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Kids and TV
When I was a small kid, I had to worry about being able to change the TV station from channel 4 to channel 2. Or to channel 13. And how to get UHF. I just overheard my 5 year old son: “Grandma? Can you record that show?” I had to learn how to turn the [...]
Dell called back about the free upgrade
I just received a call and an e-mail confirming my free upgrade and installation of the Dell XPS-720 motherboard (I have a XPS-700 from when it first came out). So far so good.
The Mercedes Experience
Our Mercedes experience is less than perfect. In fact, a lot less than perfect. It is not an experience one wants to have if one can avoid it. We have the 2000 year model of ML320, the Mercedes SUV. Granted, it is a 7-year old car. But still, it is a Mercedes. It is supposed [...]
The Daleks are invading!
Daleks! Saw this on Boing Boing this morning. Awesome pictures here.
Bus time for Alberto Gonzales?
Alberto Gonzales gets tossed under the bus? Michael Chertoff is apparently going to be nominated as the replacement, papers and torture enhanced interrogation techniques for everyone?
Object replaces iframe (and does not work in IE7 for this use)
Making the Google embedded code XHTML Strict was pretty easy and involved replacing <iframe> with <object> and massaging some of the parameters. This works in Firefox and Opera. Naturally it does not work in Internet Explorer 7. There is a hack that might get it to work which I will keep fooling around with. The [...]
