Friday, February 23, 2007

Dear Microsoft

Gotta say this right up front:

Microsoft, I loathe you.

Apparently my site looks like ass in IE 7. If you are visiting my site using IE 7… I apologize and am so sorry. I’ll fix it this weekend. There is a whole little world/column o’ stuff over on the left side of the page that you can’t see. Again, my apologies and now I’d like to get back to ranting. Thx!

OK, look I’m humble enough to realize that my layout might suck and it actually may be my CSS coding problem and have nothing to do with the way IE interprets the code. Could be. I’ve been wrong plenty of times in my life. Just ask the kids about the time with the mangoes and the chocolate pasta. Plus, I know that I can be dense and not figure things out properly the first time. Or even the fifth.

But I’m also pretty sure that my CSS is vanilla and not awe inspiring or really even all that tricky. Three columns, header and footer. Nothing really goofy about it. There is an IE 6 “fix” in there, so who knows… And I can see from the apache logs that the stuff that is supposed to load over there on the left is loading from the server, but IE 7 ain’t rendering it. It’s also there when one does a “View Source” on the page.

I’m also sure that these Microsoft people are the same people who broke the box model way back with IE 5.5 and thus begat the IE 5 “box model” hack.

Now I’m all sweaty and grunting and bugged.

And I had a really funny story to tell, too. It was all about me and the time I almost got killed by a West Valley City, UT cop. An Arby’s sandwich figures prominently in the story so you know it will be good. But I can’t get to “the funny place” right now.

This is me, rolling my eyes, knowing that I have zero time to screw around with this crap right now. Or tomorrow.

grumble. grumble. grumble.

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Correspondence
• Help Wanted
• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• A Word from the Small Person in the House
• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

©2005-2008 Jon B. Deal All Rights Reserved. I'm not kidding around here, I know people who know other people who would be willing to beat you up or similarly infringe on your rights, should you happen to infringe on my rights.