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Take that biatch

Chickie Little — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:14:29 +0000

Last night I dreamt about having a meeting with the stupid Ditzy Dumb Ass of a manager we have at work.

It was all about our web presence and how crap things were. I was shaming her out by telling everyone all the stupid things she’s done that go against W3C guidelines. She went all red and flustered like she does, trying to make excuses.

I know in real life doing something like that wouldn’t make any difference, but it was a great dream.

What a geek I am.

Because I’m a Geek

Chickie Little — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:39:45 +0000

While doing a bit of reading about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), I came across a page from 1998 about Text Decoration with CSS.

It talks about blinking text which I remember using alongside the good old “Site under construction” animated gif when I was an Internet noob.

The page states:

Therefore, only CSS1-aware versions of Netscape Navigator are going to see the following effect:
H4 {text-decoration: blink;}
This might be a blinkin’ H4

Lovely, isn’t it?

NO! It is not lovely, and I justify using capitalisation, strong and emphasis styling on that statement!

Luckily for us there are now web guidelines that discourage this sort of rubbish and we don’t really see these things too often today.

Even Lou Montulli the creator of the original tag (which has since been deprecated and replaced by the above text-decoration) admits that it is The worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet.

It was just funny seeing how someone thought that using blinking text was lovely.

And who uses Netscape anyway…?

See also my Foolery Four #11 comic. I created this even before seeing the note on the W3c User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 that states in Guideline 4 flashing content may trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. I thought I was being exteme, but I guess not!

The Foolery Four #12

Chickie Little — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:48:06 +0000

Albino African Nerd may have had some competition if Hippy Ninja's laser cutter actually worked as expected.

The Foolery Four #11

Chickie Little — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:06:01 +0000

Ditzy Dumb Ass has another crap idea

The Foolery Four #09

Chickie Little — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:44:30 +0000

Enter the Ditzy Dumb Ass

The Foolery Four #08

Chickie Little — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:47:00 +0000

Albino African Nerd needs more skills

kB Comparison Chart

Chickie Little — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:06:53 +0000

I’ve had numerous debates on the 1000 versus 1024 bytes to a kilobyte, and noone seems to win in the end. Even the interwebs can’t give us a proper answer.

So, I am willing to settle for the following. (This kilobyte comparison chart is hung on the hubby’s wall at work, printed from ~~a website that I can’t seem to find~~ xkcd.com – A Webcomic – Kilobyte.)

Shake some Kelly-Bootle

Bracelet Cellphone Watch

Chickie Little — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:07:11 +0000

Ms Constantine sent me a link today about an “actual” cellphone watch.

We had recently been talking about these and I was reminded about another conversation with a work colleague where our conclusion was that everyone could have a cellphone watch by simply taping your cellphone to your wrist.

Here’s mine – a watch, phone, camera and MP3 player that all fits (mostly) on my wrist. Optional ribbon colours are available.

Not sure if I’m as brave as the Headset Fail guy to go out in public with this though!

LOL :D

Go one step further with a bracelet cellphone watch!

Have *you* got a cellphone watch?

The Foolery Four #02

Chickie Little — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:40:45 +0000

Hippy Ninja fails to defend his ninja hook

The Foolery Four

Chickie Little — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:33:30 +0000

We decided to give ourselves character names over cocktails and beer at the bach in Taupo, and voilà – introducing my new cartoon The Foolery Four!

Introducing the Foolery Four

Tune in next time to see what tomfoolery The Foolery Four get up to.