Monkinetic Weblog

Last week I ran into an IE6/7 CSS bug, but in 5 hours of research did not find a solution I liked. In a nutshell, IE incorrectly implements, or incorrectly interprets, the CSS 2.1 float spec:

Apple is going to need to up their security staff, esp. with a"real OS" on the iPhone. Exhibit A: an iPhone browser vulnerability:

For the love of all that is holy, this is AWESOME:

>Thus is the pattern for the night established. A couple of new songs, a couple of oldies and shiny happy old me putting in a prize winning performance in the dancing while sitting down world championships. ... Everything else we don't know, though, is pretty much flawless, a raucous, breathtaking hybrid of the best bits from Reckoning and Monster.

Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain:

So, after hemming and hawing for (checks Wikipedia) oh, 9 years, I finally signed up for NetFlix account tonight.

Gooooooooooaaaallll!!!

I found myself today re-titling, converting to markdown, and tagging about 150 blog posts that came over from this site's days on Editthispage.com, when each day was a post and every day was titled "Redmonk.News". While doing so I got to thinking about how I attribute links to various sources. Mostly I used the common idiom, the word "via" and the name of the blogger/source, with a link to the site or post where I found the link/idea.

In the grandest spirit of traffic-generating posts (via Dustin @ Bajooter), Creative Bits tells us about 7 Cool New Features of Google Analytics.

Sweet!

Updated from my last list, now that the "work of nearly indescribable beauty" has been released:

So yesterday was our Dish Network installation. It was scheduled for between 8 and 12, so I got permission to work remotely yesterday so I could be around. Well, around 11:00 I got a call from the installation dispatcher saying that my installer was running late, and that he would be at the house around 2:00 PM. Annoyed but used to this kind of thing in general, I waited.

My lifestream site, , is now powered by tumblr, instead of my home-brewed Rails app. I never got the Rails app updating like I wanted, and then over the weekend it stopped responding at all. Since I started playing with lifestreams, so many good apps (tumblr, Jaiku) have come out that fighting with my own is not currently worth my time.

>Read this aloud and your inner ear, by itself, will be carrying out at least the equivalent of a billion floating-point operations per second, about the workload of a typical game console. The inner ear together with the brain can distinguish sounds that have intensities ranging over 120 decibels, from the roar of a jet engine to the rustle of a leaf, and it can pick out one conversation from among dozens in a crowded room. It is a feat no artificial system comes close to matching.

Three great things happen today! iPhone, Ratatouille, and my birthday! Yay!

DBSTalk posted an overview of a recent customer chat with Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen. One cool nugget: USB Storage support may finally come to Dish's DVR:

While checking out the site for Rands' new book, I ran across a year-old post (which I had read before) from Rands about the importance of The Cave to nerds (and men in general).

Since we're working on another adoption that will involve some very expensive travel, we had decided to start looking into deals that would help us rack up some mileage. So, Jodi found out that Dish offers some sort of mileage deal when you sign up. Cool, huh? Well, yes and no.

So yesterday, Jodi and I decided that we had had enough of being stuck in our Cox bundle, which - while being a pretty good deal - locks us into services we don't want and, after adding the HD services we want, pushes us into a price range that I'm just not comfortable paying.