Archive for August, 2005

What!

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

This is news to me; flag burning (and desecration) is illegal in Washington State.

IE 7.0 Beta Followup

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

So, I’m late with this followup. Oh well. The IE dev team has publically stated what CSS fixes are going into IE 7.0. As I mentioned, there were no CSS fixes of note in beta 1. But I have to wonder what’s going on up there in Redmond.

Daylight Savings

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Well, as predicted, Bush signed the bill extending Daylight Savings. What a retarded thing to do. With the stroke of a pen, hundreds of millions of electronic devices are rendered obsolete. Every single device which keeps time must now be updated to understand the new rules. This doesn’t sound too bad, but consider this: every [...]

Ignition is mostly done

Friday, August 5th, 2005

Got the new plugs & wires installed tonight. Pretty straightforward stuff, though feeding the #1/#2 plug wires between the fan shroud and intake manifold is sure no fun. Neither is gapping plugs, for that matter.
The old plugs were absolutely coated in black soot, which means I am (or was) running too rich. I think it [...]

The efficiency of CSS

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

CSS is more bandwidth-efficient than tag-soup. Period. It’s been discussed before, but I have some fairly unique data on the subject.