Monday, November 10, 2003

Found some more caches this weekend (surprise, surprise) - 'Rusty's Revenge (Don't take any wooden Nickels.)', 'MEET ME AT THE GLEN FOR A FREE ICE CREAM CONE', and 'GBES Geocachers Reno Travel Bug Port', as well as the 'Little Red Motorcycle' travel bug. This was our second attempt at Rusty's Revenge. Both times, we made the trek with Brad and Emilie, and we found this very creative cache quickly on the second trip. I feel bad, though, because Mike started out going with us on this second attempt, but because we were so late getting started, he ran out of time before having to leave for a prior engagement. It's all my fault - sorry Mike.   =(

We ended up in Carson City on Saturday (for the ice cream cache), and decided to grab a quick little something to eat whilst there. Ummm, the ice cream was great, but the rest of the food could use a little improvement. You have been warned.

Well, the Primary program is finally over. I thought I was done with Primary when we moved, but, alas, I was called into our new ward's Primary to play the piano as a substitute. Thus, I had the honor of playing for yesterday's annual Primary program in Sacrament meeting. There was some pressure because I've come to find out that almost everyone in the ward plays the piano (thus they're potentially more attentive to how the accompanyment's played). But it went very well, actually. One funny thing I noticed is that key #32 on the piano (yes, they're numbered [under the cover]) at the Robb Drive chapel seemingly hits a string of its neighbor's, so it sounds a bit muddy.

I appreciated Brad's excellent reference to Occam's Razor - from the 1997 film "Contact" (with Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, and James Woods) in one of his recent blog entries. And who says that movies aren't educational?

Learned a few XHTML/CSS tricks the hard way today at work. If you have overlapping DIVs that you hide and unhide, don't use relative positioning, use absolute instead. Of course, using absolute positioning causes the dreaded 'text selection' bug in IE6, but only in standards (CSS1Compat) mode. Solution? Force IE6 into quirks (BackCompat) mode using the XML prologue. All the tutorials I've read have mentioned *not* using the XML prologue because of the IE bug. In this case, however, it's actually *beneficial* to the site in question in helping solve some rather unpleasant problems. Nice.

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