My one little adjustment to the alignment of text in paragraphs ended up ballooning into something far more extensive than I’d ever originally intended – but all to the good. In addition to the recently mentioned changes to my personal site, I expanded them out to the Inferno Enterprises site as well. The main changes …
Some time I ago I wrote a journal entry on the bad journalism of Global News over a report on the disappearance of Cecilia Zhang – and included a copy of the email I sent to the station. This time, I noticed a discrepency in a report on Global National with Kevin Newman: Subject: Mis-reporting …
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After changing the text justification, it made it obvious that the padding between the comment boxes and the actual paragraph text wasn’t big enough. So, I set out to change things. At the same time, I wanted to make sure that, in the future, I could easily modify what I’d done. In doing this, I …
I’ve tweaked the stylesheet used here (by both my personal pages, and the main Inferno Enterprises site) a bit. I’ve been noticing recently that all of the books I read have the first line of each paragraph indented and that, all text is justified. Previously, I’d been been following the indenting but having everything left-aligned …
I just got “the phone call” telling me that I’ve been offered a job I was recently interviewed for. I’ll be doing technical phone support for Microsoft business networking issues via Volt, a consulting company that hires some of their personnel. (Although I’ll be working in one of the Microsoft buildings in Mississauga.) Although I’ve …
I’m sure you’ve been there. You’re on a train and, as it pulls in to your stop, the announcer says, “This train is out of service. All passengers must leave the train.” Have you ever wondered what happens if you don’t leave the train? Where it goes, or what the people who are on it …
I’ve spent the last several days coming up with my own phpBB modification so that Private Messages can be encrypted and sent to other board members – then decrypted by the recipient, so long as they provide the same encryption key that was originally used. This exercise was fun, tiring, and frustrating all at the …
Here’s an excerpt from a news article that I just read: “A computer expert accused of killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet went on trial for murder Wednesday at a court in central Germany.” I’m not sure which aspect of this is more disturbing – the …