Entries this day: DVD_needed GIMP_temp Interesting_CSS also_CSSed

DVD needed

10:16am JST Wednesday 12 September 2007 (day 13685)

Doeth! I thought I should take a second to look for my DVDs cause I want to install GIMP on my computer to do some image editing, but I thought I could just download X11 for OS X 10.4.

False.

So it looks like I'll have to use stupid photoshop on the stupid M$ box.

The reason it's stupid may just amount to me not knowing how to use it properly, but the key issue for me is that I can't undo edits after saving the file. Even Save-As kills the edit history. Fuck.

GIMP temp

12:12pm JST Wednesday 12 September 2007 (day 13685)

My temporary solution was to install The Gimp on the windows machine, do the edits there, and then copy the files back to my machine to use emacs for htmlification (putting them into a table).

It is my understanding that they were going to but a new Mac for me here, but I'm not super sure that's actually going to happen. I've been toting my Mac back and forth, and it's a bit heavy (machine, power supply, wireless keyboard, mouse)

12:26pm JST

Wow. Just talked to a cat named Koichi, who happens to be the president of this here operation. He's trying to merge five companies at once, so he said "don't worry too much about chain of command," after I had asked him to whom I should be reporting.

His English is fine.

Interesting CSS

3:18pm JST Wednesday 12 September 2007 (day 13685)

I've never really been a fan of CSS, partially because it didn't exist when I started my website, and partly because there are *still* browser incompatibility issues with the more interesting CSS doodads.

However, in my new job situation, they have customers with great interest in CSS. I don't mind learning new markup techniques, though I don't want to worry about what works on which browser and who wants what to look like which and why we who wear what where were when while which. But, these do make good words to toss into a meaningless paragraph.

The point being, I have added the following code to the top of this entry:

<style type="text/css">
p:first-letter 
{
color: DeepSkyBlue;
font-size:xx-large
}
p:first-line 
{
color: DeepSkyBlue;
}
</style>

And while it may not work properly given that there are now two style blocks on this page (online), when I run it locally, it changes the first letter to big and red green (*), and the first line to just red green (*). Changing the width of the browser window changes the length of the top line of each paragraph, and therefore changes which words are red green (*).

I think I'll change red to green (*).

3:37pm JST

(*) Wow. In researching the hex code for green, I found a list of HTML color names apparently supported by all major browsers.

I think I'll change it to DeepSkyBlue.

For the record, I've written all this, including the strikethroughs for colors, etc, and haven't tested it on my site with my existing CSS styles.

also CSSed

3:47pm JST Wednesday 12 September 2007 (day 13685)

So, now I've tested the thing; it works on my browser, and I'm plenty happy with that.

I noted that the first lines of the paragraphs before this entry are not affected (the <style> block shows up after those. So I figured I would write a new entry just to see if the style would continue into the next entry.

But, as I'm writing it, I know it must: the browser can't tell a difference between what parts of the page come from what files, etc, so this might as well be a continuation of the previous page, blah blah blah. The point is, these paragraphs will also have their first letters and lines highlighted with Deep Sky Blue, as above.