Obviously do one who reads this uses Internet Explorer or they would have mentioned (hopefully) that my little drop case trick doesn’t work in IE. This is the CSS I’m currently using: p.dc:first-letter { float: left; font-size: 2.5em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, Times, Verdana; line-height: 0em; color: #707070; } It looks as though IE7 does support the :first-letter pseudo class, but the box model is failing with the float: left....

I fully believe fan created guitar TABs are fair use. Someone might try to argue that the equivalent is someone going to see a play over and over and providing the transcript of the play on the internet. I would even fully entertain the argument that even that is fair use. The music publishing industry has in the past year or so really cracked down on sites that provided guitar TABs....

I was lucky enough to get out of work early today. Everything went pretty well on the AFB in prep for tomorrow’s testing, so I managed to head out to Pismo Beach, grab some BBQ, and walk around the beach for a bit. I hadn’t packed anything appropriate (didn’t think I’d have any daylight downtime), so I headed over to the local outlets, bought a new swimsuit and sandals, and enjoyed the sunshine....

When XFree86 restricted their license in 2004, the result was a fork into the dominant X window manager we know today – X.org. At the time, just about everyone was pissed off at XFree’s sheer arrogance. Thankfully xorg and freedesktop.org pulled everything together and in very short order (relatively speaking) all the major distributions swapped their X server. I mistakenly thought at the time that the progress in the X server would digress – that forks were disruptive to software development....

Has anyone else experienced this? When Ann and I were trying to book a flight to Mexico, we started looking around with expedia, travelocity, etc, using different search parameters, etc. After refreshing things, we wanted to go back to a deal we had seen earlier, so we entered those search terms… yet when the one we wanted came up, it had gone up in price about $100! We thought we were mistaken, so tried again....

While it is actually quite mild here along the central coast, Detroit was completely another matter – substantial snowfall in the middle of April. While it was actually quite nice looking out the windows during the wedding to see the snow coming down, I’m sure it wasn’t something Allen and Christine had banked upon. On Sunday we were planning on walking around the town of Birmingham (which, under much better weather would have been quite nice)....

Is it not so simple to ask for one integrated photography workflow tool? It really is about as bad as finding a good photography bag – the people designing them have such a narrow focus, they completely miss the boat. Let me define a few terms: NFA -- Narrowly Focused Application Describes a program that does one or a subset of things very well. However, there is little integration, even on a simplistic level to branch out to other facets of the workflow....

Back from a great (but disconcertingly cold) weekend in Detroit. It was a fantastic wedding and wonderful to see my friends, many of whom its been four years since I saw them last. Everyone is so spread out over the country it’s only at weddings that you manage to get everyone together. I hope to find some excuses to get everyone to fly out to California (maybe with the lure of Tahoe)....

Threshold’s new video from their latest album, Dead Reckoning. Isn’t it nice how a good rock band can make a good video? Only in Europe… Stupid eMpTyV. It’s a really great song – I can’t wait to get the CD.

First up and coinciding with the release of the last novel a few weeks later, we have v5 of Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix. Definitely the darkest of the series and by far the longest. It looks like David Yates is taking the director helm this time around, who I unfortunately know none of his previous work. I think he had a huge challenge with this one (more so than other the previous directors) because of the information not conveyed in Goblet of Fire and how much ground he has to cover with this one....