Archive for the ‘Solutions’ Category

I <3 Google

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Ok, it’s no big secret… what with all of their services and things like gmail, analytics and webmaster tools that they let us use for free, and the api’s that they let us use and mess about with their stuff.

Anyway, if anyone just so happened to visit my homepage today to see either a blank screen, or a message bearing “oops” will realise that I did something really clumsy and stupid. I accidentally over-wrote the homepage with a pile of blog php stuff! And my local copy was one from donkey’s years ago.

Admittedly, the homepage doesn’t contain much at the moment, in fact, it’s little more than a holding page… but still, I didn’t relish the idea of going back and doing it all again.

Thankfully Google’s cached pages saved my skin, I was able to pick up the entire source code, and hopefully it’s the latest version and I haven’t overlooked anything. Now I just need to find time to finish everything properly…

Edit: Didn’t realise that it was Valentine’s day tomorrow, oh how droll. So come on, show us your Google-Love (or Googlove, as I like to put it) and post a comment telling us why you luv Google too.

Ancient Chinese Cold Remedy

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

I’m feeling like poo. Blocked nose, bad headache, stiff, aching bones and other typical cold/flu-like symptoms are taking their toll on me. Coupled with a strange rash (that doesn’t disappear when pressed with a glass) and a nosebleed that feels like someone’s just turned on a tap in my nose really isn’t helping my near-hypochondriac tendencies.

Anyway, whilst I was being wimpy and lying in bed instead of working, I remembered this recipe for colds that my parents used to make when I was little. My aunt in Sheffield even sells it in her restaurant, although it’s not on the menu.

I say remedy… but it’s probably as much of a remedy as chicken soup, or honey and lemon in hot water. That is to say hot, comforting, and just makes you warm and cuddly.

Anyway, here we go:
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Mystery of the mysterious disappearing absolutely positioned elements (in IE)

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Thank god! I thought I was going crazy!

I was just about to give up and beg for help from the lovely people at CSSBeauty’s helpful forum.
http://cssbeauty.com/skillshare/discussion/636/

http://www.brunildo.org/test/IE_raf3.html