Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Il y a bien longtemps, Karl nous demandait si nous nous souvenions de notre première photo. Maintenant que j’ai acheté et installé un scanner, je vais pouvoir enfin vous faire profiter!
Voici ma première photo, ainsi qu’une autre photo de moi à l’époque. C’était le 7 juillet 1981, le jour de mes sept ans.
While you wait for version 3.1 of Climb to the Stars, have a look at what version 2 looked like.
*Sigh* yes I know, there was version 1 before that…
I’m amazed it took me so long to discover usenet. I had heard about it a lot, of course, but I simply couldn’t figure out how to access it. First, you need a news server. I recommend http://news.cis.dfn.de/ as a free news server. I used my ISP’s previously, but it became really sick a few weeks ago, so I gave up on it.
All you need to do is sign up with the news server, and once you have received the confirmation email, follow the instructions to set up your news account in your newsreader. If you’re using windows, Outlook Express is perfectly acceptable as a newsreader.
Once your account is set up, just choose the newsgroups you want to follow, and start reading and posting!
If you don’t feel like signing up for an account but want to experience usenet a bit, you can use a web-based newsreader like mailgate.
Warning: time-consuming activity.
The table-less version of this site is done with. At least the hard bit is. Now I just need to implement the new markup all through the site. A breeze, I tell you!
Recommended reading for the day, at A List Apart: Forgiving Browsers Considered Harmful.
More on the topic maybe, if my head clears up some day. [concussion still]
Over at waferbaby: do you think paper and books will eventually disappear?.
I don’t know if everybody is aware of this (maybe it’s normal behaviour), but I thought I’d share my recent discoveries (as they caused me to bang my head against the wall and tear a few handfulls of hair out until I understood).
clear: both – seems to ignore absolutely positioned divs, which means that if you are using {clear: both} to push your div to the bottom of the page, and that the “longest” div on your page is absolutely placed, you might not get the desired result.margin-top – seems to be ignored by ie5mac when applied to a floating div. Depending on the situation, you can try replacing margin-top by padding-top (if the div has no background or border, and all you really want to do is shift the contents downwards).No endless talk on the war between the sexes this time. Just a little gem I pulled out of cannboys’ Trash the Web.
Dug out of the web mine for you, I can’t remember exactly how or when.
While I’m here, here are a few sites that I visit rather regularly (but maybe not everyday).