Please Microsoft, Kill IEs 5 and 6

December 12, 2005 by Eric Richardson

If I wasn't sick all ready, trying to understand Internet Explorer's rendering would probably make me ill. Sometime after I launched the changed up sidebar styles on blogdowntown a few weeks ago I noticed that IE put a really ugly amount of padding between the list elements, against my express instructions not to. And today I notice that IE makes the archive page I was so proud of a couple days ago render like crap.

I hate IE. I found a solution to the first problem, though.

Update (6:05pm): Found a way around the second, as well as an annoying sidebar margin issue. — Continue Reading...

Those Crazy Bikers

December 10, 2005 by Eric Richardson

Kathy got to do her first Midnight Ridazz last night. The theme for the ride was "Christmas in July in December", but neither of us dressed for the occasion. It was cold out and I've got a cold; some times common sense has to take priority. Other people were solidly decked out for the outing; I didn't take any pictures, but Will Campbell did. He also posted his ride account over on blogging.la.

My favorite point of the night: riding past a group of befuddled tourists in front of the El Capitan. I love the idea of them taking their photos back to someplace in the midwest and showing their friends "those crazy Californians" riding their bikes in Hollywood.

More Fun with CSS Tweaking

December 09, 2005 by Eric Richardson

Whenever I roll a look onto a site, it typically takes a good week or so before it gets to the point where I'm happy with it. It may only take an hour to put a nice mast together and pick out a dominant color to scheme off of, but it seems like the CSS tweaking afterward can take forever.

This evening I re-jiggered the CSS for two more bits of the blog: the archives and the comments. — Continue Reading...

Putting a New Look on Things

December 08, 2005 by Eric Richardson

I finished my finals tonight, so in celebration I thought I'd put a new look up here. Something about the old one was bugging me a bit. I think maybe the orange on the outside was oppressing my ability to read the content inside. Or something.

The flare effect probably comes off a bit cheesy, but I think I like it. I still want to do some work on the sidebars. I'm nowhere near 100% sold on the list styles for recent comments and the blogroll. But whatever, I figured I'd go ahead and rashly launch as normal.

For those of you following along at home, the last look lasted since June 25th.

5 Miles Around Downtown

December 04, 2005 by Eric Richardson

I took a nice little bike ride this afternoon. It wasn't long, only a 5 mile loop around Downtown, but it was a good mid-afternoon workout. I wish you could see elevations via something like a Google Maps interface, but you can't so you'll have to imagine that there are a couple nice climbs in there. The first is going up Garland from 8th to 7th, and the second is the push up Lucas from 6th to 4th.

I also took a lot of pictures on the ride today, and put them online in this flickr set. Though the included shot would lead you to believe otherwise, it was still light outside.