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Ruth unloading her summer tires Ruth ordered her Honda Civic on July 5th, 2008. It was finally delivered yesterday evening. Time to deliver: 231 days or 7 months and 16 days. Difficult to understand that Honda has just closed their factory in the UK, where Ruth’s Civic was manufactured, for four months, when . . . → Read More: Crisis? What crisis? You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be . . . → Read More: Gravators I have changed the template used for this site over the last week. And I have decided that I have spent enough of my life fiddling around with all sorts of hacks to fix the appearance of sites I have produced so that they appear correctly in Microsoft’s web browser. All versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 8 are extraordinarily poorly programmed. They wrongly calculate border widths of elements that make up a typical website and put background images in the wrong place. Web site development is a hobby for me, not a full time job, and because I don’t work every day with tricks needed to make MS IE behave, I end up spending at least half of the total time I need to develop a site fiddling around making Internet Explorer display it correctly:
Not any more. If you use MS IE 6.0 or earlier to view this site, the site header is not displayed correctly, and you will see a message telling you that you are using a older browser and suggesting you install one of a number of browsers that work correctly. I must admit I hate exercise. Apart from cycling, perhaps. We have cycled from Munich to the Czech border and back in two weeks a few years ago. But where we live now is at the top of a 12 km long uphill climb of about 500 meters and when we first moved here, . . . → Read More: How to keep young
So the next time we move, there is one “must”. We are going to have lights and blinds controlled by a home automation (HA) unit which can be programmed using a personal computer using either a USB interface, or better, via a WLAN connection. At least, I hope so. Getty Images was the company which cost us over 870 Euro, despite our engaging an intellectual property lawyer to defend ourselves, for using a 180 x 90 pixel image on another of our web sites. I can confirm that our experience with Getty was in line with the cases described in today’s Guardian, . . . → Read More: Getty Images slammed for hounding people I haven’t posted for more than a couple of weeks. That’s mainly because there’s been a lot going on. Not that that that is actually positive: I’ve had a kidney stone which has been painful enough to keep me in off work for a few days; I also had a tooth root treatment . . . → Read More: I’m still here Valencia has some great architecture… .. even the waste bins are stylish here! The truck drivers belonging to Spain’s second largest trucker’s trade union have been on strike since the beginning of this week. So far, although 40% of the filling stations in Catalunya (the NE corner of Spain) are out of fuel, we haven’t had any difficulty getting diesel for the car, but I took . . . → Read More: The trucker’s strike in Spain is biting |
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