Really interesting discussion with a friend and my girlfriend today about use of the term homophobia (and whatever-phobic really). The issue came up regarding gay marriage. If you are a straight person who has no issue with gay people but don’t support gay marriage then are you homophobic?
Has the latest Firefox upgrade caused font problems? Are fonts randomly appearing in an ugly bold italic format on certain places? I recently had this problem myself and a lot of research into it suggested that upon upgrading, some of the main system fonts become corrupted. The most commonly corrupted font was arial, so your first port of call would be to replace this font with a clean version. Here’s how:
This recipe has been floating around my family for as long as I can remember. It often gets pulled out at christmas and birthday get togethers. I recently learned to make it and was amazed at how easy it was. Next time I make it’ll take a photo and post it, but for now, here’s how you do it:
I’m doing a pair of e-learning subjects in my masters this semester so the next couple of months of posts will probably be centering around what I’m learning there, interspersed with the odd rant about Flash, as I’m doing a 2D animation elective. I just finished reading through a paper from the American Society for Training and Development that was meant to allow you to assess your competencies in a range of areas important to an e-learning designer. However I think I missed the point of the paper.
Ever had that problem where you’re trying to send a message in Microsoft Outlook and it gets stuck in the outbox? You’ve tried deleting it but it gives you the message that the message is in the process of being sent so you can’t delete it? And any other emails you try and send get stuck in the queue behind the message that won’t move? The reason the email got stuck in the first place is usually because it’s too large for your server to process. If you google the solution to this you’ll find a long list of really complicated ways of trying to remove the message, often involving having to add new PST files and who wants to do that? I have two easier solutions for you.
In the process of putting this blog together I’ve learnt a lot about wordpress, themes, plugins and so on, being that this is the first time I decided to try and use it. Interestingly, the thing I had the most issue with was not modifying a theme, installing plugins, modifying layout or anything along those lines, it was getting Google Adsense to display. So I’ve decided to write a brief little how to, for anyone else who is new to Wordpress and wondering how to go about it.
Today is my day off work. I was planning on a long, leasurely sleep-in, maybe read a bit…no. I forgot to turn off my alarm. I was woken at some ungodly non-day-off hour. Sigh. So what does a young nerd do on her day off when she’s awake 3 hours ahead of schedule? Why, plays with Wolfram Alpha of course! For those of you who haven’t already heard about it from some source or another, Wolfram Alpha is a new method of searching for the answer to problems. It’s not a search engine; the creators call it a “computational knowledge engine.” In a nutshell, it’s very cool. And I wish I’d had it when I was at university wading my way through maths!
There’s been a lot of hype at the moment because Google is contacting artists asking them to work on skinning and theming Google Chrome. The reason for the hype? Google wants them to work for free and there appears to be a pretty big backlash. I can see both sides of the argument here. Google is a massive (MASSIVE) company – they can afford to pay these designers ten times over, economic climate or no economic climate. With that in mind maybe they should, too. It’s tough to find work at the moment, especially if you freelance. That new website design that a company was considering 6 months ago is suddenly on the back burner.
It amuses me somewhat that the first post I make on this blog is about porn.
Nah, not really. I’m reading about boobytrapped porn sites designed to infect Macs and wondering about the whole thing. I’m always engaged in a constant war of Mac vs. PC with various Mac-loving-PC-hating friends of mine and strangely the number one point in every argument they present is that Macs don’t have any known viruses. Untrue now? I think untrue previously but quashed by marketing attempts and as the article says, it’s lead to a whole lot of complacent users.
