Rubenerd

Michael Shynar does a better job than I would distilling the fact of CSS suckage:

• CSS relies on hierarchy for positioning, visibility & property inheritance. Therefore, it cannot be separated from the markup & interaction like some HTML purists suggest.

• When positioning elements, one of two options can be used:

  • In the flow, which means automatic height & collection of inline assets into blocks, but very hard to tweak the default decisions.

  • Out of the flow, which more or less forces use of fixed dimensions for anything positioned this way.

Of course, often you’ll end up with the following retorts:

• But I’m an expert at it!
• But before, we mixed content and presentation!
• But look at the cool things you can make with it

Apprecite for a moment what non-sequiters these are.

Don’t see it? Here’s an example. Among my more archaic skills, I’m damn good at optimising conventional DOS memory. It’s such an improvement over core memory. With it, I can run cool things, like Commander Keen! Therefore, by CSS logic, DOS memory must be great.

I need some tea.

Oh Goodreads, you so funny.

Perhaps its a remnant of my dial-up days, but I’m one of those old fashioned people that keeps local copies of all the stuff I download. Saves me having to download them again if I need to reinstall.

In the case of Xcode 4.x, components are downloaded and installed from the Preferences screen, but you can still keep the downloaded disk images by navigating to:

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads/

Ironically enough, I only remembered this again when I was going through my home folder backups, and realised my Caches folder was way larger than it should be.

In 2009, my beloved Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debated that the Catholic Church was not a force for good in the world. In this part of his opening statements, Steven discusses Pope Benedict XVI.

I hope this retiring Pope is proud of his legacy.

(I found a version on YouTube that doesn’t need Flash ^_^)

An hour ago, my sister tweeted that my wrist was on Gizmodo Australia. Sure enough, there I was on How Stupid Are You Willing To Look For Apple’s Magical iWatch?

My response (pending moderation):

I’m the guy in the photo who’s “Willing To Look Stupid For Apple”. My sister tweeted me and said my wrist was on Gizmodo Australia.

For me, this generation iPod nano is really useful. I use the built in pedometer constantly (a feature that’s barely mentioned in the press). It’s a memory key I’m guaranteed to always have around, more so than other keys that so often get left in the wrong trouser pocket. As a watch, it’s easy to see at a glance. The wristband for it came from an official Apple Store. In a pinch, I can dump some podcasts onto it if my phone is running low on space.

And now I go back to ignoring Gawker sites and their regional clones with their sensationalist, click-bait headlines. “How Stupid Are You Willing To Look For Apple’s Magical iWatch?” … good grief.

It’s a shame nobody has a stolen prototype iWatch for your American colleagues to buy.

Stay classy, Gizmodo. Reach for new standards in journalistic excellence and integrity, while insulting the people you sourced your free image from.

My new favourite desktop background. Wow!

By はるよ on Pixiv.

So we’re moving house again, and it’s a lot of work. My first task, cleaning out and throwing away more of my stuff.

I’m certainly not at the level of a hoarder, but I’m a "collector". Coins, stamps, computer cables, business cards… and for some reason thoroughly-washed beverage containers. Most of them have a history that are either far too personal or embarrassing to impart here! XD

As with my old display, I find taking pictures of things renders them easier to dispose of. Perhaps immortalising them on my Flickr feed means they’re still with me somehow. I’m a weird person.

From top left to bottom right, immortalised forever here on Rubénerd.com:

1. An IKEA apple cider can
2. Two Starbucks coffee cups from my first year back in Sydney
3. A “Drink Responsibly” coffee cup from the Coffee Club
4. Two Starbucks Yuletide-themed cups
5. Two cans of Mr Potato, my favourite snack from Malaysia as a kid
6. A Starbucks cup with an earlier logo sleeve
7. Two years of The Rocks Aroma Festival cups
8. A carton of Paul’s Egg Nog I took to an Anime Club event
9. A Maxwell Coffee can from one of my earlier dates with Clara
10. A Selamat Wafer, which is far too bagus to mention!

If I were into paranormal stuff, I’d claim it was a syncronicity.

Today, in Sydney:

Trains across most of the CityRail network are delayed up to 40 minutes after a fire safety alarm activated because of smoke in the Strathfield Signalling Complex earlier.

Today, in Singapore:

[a fire in an MRT tunnel] involving electrical wiring disrupted train services on the North-South line at about 9.05am. [..] Train services between Marina Bay and Toa Payoh stations resumed at 11.30am

So a fire alarm goes off, and the entire CityRail network goes down in Sydney for the rest of the day. A fire hits the Singapore MRT, and the affected line is fixed in less than 3 hours. Good to know.

Photo of the Newton MRT station by Terence Ong. Newton was the station I lived closest to for most of my time in SG, funnily enough ^_^

Between packing, moving and working on my university anime club’s website and membership systems, I haven’t had time to review the last two Tamako Market episodes Clara and I watched. I know, I’m as horrified as you are!

While we wait for me to have a sliver of spare time, have this super cute Megami image of the girls from the series instead. Arigato.

Responding to my Compaq Presario post, @dai1313 on Twitter posted a link to the beigetastic PC box he had. I recognised it instantly, a early Dell Dimension tower!

While I wasn’t a fan of Dell, there was something understated and clean about those designs. This was the height before everyone desperately stuck coloured plastic panels everywhere in a half-arsed attempted to emulate the entirely new iMac. Then everyone went black, and nobody went back.

Just as 1980s Commodore computers have seen a resurgence in interest because people grew up with them, kids who grew up in the 1990s will have seen these, and I’ll bet a few would pay for modern replicas of their old machines. Laugh all you want, but nostalgia can be a powerful force!