So I was idly surfing Live Journals with ‘Balliol’ listed as an interest when I stumbled upon a report that The JCR has voted to ban smoking and disaffiliate from the NUS.

Now I know that the student body will have a complete turnover every few years, and that 2006 isn’t 1993 in so many ways, but it’s still a bit of a shock. My memories of Balliol JCR are so strong and so frozen in time that I just can’t make the leap to the place where kids who were still in primary school when I was there are now shaping the place in their own image.

At some point whilst I was alseep the name Unity Kincaid popped into my head and for the rest of the night my dreams consisted of people saying that name to each other. I wake up, hit Google and (re)discover that she was a character in Sandman.

Um, dreams, Sandman, spooky.

Very True Mood: nervous

Pootergeek posts one of the great dilemmas of our times. I’m sure that some loopier readers will have strong opinions.

Very True Mood: tired

Via a newsgroup post:

A stylesheet used on a MicroSoft web site: http://connect.microsoft.com/Styles/GeneralStyles.css. And just in case they edit it, the first few lines read -

/* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */
* html .StupidIEMarginHack
{
margin-right: 1px;
}

* html .StupidIEWidthHack
{
width: 100%;
}

Even MicroSoft’s own web developers are fed up with IE’s CSS shortcomings.

Very True Mood: cheerful

I think that was one of the best episodes of Never Mind the Buzzcocks for ages. And pink_weasel will be bouncing off the walls when she plays it back. But I’ll let her tell you why later…

Very True Mood: mischievous

The washing machine is making bleeping noises and refusing to drain.

pink_weasel might have left her iPod at college on Friday.

Not only was there one hour less sleep last night, but the council were resurfacing the road right outside first thing this morning.

Not a happy bunny.

Very True Mood: depressed

I was starting the process of updating my long neglected Tanita Tikaram web site, and was checking out other sites. From her official web site (and repeated on a number of others):

‘Sentimental’ is Tanita’s sixth studio album

1. Ancient Heart - 1988
2. The Sweet Keeper - 1990
3. Everybody’s Angel - 1991
4. Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness - 1992
5. Lovers In The City - 1995
6. The Cappuccino Songs - 1998
7. Sentimental - 2005

I make that seven, not six, I don’t see why any of them wouldn’t be counted. Odd

Very True Mood: curious

via lonemagpie

These are the instructions:

• Put your iTunes/Winamp/WMP on shuffle.
• Say the following questions aloud, and press play.
• Use the song title as the answer to the question.
• NO CHEATING unless the songs you get don’t make any damned sense.

1. How does the world see me? Crime and Punishment - Fun Loving Criminals
2. Will I have a happy life? A Stroke of Luck - Garbage
3. What do my friends really think of me? Friend or Foe - Adam Ant
4. Do people secretly lust after me? In Liverpool - Suzanne Vega
5. How can I make myself happy? Found That Soul - Manic Street Preachers
6. What should I do with my life? I’m finding it harder to be a gentleman - White Stripes
7. Will I ever have children? Little Willie Leaps - Charlie Parker
8. What is some good advice for me? Armistice Day - Midnight Oil
9. How will I be remembered? Model Worker - Magazine
10. What is my signature dancing song? It’s Bad You Know - RL Burnside
11. What do I think my current theme song is? Under the Weather - KT Tunstall
12. What does everyone else think my current theme song is? I Will Hold On - Moxy Früvous
13. What song will play at my funeral? Keep Myself Awake - Black Lab
14. What type of women do I like? Pain (Slayer Mix) - Four Star Mary
15. What is my day going to be like? Frank Spencer Blues Explosion - Shirehorses
16. Will I ever have love again? Good Date Band? - Moxy Früvous
17. What type of sex life do I have? Written in the Heart - Midnight Oil
18. What song would be the title of my own porno movie? It’s Coming Down - Cake But see 7 above, which sounds much more like a porn movie title

Very True Mood: bored

The browser with the rather unwieldy name of Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th is, as the name hints, here and the usual suspects are talking about it.

This release is feature locked as far as site rendering is concerned. So time to start checking your CSS, etc. I’m happy to see that the problems with the book covers in the side bar are fixed, and as conditional comments are also working now I can hide the covers from older IE versions and show them to IE7. (But remember, if you have multiple copies of IE installed they will all use the version number of the ‘main’ copy. So check your conditional comments are working on separate test machines or use browser cam.)

One bug that’s still outstanding is that links with display:block in some case only respond to mouse hovers and clicks on the text and in other cases respond to hovers and clicks anywhere in the block. I think the deciding factor is float related but I need to create some test cases to check. Unless anyone can point me towards someone who’s already done the work?

Very True Mood: optimistic

I think that some people (thinking about frisbyrat for example) may be interested in these new Roman Seas models. Lovely work. Alas, even at 1/300 scale I don’t have room to recreate Misenum in miniature.

Very True Mood: impressed