Category: General

This is just a test.

Well, I upgraded to Movable Type 2.21. It went pretty smooth except that all of my index file destination paths had leading slashes which strangely made Movable Type think they were absolute instead of relative paths. Removing those seems to have fixed the one problem I noticed. I haven’t been able to find anything about…

The CSS Panic Guide is a great online reference to CSS.

I put my page through an XHTML validator, and it had a problem with a lot of my links that include ampersands (&’s). The validator seems to think that they’re delineating the beginning of a character entity. I know that I could replace the ampersands with the entity code, but most of the time, I’m…

I want to read Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism when it’s not after midnight.

Looks like I fixed a CSS error that was causing the background color and image of my banner DIV not to show up. For those of you playing along at home, it turns out that while IE is happy to let you set a left and top position for a background image within the DIV,…

Not that you’d ever need to know about how MPEG-4 encoding works, but just in case you do. I got about half way through scanning it and realized I’d need to tackle it later when I had time to work through the particulars of what they were describing.

If you ever find yourself in the market for satellite equipment, you may want to avoid Orbitsat. I found the order process to be a nightmare. They asked for information that my mortgage provider didn’t need, and their customer service sucks. I would avoid them. There are much better companies out there that deserve my…

It seems that I’m alterna-energy boy lately, but what the heck. This stuff is cool. According to the article, some people are forecasting that California will be getting 20% of it’s power from localized fuel cells in the next decade. There’s got to be a way to make money off that somehow. Besides, it’s not…

This story from New Scientist looks promising. They claim around 40% efficiency in extracting hydrogen compared to 20% of common extraction systems. That’s still a good deal more costly than gasoline – which I think is around 80% efficient, but it’s getting there.