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Saturday, May 30, 2009

An operating system by any other name

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Palm might have a few problems due to its webOS's name. How many people would want their phone powered by huevos? It's been commented on it before, so that goes to show people do notice.

Then again, it might be a hell of an advertising campaign: “Palm Pre, powered with balls!”

Monday, May 25, 2009

To combat the swine flu, time-traveling has been created

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So I came across this advertisement banner (shown is a small section of it), with an alarming photo of people wearing surgical masks (do those even make a noticeable difference), and big, alarming, attention grabbing red letters which read, in Spanish, “16085 contagions, 125 deaths” and then in small letters “estimated through May 31st”.

Now, today is the 25th. I’m glad they managed to invent a time machine to travel to the future to collect statistical data, but that time machine could be put to better use going back in time to prevent the kid from licking that piggy.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The perils of using display: table for layout

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When using display:table (with the related table-row and table-cell) to set up columns for a layout, don’t forget to set the vertical-align property. After a while it finally dawned on me why would the padding-top of both columns seemed to be linked to each other and to the margin-top of each column’s first element: say hello to vertical-align: baseline. Change it to something more appropriate for what you're trying to do, maybe top.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Chomp!

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Mario's Chain ChompThose Chain Chomps. What a miserable existance. Constantly lounging towards something, never getting there. Everynow and then resting a bit, pacing back and forth just to try again and again and again and again. That’s what they do.

Makes you wonder.