Archive for May, 2005

CSS troubleshooting guide

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Being someone who has switched (quite successfully, I might add) to entirely CSS-based layouts, I get a lot of people asking me CSS questions. Well, I’m tired of answering them, so here’s a step-by-step guide to solving your CSS problems.

Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Somehow, I ended up getting exposed to a lot of classic films when I was a child. In some cases, as with “Citizen Kane,” I just didn’t get it. Others, like this film, left a strong impression. And it holds up, even some twenty years after I first saw it, and nearly fifty years after [...]

Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

I just watched this early film from the master of suspense.

Weekend work

Monday, May 16th, 2005

My dad came over Saturday to help me with some stuff on the Ghia. On the list was: Figuring out why it wasn’t starting, fixing the automatic choke, checking the idle, and some other minor things.

Electrical mayhem

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

I got the electrical issues sorted out yesterday. The turn signals were broken, and the emergency flashers had quit as well.