August, 2004

Amen.

One of the best strips I’ve ever seen at Penny Arcade. I laughed my head off.

I’ve just completed my first design in pure CSS (sorry, can’t show it until it goes live) and the feeling I get is that it wasn’t harder than doing it with tables, just different. Well, that’s not true. It was harder because I didn’t know how a lot of the stuff needed to be done. But if I did know how it is supposed to be done the task wouldn’t have been harder than doing it the old-fashioned way with tables. I think it’ll be two or three designs before I get the hang of it. Then comes the cool part where I start doing things I never could before. Can’t wait for that to happen

I cleaned the case of my iPod today and was surprised to find that the case had popped out on the side. Now I’ve dropped it a couple of times by accident but I hadn’t noticed the bulge on the side of the metal case. I proceeded to frantically press and pry to get it back in place, but alas, to no avail.

Obviously the next step was to Google for it. No results seemed to match the problem I had. Finally I searched for how to open an iPod thinking that would at least give me a tip as to how to get between the plastic top case and the bottom metal one. Lo and behold this turned up results.

The recommendation was to use thin plastic used in Radio Shack packaging. With no Radio Shack within a 1000 miles of Pune I started hunting around my room for a suitable piece of plastic. I now have the case popped back into place… and the implement used? A rigid strip of cold medication (Cold-Act to be precise).

So now you know. And knowing is half the battle. G.I. Joe Zindabaad.