No longer an Insignificant Microbe!
Wahoo!
I've made it all the way up to Slithering Reptile as of today. Yay! I've finally evolved.
Topic
Geek/Tech
A collection of 242 issues
Linkables
Places worth visiting:
The Pepys Project: "a happy little index of blogs, diaries and journals from around the world." Ever wondered who's blogging from Antarctica, or the Caribbean, or Asia? Go find out. Or visit a random blog from around the world.
The Ageless project: "
Right handed
Finished converting the site to having a sidebar on the right. Still poking about in the style sheet, but pretty much finished now.
New layout
Outside the footer, not a table statement in sight!
All I need to do now is convert 40+ pages to using a table-free, CSS 2 column layout. Thanks go to glish.com's CSS layout, which I have gratefully snaffled, to BrainJar.com for the CSS positioning tutorial, and
Big change of URL thingy
This blog has moved. The new URL is:
http://www.quantumtea.com/blog/
Please change your links! I'll be emailing the people I know link here, and the blog will remain here for a week, but the updates will all be at the new URL.
I see you
In praise of roaches
The humble roach is a much maligned creature, and it's high time to point out some of its virtues. Roaches will never steal the lawn mower from your back garden. Roaches will never send spam with your domain as the return address. Roaches will never forget to update
Queen of my domain
Some husbands get you flowers, which don't last long. Mine gets me a domain, quantumtea.com. It got connected sometime today, and I love it! Thank you!
Internet worm
BBC News reports a new internet worm spreading across the net, MSBlast.
On infected machines the malicious program also launches an attack against the Microsoft site that holds a software patch that keeps the worm out. Security firms say the design of the worm is hampering its spread but warn
Bwah?
The Java site is down. Java.sun.com is down. I finally have a really good reason to upgrade to JDK 1.4.2 and the whole benighted site is down!
JDK 1.4.2 introduces the Preferences API, which gets you away from Properties objects and into a whole
Wireless access sofa
Happy Fourth of July!
I'm blogging from the sofa. No wires, no nothing, except the occasional crackle from the speakers when the laptop talks to the wireless box upstairs. Totally painless install on my part, because Hubby did it for me, including the part where two blue boxes