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I'm having the most frustrating problem on one of my client sites. None of the images are viewable in IE 5 on Mac OS X.
If I type the image URL into the address field in the browser I can view the image. But the same URL inside an img tag results in no image. How could that be?
Curiously, if the image is in the browsers cache it will display it. Clearing the cache again results in no image.
Anyone...anyone...Bueller?
Photos from Butte Montana are up. Butte is my favorite city in Montana. At the end of the 19th century it was the richest city in the West thanks to the huge copper mine it was built on top of. Lots of wealth was generated, lots of different people moved there (over 100,000 at it's peak,) and lots of big ostentatious (for the non-coastal west at least) building went on. It feels urban. Even to someone from NYC.
Today it is incredibly toxic (double superfund site.) The copper mine became a huge open pit mine, and is now completely filled up with water containing all sorts of nasty heavy metals. This one mine single handedly endangers the drinking water of the entire pacific northwest. Trees wouldn't even grow in the valley until very recently. The people are strange, even to other Montanans. MB called it a "ghost city." We all loved it.
If you're running Mozilla, you should install Mouse Gestures. They are awkward at first, but I can already tell I won't be able to surf without them once it becomes automatic. Here's a guide to what gestures control what actions in the browser. For instance, instead of clicking on the back button in your browser, just click and hold the mouse (no matter where you are on the page) and drag it to the left. Click and drag to the right to go forward. Mozilla is cool.
We had to take a mini vacation after getting back from the vacation. Just got home from a day and a half on Fire Island. That place is growing on me. It's the country for people who live in the city and don't really want the country. Sort of nice actually.
Going for a bite at Fresh now, and then tomorrow I'll finally get back to work.
No, really.
Really.
Diana, I made you an email account here as we discussed. You can get to it at digitalmediatree.com/webmail. Your name is 'diana' and hopefully you remember your password (lowercase as well.) Post something here if you don't and I can give you a hint.
Great seeing you. Let's stay in touch. Hi to Ron.
Here is a page that will contain all the links to photos from the Montana trip. Only the first set from Flathead Lake are up now. More to follow.
We stopped over in Minneapolis on the way home. Walking through the crowded terminal I started to get a little panicked. There were too many people around. I've never felt that before. I had a sudden desire to flee. Not the thought, but the physical desire. And I wasn't even back in NYC yet.
I wonder if some people feel that and actually can't go on. It's not like that for me. I just noticed the feeling with some interest and kept walking. No big problem. My social filters had atrophied, but I knew my urban defenses would come back up soon enough. It had only been two weeks. Still, I wonder what the transition would be like if I had lived out in the country all my life. I think New York would be oppressive.
And frankly, right now it is. But not because of the people. I'm already used to them. It's this heat. Oh my god. Last night we could barely sleep. This is some serious stuff. Not having an AC is pretty much unthinkable, yet that's our situation. Sort of like being in the sauna all day. The upside is that just surving seems like an accomplishment. Pesky things like work can be put off without the usual bit of guilt.
Not sure how to write about the trip yet. It was an important one for me. Maybe I'll just concentrate on getting some pictures up. I had a great time, for sure, but it already seems far in the past. It's harder than I thought to reconcile these different worlds. But it sure is fun to have the chance to try.
Heading for Montana. Be back on July 1. I'm praying everything stays running until then. I might get a brief connection in about a week, and if so I'll check in. Happy summer everyone.
The OED looks at blog:
As the publication of the New Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gets fully under way, one of the major changes to the OED's editorial efforts has been the creation of an editorial office concentrating on the collection and editing of materials relating to North American English....
...The NAEU is also working closely with the new words group in Oxford, carefully reviewing the high-profile new words that are so often of American origin, and drafting new entries for words that have come to our attention. Some of the words we have drafted in recent months include tipping point, gentleman's C, weaponize, collateral damage, blog, skeevy, and perp walk.
There are lots of poorly worded reports about a new virus that infects jpeg picture files. Supposedly you can get the virus by just opening an infected jpeg file. This is not true. The virus infects microsoft windows machines. Parts of the virus are contained in jpeg picture files, but these images are completely harmless unless you are using an infected windows machine. In other words, and as usual, if you are not running windows you are completely safe from this threat. So calling it a jpeg virus (instead of a windows virus) is quite misleading.