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I have a very good email address. It is so good that every person with a similar name to mine seems to think it’s theirs. I get mortgage quotes, religious crap, family pictures, and event invites regularly. I recently was told that I have a Twitter account. This is becoming a large problem.

I replied to the sign-up email and told them the situation. I got no reply and apparently I’m still signed up because now I’ve been told I have a follower. If you go to Twitter’s site looking for support, it only seems to be available to members. Since I’m not a member, I have no way of logging in so I can’t post a question or problem.

This should be illegal. I should have a right to expect that companies won’t do this. I don’t know what to do to clear this up. If it is possible to talk to someone at Twitter, they’ve made it very obscure. It seems that I may be stuck getting some n00b’s emails forever because Twitter is poorly managed and isn’t able to take proper responsibility.

I checked IE7 in Vista yesterday to see how much horizontal screenspace was occupied by borders and scrollbars. The number is 21 pixels. As a web designer, this was relevant to me. Hopefully somebody else will find this useful.

This is a free online backup solution. They normally offer 2GB for free but if you click this link, each of us will get an extra 256MB.

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Check it out to earn me more space!

Here are the skeleton files I mentioned in my previous post.

This site skeleton is a typical two-column layout with a footer that always sticks to the bottom of the page. Unlike some solutions, this method works in all browsers and uses no JavaScript.

Check it out. Hopefully it is useful to somebody.

Over the past two days I created this:
http://www.cs.wright.edu/safe06/

This should have been a pretty simple site but I ran into some major technical issues. For one thing, creating cross-browser CSS footers like this is a quite difficult task. Doing this took some serious research. Many people online say it is impossible and others say to use JavaScript. Mike found a way to do it with pure CSS. He has a lot of time on his hands I think, but it was well worth it. I plan to post an empty shell of the site for illustrative purposes when I get around to it.

The other difficulty we ran across involved a browser bug in Firefox 1.0. I was having funny behavior in my footer on a couple pages and neither of us could figure out the cause. Eventually (after Mike basically rewrote the entire site and we had both spent several hours troubleshooting) we discovered that the problem didn’t exist on his PowerBook running Firefox 1.5. I immediately upgraded and I recommend you all do the same. Normally when we run into a problem with IE we assume it is the browser’s fault, but with Firefox we were blindsided.

Look for a future post featuring our new skeleton CSS layout with a working footer.

As some of you know, I did a school project on a potato-gun this quarter. The project was for EGR705 – Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments. I had to design and conduct an experiment and write a report about it. I chose to study the effect of barrel length, hair spray type, and ignition type on potato muzzle velocity.

The report was writen using Latex and I got a 98/100 on it. Only a few of you will fully understand the conclusions. But feel free to read it and see what you think.

Here is my report.

OMG! I just got the best deal on hosting in the history of the internet! I got it at DreamHost. It has PHP, MySQL, and Ruby On Rails. I can host three domains on it and it comes with one free domain name registration! I chose “sweatyrice.com” in order to oneday fulfill my dream of having a site dedicated to pics of silly looking imports.

Here are the specs:
Disk Space: 2400MB
Bandwidth: 120GB
E-Mail Accounts: 600
POP/SMTP/IMAP
PHP4/PHP5
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Subdomains Hosted: 15
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I’m going to be keeping farmdevil.net on its current Knuckles Deluxe hosting plan. I plan to use this new hosting for sweatyrice.com and possibly a joint business venture with Ohio Mike. It will probably be a while since I’m pretty busy. But if anyone has any pictures of hideously trashy import racers, please send them my way so I can start building up the archives.

Oh, also…. I don’t know how long this deal is going to last, but here are the steps to signing up for that hosting plan:
1. Visit http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?farmdevil.
2. Click the “Click Here For Details” button.
3. Click to do a one-year prepayment on the “Crazy Domain Insane!” plan.
4. When prompted, enter the promotion code “777″.
All Done!

You have probably noticed that there is now a Google search box living on the right. You also may have noticed a couple of Google ads down at the bottom of this page. For the n00bs out there, Google ads are targeted. They are generated based on what content Google finds on my page. During my testing phase, I found that apparently Google thinks I am a religious man. [bad link] is evidence. It’s a rare occasion that I get amused enough to take a screenshot. Back when I had my Dubya site, Google put all Republican ads on my page.

I noticed that Google hasn’t crawled my site recently so the search isn’t very up-to-date. If you run into any problems while using the search, please alert the concierge.

I start with a pic that Scott took in Jerome last weekend. I took some black and white pics but they are still being developed.

Anyways a lot has happened actually since my last post.

On Friday night Scott, Pete, and I went to the art walk downtown. Now that everybody knows about it and it has become trendy it kinda sucks. We saw some cool artwork though. One day when I am rich maybe I will be able to buy some.

Sunday we went to Jerome. Pete always talks about going there so I decided that I wanted to go. We had a good time wandering around taking pictures. In the mid-afternoon, we heard a band practicing in an abandoned building. I hollered up to a balcony and they invited us up. The band’s name is Test and they are a local Jerome band. They were working on their new song, A World Of Many Deceptions. It sounded pretty damn good. Of course that’s why I hollered up at them. On the way back we stopped in Prescott to eat at one of my favorite places, The Prescott Brewing Company.

During the week I did some stuff around the house and I played with my new Fedora box. It is coming along nicely. I have set it up as a web server and done some basic tasks. I’m learning slowly but surely. I also worked on my cousins’ computer. It was so trashed with spyware and adware I decided to take it home for a couple nights. I got it all fixed up and now I gave them separate accounts and fewer permissions so hopefully they will be more contained and things won’t get so screwed up like they have been every 3 months. Most nights we also watched movies on our new 92″ screen

Hopefully in the next few days we can get our entertainment center built so my living room will look a little less trashed. Also for some reason my PHP died on the Fedora Server so I would like to fix that. Once I get that going I will work some more on the Paradise Picture Frame website and I may start working on an e-commerce site for Scott’s brother.