Category Archives: Preparation

Oops, seems that un upgrade I did this afternoon has busted the layout. You’d think that in my line of work I’d know by now that “if it ain’t broke, don’t upgrade it”…!

*sigh*

Oh well, this one’s going to have to wait until at least next weekend before I can fix it up – got a busy week of work to get through.

UPDATE:

OK, crisis averted (to a certain extent).

In typical web developer style I have dived deep into the code and hacked the part that was causing maximum grief where Internet Explorer display issues were concerned.

As such, I am happy to leave the current design in place, albeit that users of IE8 (or earlier) won’t see this site 100% “the way it should be seen”. So, if you’re reading this using IE8 or earlier, you will just have to be happy with 95%** “correctness”. Or you could get yourself a decent browser, such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or even, heaven forbid, IE9.

**No nicely rounded corners, some missing alpha transparency, and a couple of CSS3 goodies.

For posterity’s sake (and because of my disdain of all web-based Microsoft things), here is…

THE ORIGINAL POST:

Just spent a futile half hour or so trying to come up with the perfect word to describe my frustration, loathing and downright contempt of that piece of software that some people laughingly refer to as a web browser; for those who haven’t guessed yet, I speak of Internet Explorer. Of course, I couldn’t find a word that fits the bill… there’s obviously no word in the English language that’s that bad…!

It appears that there are some fairly severe glitches with the way this blog displays in Internet Explorer, specifically versions up to and including IE8*. Having tried for a fair chunk of the afternoon to try and overcome the problems, I can’t afford to spend any more time going down this frustrating path and feel I have no choice but to ditch the current design and start again. As such I’ll be putting something together this weekend, it’ll be simple but hopefully Internet Explorer friendly for those who still use IE8 or earlier.

Don’t know whether to laugh, cry or scream.

Might try all three.

*It would be remiss of me not to give a smidgeon of credit to Microsoft and their ability to develop web-based applications – after all, their current release of Microsoft Explorer is actually quite satisfactory when it comes to rendering websites the way they’re supposed to be seen. But for the life of me I can’t see how it could take them 16 YEARS & 9 VERSION RELEASES to achieve this simple requirement!

Hitched the van up to the Commodore for the first time yesterday and headed out for a bit of a test run.

All good.

…well, not yet.

But I did buy myself a new rod and reel today – reduced from $100 down to $30. Not a bad bargain!

Strike Runner 30 fishing reel

I’m losing sleep over the lack of sleeps remaining. So much to do before we go, yet most of it doesn’t prevent us from going.

A brief stop in Ballarat on the way home, so that Emma could visit the local patchwork shop, then a fairly uneventful trip home.

How’s this for a useless factoid to end proceedings – after leaving Ballarat, we passed NO traffic lights until we left the freeway at Hallam North Rd (just 1.5 km from home). That’s just under 200km of uninterrupted freeway travel. Can’t complain about that!

So ends our first adventure in the new van, hopefully the first of many including, of course, the “big trip” we are planning for next year.

Total disatance traveled: 667km

365 days to go until our big trip begins, and given how fast the last six months has passed, I’m sure it will be here before we know it…

Today, John had the privilege of taking a tour through the Jayco factory to experience the caravan making process first hand. And the verdict was positive indeed – a big tick next to Quality Assurance.