Random links

Clear Channel's Tulsa stations
Bamboozled By Ads (tompaine.com)
An astonishing set of photos
Semi-fluff piece on civil liberties.
Editor's Cut. Zero idea why I flagged this as something to link.
An LMB post I particularly enjoyed about american attitudes.

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Some day when I look back on my time at TU one of the things I'll remember most fondly are my weekly operations meetings. They always go a little like this: Usually I am late so everyone's already in the conference room and talking. If I'm really late they are already talking about business. If I'm just a bit late they are usually just bullshitting. The meetings almost always include someone (usually Darren, Trent, or I) taking a cheap shot at Dale (my boss). He always has a quick and fitting response. We will then proceed to talk about the current issue at hand (this week: online faculty evaluations). This is usually followed up by Dale bringing up the dreaded Thing No One Wants to Talk About (this week: the fact we may get railroaded in to hosting some kind of .net app, more typically something Oracle-related). At this point we then have either uncomfortable silence or start directly in to awkward discussion (with the end result of making us look like we hate everything that's ever brought to us). This step usually includes Darren's official Long Winded Response of the day. Finally, we wrap up by discussing other things (read: things we actually need to deal with)... this usually includes Clark getting permission to buy something. At last, infused with a new sense of purpose, we return to our offices and labors.

Good times are had by all.

Extra

Sorry about all of the layout changes. I'm just messing around trying to get something I don't hate. It's not working.

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fire... smoke on the horizon
m4dd4wg
get fixed
loop, I think you should think about a fixed width for your main page because of the "invisible entry problem." I think you set the width for a div or a table, the entries will show up. If I set the window size any larger than 800px, however, the entries disappear, since it doesn't know how to spread.
loophole
Another test.

The page renders correctly under Opera7.1/XP (and quickly, as well)

loophole
Curiouser and curiouser...

Looking at it under IE6/xp I see the problem. What's weirder is that if I minimize and restore it it renders properly. Bug much? I suspect the problem stems from trying to set the margin property for the front page links. The behavior for the margin property of an inline element is defined in a very convoluted manner in the spec. It could also be the line height property. I'll mess with it when I get back next week.

loophole
The CSS

Thanks for trying to take a look, man. The CSS can be found at: http://loophole.morpheus.net/hs_static/hs.css.

m4dd4wg
front page still broken
I still have to mouse-over to see the links to daily entries. I couldn't find your CSS file to try and diagnose it, but it seems like a weird problem.
loophole
I usally break comments...

Any time I mess with the scripts.

beanie
About the layout...
I'm not sure about the red in the background yet-- I kinda  liked the salmon...  :)
loophole
Thanks...
Good idea. Is this (as of 5:20p 4/16/03) any better?
loophole
Have I broken the comments yet?

Hrmmmm...

m4dd4wg
auuuuuuuu jus!
Comments is in the house!
m4dd4wg
the fire in the sky
Regarding layout, I would suggest you put the administrativa (sp?) in a sidebar on the right. I accessed the site yesterday from a machine with a relatively low resolution, and all your entries were "below the fold."
loophole
CSS whine

It seems counterintuitive to me that floated block elements do not alter the vertical size of their parent element. How do web developers put up with this stuff.

I guess it's back to reading the CSS spec =/

loophole
Maybe I misunderstood...

If you look at the actual html I have a body with a background of red. The body contains one DIV (main) with a border, margin, some padding, and a white background. All of the links are the same red as the body background, both before and after clicking. The main DIV is where the actual content lives.

It is rendering more or less the way I expect it to in mozilla. I will try and test it with some other browsers later this evening.

m4dd4wg
where'd the cheese go?
I'm on my 19" Monitor at home, but I think that's a more sensible layout. Two issues: in MSIE 6, the entries don't appear until I mouse over them and the title doesn't appear at all. I'm not sure if you need the sidebar in the individual entries either. CSS is a good idea with a strange implementation.
m4dd4wg
CC Doesn't Even Try.
I looked at the page of Clear Channel's Tulsa properties, and noticed that the KISS 92.1 logo looked strangely familiar. That's because they use the same damn logo in Austin. Operational efficiencies, I guess.
loophole
The sidebar...

I wasn't sure about the sidebar in all the entries. Looking at it both ways I think I don't want it. It really interrupts the flow of some of the entries.

I'm not sure why you can't see the entry links. It may be because I had a background color specified... which looked weird anyway. They're back to being more or less normal links again. Hopefully that will help.