Monthly Archives: November 2008

StopIE6.com

I have implemented on this blog a little bit of a banner that will show up if you happen to be using Internet Exploder 6 or lower.  It will tell you about how you are ruining the quality of life for potentially thousands upon thousands of web developers.  It will tell you that you should consider understanding the problem by going to StopIE6.com.  If you have your own personal site and would like to do the same, feel free, just make sure that you do it kindly.  We don’t need to be jerks, but we need to give a little love to the users who just might not know that the internet could look better than it does right now in Good Ole’ IE6.

Simple code for adding the banner are available at the StopIE6 site.

Mr. Handy Man

I have been doing home repair or maintenance type things the last couple weekends.  I told Jessica not to make other plans and just dove into the mounting pile of things that needed attention.  So far this is what I have done:

  • Install dishwasher
  • Install Air Gap for dishwasher to prevent backflow issues
  • make cabinet divider and paint it
  • Fix gate valve (I actually used a MAPP torch to sweat some pipes) that leads to sprinkler system
  • Install pot lid drawer
  • Fixed some hinges on a cupboard door
  • Cleaned the garage

So, yeah, its nice to clear out a tiny bit of the honey-do list.

International Super Model Disaster Averted

In case you didn’t know it British singer Seal and German Super Model wife Heidi Klum announced before the November election that they would leave the United States if McCain won [source].  Because if there’s anything that sways American voters it is the threat of foreign celebrities leaving the country [they do have two children who are US citizens].  When you can charge as much as these two do for shows, appearances, and modeling I think its pretty safe to say that they could live in Mexico, fly to work every day, and still not panic about their finances.

I’m grateful that Senator Obama is now President Elect Obama because its rather clear that Senator McCain’s impact on world entertainment would have been devastating.  It’s nice to know that Obama has the Seal of aproval from at least one super model.

Cats are for Sissies

We don’t have a cat.  I’m allergic to cats.  However, my sister-in-law has a dog.  It is a Cocka-poo, which is a hybrid/mixed-breed and it pretty much looks like a poodle.  I’d post pictures, but he’s got black hair (not fur) and I haven’t gotten a great photo yet.  He brought a dead mouse into the kitchen and dropped it on the floor this evening for us.  We don’t need cats, we have a dog.

I’m going to go throw up now, thanks.

Within Two Weeks

I just unsubscribed to an email newsletter from the Kodak corporation.  One I did not expect to receive.  One that should NOT be coming to my work email address.  The fine folks there made me jump through hoops to unsubscribe from their email, something that should be simple to do.  The ’email preferences’ part of their site didn’t even offer me the opportunity to unsubscribe, but their privacy section did offer me a link, in smaller print, to a place to insert multiple email addresses to unsubscribe from.

I got the ‘unsubscribed’ email to confirm the unsubscription.  It told me that I’d most likely be unsubscribed within two weeks.  I think that’s because the squirrels have to carry the message out from the large oak tree that the server is running in and carry the unsubscribe request to the carrier pigeons who fly to the coast where they then give it to gophers who burrough into Kodak’s secret email spamming center to have the name removed.  That can take time.  But two weeks?  That’s silly.