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Friday, March 5, 2004 |
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I installed proCreate Painter Classic on my PowerBook this afternoon. It shut all my executing programs down, everything except Finder. What kind of moron writes an installer that does that? 11:33:50 PM 
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Jill was giving me a shoulder massage when she spotted a name scrawled on a bit of paper on my desk. "Who's this 'Lucinda Grande'?" she asked, in a possessive tone of voice. I couldn't stop laughing. "Just a minute, I'll show you," I said, and fired up Freeway. "Oh. She's a font isn't she. You're going to blog this aren't you?"
"Oh, yes." |
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Why don't images show up in the Day page? Is it a relative paths problem? Oh, come on! The radio.macros.imageRef() works in the Day page, but not in the Home page, while the img src=... works in the Home page and not in the Day page.
Argh, now the macro works in both. What a pain in the fundament. |
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Wow, update on V838 Monocerotis. Wired have got an article on it with a link to a sequence of photos showing the light pulse emitted by the star moving outwards. It looks like a dirty brown rose opening. 2:14:24 PM
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foobar and the Meaning of Life. Someone on the www-validator mailing list has just asked what 'FOO' means. Probably more commonly known as 'foo' or 'foobar'. As the great philosopher Satchmo once said when asked "What is Jazz?"..."If you have to ask, then you don't know". Jings, next people will be asking for the rules of Mornington Crescent :-) [Scottish lass seeks...]
I was a geologist in a former life. We used to have a generic term for certain kinds of rock; fubarite. The name was derived from "F*cked up beyond all recognition." |
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Ah, ha! It looks like UserLand doesn't like .tifs
I found the Event log and Folder pages, which showed that the files had been upstreamed. For some reason, they weren't downloading. I saved them for the web in Photoshop, cut the filename down to size, updated the URLs and there they are. I didn't see anything in the User Guide about problems with certain file types. |
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Hmm, this is getting really annoying. How do you flush your local images to the community server? According to the User Guide, it's supposed to happen automatically every 10 seconds. Well I can see two Fracture images when I'm editing, but they don't show up in my Home page. Upstreaming is turned on and yes, I have refreshed my browser...
I had the same problem with Grumpy.jpg. After several attempts i went to my Home page again and it took ages to load. When it finally displayed, there was the picture. Is the image directory upstreamed at 30 minute intervals? |
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I just coughed up $10 for Fracture. Zoe and I spent about an hour watching it draw. We saw an army of girls in pink dresses marching across a yellow plain in one screen. Another one looked like an H.R. Geiger rendering of an alien's bone sutures. Stupidly, I hadn't read the manual so I didn't know how to save the images. Now I do; here are a couple of them.
If you've got a Mac then buy it. If you're stuck on a PC then go to the Fracture gallery and eat your heart out.
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This is the weirdest picture I've ever seen on APOD. For some strange reason, I get the feeling that it's coming to get me. Too much Star Trek as a kid. 11:48:20 AM
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Every now and then I get a slap in the face from one of the kids. I don't mean literally, well, actually that happens quite a lot. Hurts too, sometimes. No, I'm referring to those little events that tell you your babies have just grown up a little bit more. Last night I was trying to get Johnny, who's recently turned 3, to come down the corridor to have his teeth brushed. I stood in the bathroom with his tooth brush locked and loaded, and called for him. "I'm just playing," was the response. I tried a few more times, then resorted to, "I've got something for you..." That didn't work either, his curiosity didn't get the better of him. Then I tried his technique, to see if it would work on him. I said, "Johnny, I want you," in that really plaintive tone that he uses when he's manipulating an uncooperative mother. Quick as a flash, and in a very suspicious and severe tone, he said, "What for?"
Jill and I fell about laughing. "Aw, our baby's growing up," she said, once she was able to talk again. |
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