Rick Hurst Web Developer in Bristol, UK

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Month: March 2003

alcohol powered laptops

Excellent – the battery in my laptop is now stone dead and I never got more than an hour per charge out of it at the best of times – a new one would cost me over £100 so i’m not going to bother.

According to this news story Toshiba are working on an alcohol powered battery due for release in 2004. Hopefully I can hang on for one of these!

portway jazz

trouser jazz on the portway montageTonight as I came out of work it was the first time it has been light this year, the sun was setting over the derelict warehouses on the horizon, and I realised that this was the perfect time to put my shades on and drive home down the portway listening to “trouser jazz” by mr scruff.

huge mushroom spotted on A4

imagine just for a second that you have been sat in front of a couple of flickering monitors for eight hours drinking coffee, then you wander outside and are as alarmed as I was to see this huge mushroom out of the corner of your eye, protruding from a roundabout.

huge mushroom?

safari and IE on mac display problems

on IE on a mac, the grey vertical subheading bar was expanding to fill the whole screen and clicking onto the lab menu item is causing safari to freeze..

fixed the IE problem – specified 12px widths to the grey box and the dynamically created boxes holding each letter.

looking into the safari problem…. CPU goes to 100% when you try to load anything within “the lab” section.

fixed! thanks to tim at twisty.com – he pinpointed it to a problem with the text-transform:uppercase property used on the heading selectors – safari didn’t seem to like applying it when some of the content inside was wrapped in divs and some not – if you remove the spaces, the problem was solved. I wanted to keep the spaces and so I moved that property to the individual divs surrounding each letter.

the same problem presumably doesn’t happen on the vertical submenu because I had already replaced all the spaces with “ ” because without doing that they weren’t creating any vertical space.

not so daily report

zeldman.com the daily report hasn’t been updated in days, as he is “on the road” and obviously not taking advantage of mobile technology to keep his site up to date while he’s hang gliding or whatever.

I feel lost, my routine has been broken – I feel like things are happening out there in web design which I don’t know about because Jeff Zeldman hasn’t told me about it.

starskiweb is now hypothecate.co.uk

starskiweb.co.uk has just become hypothecate.co.uk

the main reasoning was to move the emphasis away from mostly technology and web development based content to a broader field, but still mostly centred around digital media.

the word hypothecate was chosen because of the speculation and uncertainty surrounding the future direction of the internet, which I view as still being in it’s infancy ( more on this here).

All the old content remains, but I will try to confine most of my techie ramblings to the lab. The site will also be accessible from the old domain for the time being.