Everynow and then I get something stuck in my head I can't get rid of until I do it. Usually it's some stupid little tweak for my site that nobody's gonna either care about or understand. The latest was a banner for the beer review website. Probably took a good 4 hours to figure out how to clip all the photo's and go through a few preliminary mock up's. A lot of that time was spent finding the right font and figuring out what exactly I wanted to happen. Not to mention the program I was using for animating gif's wasn't exactly very user friendly. Couldn't even enter the hex codes for the colors directly. Had to do all that in photoshop and then paste it into the animation using a custom palette. Something else you probably don't care about...finally fixed the css style sheet so that the hover color wasn't the same as the background. Meaning that when you put your mouse over a link, it no longer dissapears. Like I said, stupid little things that I think help make a better web experience. Jen's mom shipped some "forgotten" christmas presents to her yesterday. Inside was this little guy:

Now, i'm not sure who the toy's for the cats or me, but these are so cool it's sad. :) I've been having this annoying glitch with Outlook 2002 where it keeps blocking the *.url files I keep forwarding to myself at home for publication on my site. So a quick google site turned up this solution courtesy of Slipstick Systems: Outlook 2003, Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2000 SP3 (but not Outlook 98 or earlier Outlook 2000 versions) allow the user to use a registry key to open up access to blocked attachments. (Always make a backup before editing the registry.) To use this key:
Run Regedit, and go to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security (change 10.0 to 9.0 for Outlook 2000 SP3 or to 11.0 for Outlook 2003) Under that key, add a new string value named Level1Remove. For the value for Level1Remove, enter a semicolon-delimited list of file extensions. For example, entering this: .mdb;.url would unblock Microsoft Access files and Internet shortcuts. Note that the use of a leading dot was not previously required, however, new security patches may require it. If you are using "mdb;url" format and extensions are blocked, add a dot to each extension. Note also that there is not a space between extensions. Rock on! works like a charm. There's no reason in the world why microsoft couldn't have just put an option in the configuration to disable this.
Links? Why yes thank you:
- 2 for one deal, shoot a robber kill a serial rapist.
- FBI says watch out for fake tsunami relief scams.
- Great mobile homes of Mississippi. oh yeah, one last thing. I downloaded this great program today called Wallpaper Master. See I wanted to have a different wallpaper come up every time I boot my computer (I have a lot of really cool ones) and this does the job very nicely even with dual monitors. Highly recommended.