Design update, misc notes

I updated the design here somewhat...I was getting tired of the three column thing. It was a neat thing to code up but utterly useless as a design. I'm keeping it to a degree for now under the latest entries for each section.

One thing I realized is just how totally hosed MSIE is. I have been using the new Firefox browser from Mozilla, and previously had used Opera alongside MSIE. MSIE has had no major updates in years and it shows when you use something like Firefox. The thing that I noticed this time around was that IE's margin spacing is off. I use picas to set the left margin, and it should be the same for the banner and body (2pc). Firefox and Opera had no problems with this, but MSIE indented the body 4 picas for no apparent reason. I have it hardcoded to shift left for MSIE. Previously I had to do CSS hacks for the other browsers, now it's just MSIE that has any special hacks (other than Apple's Safari which doesn't understand or differentiate the colors InfoBackground and InfoText).

Still here in Downers Grove, IL, slowly going through the house. Cleaning stuff, boxing stuff, throwing stuff away. The lawyer left a message for me today that the court date is the 5th for the will and designation of me as executor of the estate. If that holds I'll be able to get finished with the legal and financial stuff that has been in limbo for six weeks.

Frisket is sleeping on the couch next to me. She had had fun for the first couple weeks here as I'd let her play offleash in the back yard. However with the snow melting she's gotten more adventurous and started exploring the other yards. Yesterday she ran away from me (which is disconcerting under normal circumstances) and ended up playing in a creek four houses down. That's about three Manhattan blocks away, though still within the same "block" as the house here.

So, now she's not allowed offleash outside (she also treed a cat the night before, luckily the cat didn't realize Frisket has no idea what to do with a cat).