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I Didn’t Know I Knew That”
DM of the Rings CXVII:
Safari
Safari, the Mac browser, is now available on Windows. This is great news. I test this site on IE, Firefox, and Opera, but until now I’ve never had any way to test and see how this site would look for Mac users.
It turns out the site looks pretty wonky on Safari. The individual post headers are not arranged properly. Is this the fault of Safari or my wacky CSS “skills”? It’s hard to tell. Still, it would be nice if the site was presentable for everyone.
DM of the Rings CXVI:
But They Don’t Fit in My Backpack!
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But They Don’t Fit in My Backpack!”
Several Things
- Yes, I renamed yesterday’s comic. I’d already used “Misunderstandings Abound” about 85 strips ago.
- Someone requested this. I don’t know why:
Easily done.
- I’m still reading all comments, even if ‘m not participating. Thanks so much for all the nice things everyone has had to say.
- I have many entries half-written, but nothing ready to post. I actually expected this to be a post-heavy week, but I’ve been sidetracked which is why the site has been barren for the last few days. (Aside from the comics.) My distraction is due to reasons too mundane to even bring up. It’s nothing you haven’t read a hundred times before on other blogs. Try to imagine I’m doing something really exciting and dangerous instead of posting. For example:
Posting will be light this week because Vin Diesel and I are going to skydive onto a mountain and ride down on our snowboards while playing though The Ghost Tower of Inverness!!!
This way, the dead space on the blog will be that much more interesting than some lame post about mundane distractions.
DM of the Rings CXV:
Misunderstandings Compound
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Misunderstandings Compound”
DM of the Rings CXIV:
The Book of Exalted Screwups
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The Book of Exalted Screwups”
Photosynth demo
Reader Telas sent this link along. It’s a demo of some new software. As a professional software developer myself, I feel I need to add my own unique viewpoint and share my expert opinion: Oh holy crap wow!
That really is cool. The ability to visually cruise through different media and zoom in and out looks like something truly useful. I’ve seen many misguided attempts to visualize a bunch of files, but I’ve never seen any that looked like more than a gimmick. They don’t give the system specs for the machine performing the demo, so I suspect it’s some overpowered monster with a hojillion kabillion megabytes of memory, but if such a thing could ever run that smooth on a machine owned by mortals, I’d get it in a second.
(I will say that things like this make me want to hang up my hat as a programmer. There are some frighteningly brilliant people out there, and if I dedicated the rest of my life to honing my skills I doubt I could come within cruise missile range of something like this.)
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