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Recycling Day

Rich — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:22:48 +0000

Tuesday is our garbage and recycling day. This day usually does nothing more than infuriate me. I’m glad our neighbors recycle. We should do more of it. They never put a lid on their recycling box though, and my yard ends up littered with the weeks newspapers. This happens more often then not and my fence ends up plastered with paper.

XUL Pain

Rich — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:29:19 +0000

I’ve hit a dilemma on a project I’m working on. I want to create a panel similar to the new bookmark and identity panels. The panel has an iframe in it to display web pages. I want the panel to be movable, resizable and animated (similar to the alert slider). This isn’t very easy to do with the panel element. To get around the difficulties in trying to meet these requirements I decided to use a window that is a dependent window without any titlebar or chrome. This seemed like a good way to implement it and the animation looks really good. However, I’ve now hit a road block that I do not know how to get around. The iframe displays correctly on Mac and Linux, but a bug on Windows causes it not to be displayed.

So now I’m stuck with the question of how to get this implementation done. Do I try and figure out how to get the panel animated and resizable or do I try to work around the Windows bug that is causing the iframe to not be displayed?

These are the kind of issues that sometimes make working with XUL a real pain. Do you have any suggestion on how to get this working? Do you have similar pains that I may be able to help with?

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Twitter Updates for 2008-06-26

Rich — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:59:59 +0000

Turned off twitter updates because they were too distracting. Now all updates are in my feed reader. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-20

Rich — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:59:59 +0000

Internet connection has been acting flaky all morning. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-17

Rich — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:59:59 +0000

Just did my part for the Firefox record #
Why is it the spore creature creator only works on 10.5.3. Guess I’m SOL. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-10

Rich — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:59:59 +0000

@cfinke You just have to let it take you. Days like that aren’t often enough and you don’t want to disrupt the flow. #
@msaleem That is the first twitter IM I’ve received in a week. #
@msaleem That is the first twitter IM I’ve received in a week. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-09

Rich — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:59:59 +0000

@swirlee I hear you. We’ve had 3 tornado warning in the last 4 days. Gets tiring. #
Rachel and the kids are on the way to rapid city. I have the house all to my self this week. I’m not going to know what to do. #
@cfinke You should try Transmission. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-06

Rich — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:59:59 +0000

Wanted to tweet that Amazon is down and there is already like 4 of them. Sigh #

New Propeller

Rich — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:19:20 +0000

Now that we have been working on the new version of propeller for several months, Tom has started to post some information about it. I especially like our little mascot “Propeller Professor”. You can vote for the story here.

Needs LOLS

Rich — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:50:08 +0000

Originally uploaded by simple mike (dotspiral).

This weeks Flickr interesting photo. I see this picture and I can’t help but think that someone needs to come up with a lol caption for it. Seems perfect for icanhascheezeburger.