Brad Collins

African Or European Swallows?

Brad — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:15:46 +0000

I’m thinking they must be African swallows.

The Notorious Twitter Fail Whale

How To …

Brad — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:29:04 +0000

#1, sure. I can understand the curiosity about #2. But #3? I thought that was pretty widely known.

Suggestions at Google for "how to"

Widely known enough not to be the third highest entry in Google Suggest!

How Do You Know You’re In Hell?

Brad — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:03:26 +0000

When you die, if in the place you go after you die, you see anything like the Bill of Rights, you know you’re in Hell. Because a Bill of Rights in Heaven would be an affront to God; it would imply that He is untrustworthy. —Dr. Walter E. Williams, Rush Limbaugh Program, September 4, 2009

Fortran Programming II

Brad — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:25:55 +0000

Programming in Fortran is like being human: You can do it right, but most of the time you don’t.

I Still Do

Brad — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:04:24 +0000

A decade ago this evening at about ten minutes after seven o’clock, I said, “I will.”

I still do.

Luv you, Dearest.

Obligation

Brad — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:13:01 +0000

My inconsistency has no bearing on your obligation.

Sugar Scrub

Brad — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:21:34 +0000

I am reading Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS, and in it he encourages looking for Web design inspiration in places other than the Web: cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines, buildings, to name a few. (This is something I’ve done for some time now, but I’ve been making a more conscious effort of late, given his advice.)

This morning I picked up a tube of my wife’s facial scrub. I looked for anything interesting in the design on the front. Then I looked at the back, which contains, among other things, an ingredient list. I wasn’t scanning the ingredient list as much as my eyes just happened to fall on one word:

Saliva.

Saliva! They put saliva in facial scrub? I looked again.

Salvia.

Salvia officinalis (sage) leaf extract. Ah, helps to keep reading past the line break.

Arden, Hannah, Whatever

Brad — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:23 +0000

Our two-year-old has finally begun to talk and build a vocabulary. Folks who know about this kind of thing tell me that the American English R is one of the most difficult sounds for kids to learn to enunciate.

As you can imagine then, Whitby has a difficult time pronouncing his older sister’s name, Arden. So he pronounces it “Hannah.” A natural and logical approximation, I’m sure you’ll agree.

A Good Thing

Brad — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:44:10 +0000

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord. —Proverbs 18:22 (NKJV)

Hmm. Never says that about husbands. Coincidence?

Reason #10,754 To Execrate Internet Explorer 6

Brad — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:58:16 +0000

Ever seen this pop up in Internet Explorer 6 (or 7)?

This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?

You spend hours combing through server-side source, hours more combing through client-side source, and yet more hours sniffing and poring over headers, and nothing. Nothing HTTP when it should be HTTPS.

Well this could be your problem, yet another non sequitur brought to you by Microsoft:

This problem occurs if the Web page script calls the removeChild() method to delete a DIV element that references a background image. —http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925014

This only appears to happen when the style is inline. In other words, say you have something like this:


   Nee!

If you attempt to vaporize that div with removeChild(), you’re suddenly no longer secure.

Okaaay. Make sense to you? Makes sense to me!

Firefox, take me away!