I got all kinds of goodies for the car today.

So Microsoft release Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1 today. I got a chance to play with it, and I really wonder what those guys up in Redmond are smoking.

2006/09/29: I bought a Mac several months ago, and switched back to Emacs. I can’t, at this point, confirm that the externaltools works as originally advertised.
I’ve been using Kate as my main text editor for a fair amount of time now. It’s quick, handles multiple files great, and has excellent syntax highlighting and indentation features. [...]

I’ve run into this damn bug every time I’ve tried to implement drop-down menus in CSS. I think dropdowns are a stupid idea in the first place, but clients will be clients.
The problem is that in some cases, KHTML doesn’t consider an inline position: relative element to be a positioned ancestor, and absolutely-positioned children aren’t [...]

Not much to report on the Ghia front. I’ve been shooting WD-40 into my passenger side heater box guide tube (the cable is stuck) every day for a week or two, and it still isn’t budging. I’m waiting for a fully reconditioned carburetor to arrive, which should solve several of my mechanical problems.