the IDIOT

[update: i'll leave this post up, but experimenting indicates that linking to an external style sheet in eBay auctions ends up with too many browser configurations entirely unable to see the auction description. i recommend against it.]

as huge as eBay is, i’m surprised at the scant information via google on using style sheets (CSS) in auctions. if you googled your way here, understand that i’m not a web weenie; i only know that the method i’ve arrived at through experimenting appears to work pretty well. it may be a bunch of unnecessary crap, but i suspect not. (more…)

i finally converted to firefox last year because it worked so much better with blogger.com, even though i liked IE6 just fine. but even on my semi-bitching computer, firefox was often killing the entire system whenever on a page with flash. even minimized, the CPU would stay at 100%, locking up everything except for a brief respite every 20 seconds or so. even giving it a low priority from task manager barely helped. [if you don't want to hear me bitch anymore about this, skip to the next to last paragraph for the solution.] (more…)

as the 7 readers of this blog know (up from 5, proud to announce), i’ve been a strong supporter of MS and its internet explorer, puzzled by the rabidity of some netscape and firefox fans.

after finally checking out firefox last month, i decided to use it for blogger.com (my blog’s front end), but that’s all, since it’s at least twice as fast as IE at blogger.com. i didn’t add it to my surf corral because of security or other hype; logic and human nature ensured that firefox would become a bigger target as it caught on and was scrutinized more seriously. so i’m not surprised by this announcement, but i hope it slows down some of the MS bashers who’ve used more venom than sense.

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after using firefox heavily for the last couple of days, i’m dropping it to go back to IE. the hype for firefox has been far out of proportion to its abilities. even adjusting for new methods, i find that firefox slows me down. (more…)

The old media can’t tell any story without looking for an angle. They like controversy, of course. I had one journalist ask me once for an interview to try to stir up some controversy with another journalist, and when I refused, he said that was the only story he was interested in. And there is an article today about Firefox with the headline, “Teen is co-creator of Firefox browser.” (more…)