Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Migrating from my old website

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So this is going to take me quite some time, and some of the posts will seem a bit out of context, I suppose, but I think I’m going to copy all of my posts from my old website over to this one. The information hanging out there is quite old and, I dare say, in need of a face lift.

So when you see articles in the distant archives over here that seem a little… odd, this is why. Also, please bear with me while I migrate those posts by hand. It’s going to be quite a slow process.

Update

So the dividers you see here don’t render correctly in Internet Explorer, though they’re “OK,” so I’m not going to fix them. Get a better browser. Furthermore, I’m maybe 40% or so done migrating old posts to the new blog. I must say that I really like the template I’ve got here. Not just because I wrote it; I think it works well. I’ve made some tweaks for code and for block quotes, but all in all, it’s pretty nice. Enjoy!

Update, part two

I found a relatively elegant hack to force MSIE to load an additional stylesheet using document.createStyleSheet() and some simple object checks. Since MSIE is the only browser to set both navigator.systemLanguage and navigator.userLanguage it’s actually a simple yet accurate check to see who’s using MSIE without having to meddle with the catastrophe that is the User Agent string.

So all said and done, now the divider nodes render correctly in MSIE, despite its backwards interpretation of width: and margin: auto properties.

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Sunday, May 28, 2006

“Cupertino Pro” template

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Good morning everyone! It is indeed morning across the entire United States by now, which means I should have gone to sleep quite some time ago.

Regardless, I finally jumped onto the Blogger boat today, but I wasn’t happy with the themes I saw at the beginning, so I’ve created my own. In honor of one of the coolest computer companies out there, and my summer residence, I have decided to call it “Cupertino Pro.” If you look at the MacBook Pro website, you’ll see why the color sheme alone gives cause to the name.

It’s ridiculously late here by now, so I’m off to bed. I just thought I’d drop a semi-meaningful post before I went. Good night!

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