night I got my very first comment form someone I didn’t know. Thanks greymullet. And he has a very good point too. I see all sorts of problems with their theory - and I really don’t have much idea about such things. Who knows, maybe it would have worked IF THEY COULD GET IT INTO ORBIT!!

It took me a while to track greymullet down. I simply couldn’t believe he had found my site out of the blue, and he hadn’t. He must have linked from a comment I made on this post from Michael Heilemann. So there you go.

Procrastinatory: It’s a Word!!

I tried the experimental use of a word last night…turns out it’s an actual word (although not according to Google - can they get anything right?). I was being very procrastinatory last night. This is one of the things I was doing:

The Winter Solstice Full Moon 2005