31
Oct
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by Darren
Following on from my last post where I told you all, yes it was a very interesting post, about my hassle with the table tag, yeaterday I spent what seemed like a couple of hours with another coding problem.
I am doing the html interface for a CD ROM for work, eg I can do it cheaper than the firm who were doing it and as it is simply changing links and adding a few new ones it seemed like an easy job. However when I got into the code I realised I need to add a couple of sections based on what had been coped before. But could I find out which piece of code needed copying? Yep, same answer as the HTML Hell post. To make matters worse the issue is again to do with tables. I mean how difficult can it be to find the beginning of a section, copy it and then rename the text within? So perhaps a late night tonight and I may even revert to using my trusted Hot Dog 7.03 html editor to help me understand the structure.
The Times reviews didn’t hold anything worthy of a comment this weekend, but I did manage to catch Match of the Day – both 1 and 2. This does deserve a comment. I thought the aim of this program was to show football, however it seems that they are now trying to turn it into a seeding ground for untapped stand up comedy. It is like Saint and Greavsie without the aforementioned presenters, but equally unfunny. Dear BBC, please leave the football comedy to Fantasy Football.
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28
Oct
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Aaaargh. Ok I’m trying to set up a site with a table based layout and the firfox vs IE hassle has once again surfaced. I have it perfect in firefox but can I get it to layout right in IE? Can I ****! And can I understand what the problem is? Same answer!
I thought if you specified a table cell width it would stick to it, and in firefox it does, but in IE it doesn’t. Happily the tea isn’t going cold as I’m supping some stella but that isn’t the issue. (And no I’m not so tipsy I’ve done some obscure piece of coding – the coding I did was a few days ago).
But what is the solution? Well I’ll go and have a look and see if I can sort it. But at the same time I’m using the 2nd pc in the house and the monitor is playing up – although not sure if it is the monitor or the graphics card – it keeps flicking from normal size to a reduced size and it is annoying me.
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26
Oct
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by Darren
It must be the day for quoting The Times (I’m so livid I was almost tempted to put the ‘t’ in The as lower case in complaint). In an article talking about Harry Hill creating a TV programme for children the author, (who isn’t named on the online version – scared eh? You should be!) talks about their dislike of slapstick comedy. Ok slapstick isn’t to everyones taste and each to their own, I accept that. But when it comes to the following sentence that is a step too far. After a brief journey through comedy history, listing slapstick people who they find unfunny, they then state the following:
Their contemporary equivalents are the Chuckle Brothers who manage to be both
unfunny and decidedly sinister — and not in a good way
How could they diss the comedy gods of children’s TV! I may well have to write to Barry and Paul in a fit of outrage to demand that they sue for libel and then console them! How could the author say that they are sinister? What could be sinister about two middle-aged guys with northern accents, short hair, moustaches and who always hang around together?
The rest of the article is here
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26
Oct
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by Darren
Forgive me if I’m wrong but did anyone in the 80’s ever take Bananarama too seriously? For anyone who bought, and liked listening to, their records, I am sure that part of the appeal was that it was throw-away pop that didn’t take itself too seriously. Now I never bought any of their stuff but they were a laugh and there were many nights out that I found myself dancing along to their bland sound, both prior to the Pete Waterman era and during.
I read with interest the review of their new CD in The Times on Saturday and ended up not sure whether to laugh or let the tea go cold in despair at the reviwers comments
Read it here
The way the review ends by saying that their sound descends into
track after track of forgettable electro-pop that suffers from poor production and the pair’s weak singing
I am sorry but I seem to have missed something, surely that was the appeal of the group! They never were great singers, the music never was greatly produced (there is no argument as to whether Pete Waterman is anywhere near Trevor Horn when it comes to producing) and it always was forgetable electro pop that would never change the world. That was what made them the most successful girl group of the 80’s!
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21
Oct
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by Darren
So I am supposed to be working at home today and so when I sit down to turn on the PC and start working a strange thing happens. The PC already seems to be running – I’ll investigate that later – anyway when I try to log on nothing happens, it’s hung. So I restart and go through all the ‘you did not shut down your PC’ and scandisk malarky. Then when it finally gets ready to start I can’t log in. Well that would be an understatement. I can log in but the log in only takes me as far as the desktop picture and nothing more. So to solve things I have to run msconfig and fortunately I somehow get to the system restore option. Luckily there is a restore point a few days back and so nothing major gets lost.
However this all took over two hours to sort out – scandisk runs terribly slow, I really should clean up the PC – and so a days work has been lost, I will now take it as annual leave but the thing is, it is just a pain.
Stil I did manage to down a couple of nice cups of tea while waiting and sorting it out 
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