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May 2005
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If you’ve been to church, you probably heard the Lord’s Prayer.
If you go every week (I don’t, something about having to believe in God keeps me away), it might be beginning to sound like a broken record.
Okay, poor joke. I found this on the way to school yesterday morning, and it made me laugh.
Perry Como is actually quite a good artist, other than in this case…
Magic Moments • The Look Of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection • Perry Como
I’ve played around with CSS for the last couple of hours, and have finally got my RSS/RDF links to be rendered like icons (with a border and so on).
It took me ages to figure it out, but I was only able to change the background colour, until I removed the <li> tags from the links - that was overriding the ability to change border and text colour.
I then spent a couple more hours trying to make the same thing happen for the Search and Post Comment buttons, before discovering that Safari, and Camino, don’t support changing the look of form buttons. And I’m not going to bear using IE to test it under…I’ll live with the images I’ve made (for now).
What would be cool is to make all of the elements of Connections work in CSS - like the top and bottom bits of the sidebar boxes, and so forth.
Well, the bits than can be made by CSS, anyway.
Stupid cats fightin’ outside our window again. Seems to be happening most nights now.
I went outside, and they were literally right outside the bedroom window.
If it gets to be a problem, I may have to kill them.
Seriously, when I went out with the torch, they just stopped, mid fight, like schoolkids. And walked away. “We weren’t doing anything, sir.”
[I've disabled Trackbacks & Pingbacks on this post, it has been getting hammered lately.]
We went and saw Revenge of the Sith last night, at the Capri Cinema, on Goodwood Road. I’ll begin by saying how cool that building is! Built in 1940, most of it is still the original, or near to it, and I love it.
A shame I can’t say the same about the film.
To be fair, about one minute into the film, I was already hating it, but that was because of the dickhead sitting about 3 seats across from me. Before the movie had even started, he was laughing a stupid, high pitched, inane laugh at things that weren’t funny. Initially, I thought “hey, this guy has just had his mate tell him a really funny joke”, as it was in one of the little ads at the start that weren’t remotely funny.
Then, when the movie began, and he laughed at everything (like each time young jedi were called “younglings”). It made me uncomfortable, and also made me not want to laugh at anything in the film, for fear of being like him. You should be allowed to kill people for this sort of thing. (I must say, at one stage I turned to Jaq and said “Maybe he’s retarded”. But retarded people aren’t this bad…)
So the film began, and like many people have said, it was pretty slow. Sure, the initial battle scene was intense, but it was kind of repetitive. The original trilogy had short combat scenes, sandwiched between sections of real plot and character development.
Oh, and real acting, too. None of this wooden bullshit that Hayden Christiansen seems to only be capable of. Maybe it’s just too hard to act in front of a blue screen.
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Is it possible to have images not inline in ecto - that is, spanning more than one line?
In short, no. To do it like this page is, you’ll need to hand edit the HTML code (which almost removes the beauty of ecto), and put in a table. Just placing the photo and text inside a |
Update: A better method can be found at Using CSS to replace Tables.
I didn’t realise this until last night, but it’s easy to split a post into several pages, use the following:
<!–nextpage–>
I wonder if there’s a setting in ecto to automatically paginate…
Yay! I’ve fixed the Search function so it works. I hadn’t changed the action tag to read "{$Smarty.server.PHP_SELF}", which it needed to be in order to work.
What I want to do now is make the previous and next page links not have the words previous post, and next post, just the title and the double-arrows.
Also, the Latest Posts does not seem to be updating…I’ll try to fix this.
Tue 24th May 2005
Thoughts on the Probability of Existence
Posted late evening, filed under Philosophy.This was written in response to a Year 12 Philosophy essay, title “The Probability of Existence”, early in 2004. I’m posting it here, as I thought I’d already sone so, but was unable to find it.
There seems to me to be little doubt that, in some sense, we exist. Since, as Descartes suggested, the fact we can think, we must exist. Cogito ergo sum.
But what of the idea of our type of existence? Is our perception of our environment real? Is our environment real? On first appearance, as Chas suggests, we observe reality, and there must be truth to it. Or, on closer examination, there must be some kind of existence. According to logic, something must either have a quality, or not have a quality. This seems reasonable, but in fact such a simple proposition can lead to a paradox.
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The Advertiser, great newspaper as it is (that was sarcasm) has been plugging Sudoku puzzles of late. For the uninitiated, a sudoku puzzle is a 9×9 grid, that is broken up into 9 smaller 3×3 squares.
Each row, column, and 3×3 grid contains all of the digits 1-9, and (obviously) each row, column and small grid contains each digit only once. The trick is to work out which ones go where.
It’s all about logic, and working out which digits will not fit. So, I thought I would write a small python program to do it. I was prompted to do this by a puzzle I was working on on the way home, and I thought to myself “this puzzle appears to not have enough information for me to continue”. So, I started marking 9 marks in each box, showing which values could fit and not fit into each box. This was time consuming, but should be easy enough to do programmatically.
Once you have this down, it’s simple to see if there are any boxes where only one value can go, or any rows, columns or squares where there is only once slot a particular digit can fit. And my program did just this. (I actually made an object-oriented one, that uses classes for cells, and puzzles, and methods for checking rows, columns, squares, etc).
But, I seem to be missing one logical leap. The first puzzle I tried got solved with a few iterations of my program, but the other two I brought home get stuck. And one of these was one I solved earlier today, so I cannot recall how I was able to make the leap of logic my program cannot.