CSS & IE kissing in a tree. NOT!

Spent the day at work today trying to find out WTH was going on with a repeating background image which wouldn't show in IE for Win. Turns out it was a problem with MS' idea of layout. I finally got some help from this guy. He refered to this article on layout. In order to understand the many many bugs of the different IE's reading this article should give you a good head start. You will recognize many of the hacks ("They are not hacks" argue as you want, at least you know what I'm talking about), but I find them easier when I actually understand why they work as well.

Good news everyone!

Short version:
The long awaited Playstation2-Slim has made it to my livingroom.

Long version with a longwinded sofa-story introduction:
Those who have bothered reading my older posts ... screw that, nobody has. Anywho, I've been on a mission to get my very first game consol, more spesifically one of them tiny Playstations. But destiny wanted it different.

Yesterday I ran off early from work to go couch-surfing. This time the domestic type, not the can't-afford-a-hostel kind which I'm used to from my globetrotting days. So I picked up my better half and got stuck in traffic. Lesson learned: Never try to rush anywhere in rush-hour, especially not when two trucks have crashed in the main tunnel through the city. Eventually we made it to warehouse no.1, spent some time trying out the couches. Obviously I had to like the way to expensive ones the most. Got the fuck out of there and went to warehouse no.2 where I found some very simular couches, but better. Note to self: make a proper post about this later.

But we didn't buy any there and then. But I had a hidden agenda checking the second warehouse, I knew a certain shop was nextdoor. As I walked in it was even more empty than last time, except fugly 500 Sony flatscreens on sale. Those were not the Sonys I was interested in, and after a quick overview of the empty shelves were my new toy should've been I simply asked the sleepy over-educated clerk. He swang his magic wand - no, not that wand you perv! - and whoopdidoo, I got the last-in-store, brand new PS2, quitly saluted ok'd by my gf. And offcourse the most talked about, discussed, hated, loved etc game: Grand Theft Auto.

Somehow I managed not to unwrap it until 10 sec's before my [irony]stricly enforced[/irony] nappytime. Which got me all excited, and now I just can't wait to get home, pretend I'm in my new sofa, spark up some of that shit that goes so well with being a gameadicted couchpotato, and kill, rob, rape, shoot, loot, speed and whatnot on my imaginary flatscreen TV.

The blog of the #1 dumbest President ever's #1 pick to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court!

I've never heard of this dumbnut before, found her blog via here and here. Funny seeing this when I was just writing about idiots earlier today. I am so HAPPY and full of JOY that I don't have to live in a country run by people who use CAPS THROUGHOUT THEIR BLOG and want the reader to give them 5 stars rating at the yahoo!-pressphotos. This is the kinda behaviour I'd expect from a 13 year old girl trying to hook up with 16 year old boys to have some fun in the backseat of his new car. Hey - I just got it! That is exactly her sole purpose of the blog. She just hasn't found chatrooms yet. HA HA HA! I gotcha!

Don't panic! We're all idiots.

You need a licence to drive a car, shoot a gun, pilot a plane etc. Or at least be over a certain age to perferm certain acts.

Now why doesn't this apply to using a computer (profesionally)? When a client asks us to make a website with an admin login and a certain degree of a CMS it wouldn't be to much to ask of him to know how to right-click and choose download when he/she wants to download stuff. But this is actually the kind of stuff they'll ask for towards the end of project.

So no matter how much user-friendlyness we twist our minds to accomodate, which also is limited by how much the client is willing to pay for our time off course, we can always bet that they'll dig deep down in the incompetent abyss and throw something totally and uterly surprising at us.

Which is what made me think: Shouldn't there be a big warning, a tutorial on hyperlink navigation, an instructional animated splashscreen or equal at the top of each page? Which is why the title and description of this blog has changed from Whatsinablog? to Don't Panic! - We're all idiots. If you don't think Don't Panic! is a great title, go read/see/downlaod/listen too
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! And as for the "We're all idiots" part, well, it's true. Can't argue with that one. I mean, even the leader of the world USA isn't perticulary intelligent...

Playstation 3. Or How I got a Headache.

My pet project is been put on hold for a while, at least until I know how much it will cost to fix my girlfriend's bike. Apperently alcohol makes you do things that aren't always so ... clever. The evening started out nice enough with some drinks at home. But by the time we got back home this had happened:

• One bike with rear wheel turned into a figure 8


• One bike with seat ripped off


• One snapped housekey


• Multiple bruises and wounds


• One SIM-card missing


• Two severe headaches


• Zero memory of WTH happened?!

In other words, it was a great night, but I have a bike that needs some looking after, which is gonna dig into the playstation savings. That I don't have to start with. Uhh. I'm getting a headache just thinking of it.

I give you the 110 kg mobilephone

I'm a little unsure what's the most "interesting" part of this, the fact that Elkjøp offeres 110kg Nokias, or that they could make a book out of the url. Check this http://www.elkjop.no/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/store-elkjop-Site/no_NO/-/NOK/El_DisplayProductInformation-Start;pgid=bVZsy0IMnt0000E4VzBJQEe_0000sL1SwL8A?ProductID=LDLD4QFWzFcAAAEDSj6tBDp1&CatalogCategoryID=l1DD4QFWDGYAAAEGTdksrzW8&filename=productpage_text%2cproducttype_text%2cprodtypes_vartypes_text# for a try!

Blog publication speed?

I haven't had this blog for long, but I did expect it to publish when I hit the publish button. That's the slogan right - "One-button publishing". I am quite annoyed my posts don't show up until the next day. WTH is the point of that? Do I have to bring a shovel to the things-I-once-knew-graveyard and dig up my dead PHP-skills to create my own blog from scratch? What? What!?

[Edit:] I just checked the RSS feed, and they appear there. So if you wanna read my blog, RSS is the way to go, until I get this business figured out that is offcourse.

Playstation 2

Today I made my way to Siba's brick & mortar shop to pick up one of the new PS2s, as they have them quite cheap, and I want one before the weekend. That didn't turn out to well, as all the shelves were empty. Ok, stay calm, I can just order it online instead, it just means I've gotta wait a couple days extra, and pay the extra postage.

No! That's no option. So I went over to QXL, a norwegian eBay-like site. Did a quick search, filtered out all the junk and found myself a nice one to bid on. Right now it's about 2/3 the shop price, and includes GTA San Andreas and a 8mb memorycard. So now I've got 4 days of thrillings and shivers as the actionsaga continues its countdown.

Playstation

USAiii

Having fun reading the news (warning: linked page in Norwegian) today. Apperently the US army rectuiters are now using iTunes to send their kids to die. Way to go!

A PS2 for me?

After much pressure from my co-workers I'm starting to think I should get myself a Playstation©. Which would be my first ever playconsol! I'm not to sure when I'd have the time to play on the thing, or if it's really something I should get. I have a feeling it could quite easily eat up a hellofalot of my time. But now that it's smaller, new color and... duh. What's with everything being so small anyway? It's not like we have overpopulated the planet so much that everything needs to be minimized. Except SUVs offcourse. Hate 'em hate 'em hate 'em all!

Well, tomorrow I'll have a look at these things. I wonder if I'll be able to deside between the colors.

Pictures up and running.

Paradise.jpg
Originally uploaded by Whatsinablog?.

Seems as Flickr is more me-friendly this morning. And not only that, I'm posting this from within Flickr. Now that's a nice touch I wasn't aware of.

I've also spent some time snooping around in the "advanced" settings of Blogger, and to my delight I see it's possible to pretty much customize everything. Now there's a project to get into.

Flickr-schmickr

So what's with this Flickr business anyway? I only resently descovered Flickr, like one week before the now infamous Yahoo!-overtaking. So tonight I desided to give it a testrun. After getting through all the initial getting-a-username-and-password-yahoo I was ready to upload some photos. But what? I resently cleared my entire hd to do a fresh install of Tiger, making sure I backed up every little tidbit. Apparently I didn't back up my montages. Which happened to be what I wanted to share with the webulation. After a lot of spotlighting around on my external hd's and dvd-roms I ended up locating them by looking through old iPhoto libraries using the Photoshop imagebrowser. Eventually I was ready to some uploading. I used the Flickr Uploader which I for some reason allready had downloaded at some earlier point. But it just kept crashing on me. So I go for the webbased uploader on flickr.com. Which after a hell of lot of waiting told me some error had occoured. In other words never got uploaded. Bah! I don't know what the exact error read, because I closed the window so damn quick when it didn't work. Aaanywho - I now went over here at blogger.com to start this - my first blog, to rant about it. And I that thought blogs were getting outdated now that everyone and their dog has a blog.

I'll give this uploadingbusiness another go tomorrow.

/rant