Later kids.

That's pretty much how it's been for me. After a few days of this weather I'm pretty used to it, and it doesn't bother me. Sure, technically my skin will physically freeze after 5 minutes outside, but that's neither here nor there at this point. It's rather amazing how fast people can get used to the elements.

What I find funny is people on the east coast bitching about how damn cold it is. I saw some reports on MSNBC last night about it. They made it sound like it was the worst thing ever to hit the east coast in ages. Then I checked the temps. It was 22 in NYC. 22!?! On my god, call the National Guard, it's an epidemic!

I wasn't sure whether to laugh at the idiots in NY bitching about this or MSNBC for even reporting it. Either way, it's pretty humorous.

"Good afternoon-

I received my order today for Creamy Peanut Butter Low Carb Myoplex Bars and Fruit Punch BetaGen, but Grape BetaGen was sent instead. Please advise on how to get my order corrected so that I receive Fruit Punch. Thanks"

Creamy Peanut Butter Low Carb Myoplex Bars eh? Looks like you got the wrong address there lady. And she did. She mistyped her "G" and replaced it with an "F", thus sent it to vitaflo.com instead of vitaglo.com. After correcting her on her error, I got this rather funny reply:

"Damn, I was born with freakishly fat finfers. Kidding, sorry about that and thanks for lettinf me know!! :)"

No wonder she spelt the address wrong (check the spelling). Here's hoping all those Fruit Punch bars will inprove her typing skills.

I'd like to say that it won't. A lot of the current CSS "hacks" are used for specific things. The Simplified Box Model Hack for example is great for, fixing the flawed box model of IE5/PC, since it's one of the few browsers out there that is tripped up by this hack. Since Safari is also tripped up by it, it makes the entire hack useless.

In fact after a few back and forth emails with Safari developer Dave Hyatt, he agrees with me, and would like to fix the bug before the final version comes out. I hope this does indeed happen, as it would sure save me a lot of time (as well as others) in re-coding sites to work in Safari (and make Safari actually work the way it's supposed to).

IMHO, all the CSS parsing bugs should be fixed. I understand wanting to hide certain things from Safari (or to only show certain things in Safari) but I think if you want this you should add some Safari-only codes into the browser. Some may cringe at that notion and think of all the proprietary stuff in IE, but remember that Mozilla also has a few proprietary tags as well.

It could be something as simple as "safari-hide" and "safari-show" somewhere in the CSS (as comments, or tags, whatever). To me this is a much better solution because you're not introducing actual bugs into the browser, but instead are writing your own additions to the browser to make it easier for developers. You're also not then tied to a specific "hack" that could totally backfire on you when a new browser comes out and screws up the hack model (see above).

In the end however, the most important part is fixing ALL the bugs, rendering and otherwise, so that we never have to rely on "hacks" or proprietary code in the first place!

Looks like I have another game system to get. I must say, this thing looks sweet. Like the old GB Color only folded in half. Which is good, it was much easier for me to play the old Gameboy's than the GBA for some reason. Though with the Gameboy Player coming out shortly afterward, maybe I'll wait a bit.

Apple released a beta version of their Safari browser, based on KHTML (the same engine Konqueror uses). If you have a chance, download it and beta test the thing. It has some serious issues that need work before it goes to 1.0 (you can send bug reports back to Apple right from the browser). Since this is something us web developers will have to end up supporting eventually (it'll be the Mac's default browser once it ships), it'd be nice if it actually worked like everything else. I know *I* certainly don't like making my job any harder than it already is.

I had a bit of enlightenment last night. I was finally able to wrap my head around the age and cycles of the universe, how 4-D space works, how space can be finite yet have no boundaries, and the true concept of infinity and its paradoxes. It's funny how when you start to "get" one or two things, how a lot of other pieces just fall into place, like a leaky dam that suddenly burst open.

Alas, that did not happen, as I ended up choosing to persue computer science instead, however part of me is still mesmerized by space. And I guess part of the reason is because it is so...big. Just trying to imagine the enormity of space can give one headaches, but it can also be therapeutic as well. It is very easy to get wrapped up in one's own small microcosm, and forget their place in the world. When you travel outside of this small blue planet and look at it from the outside, you begin to realize how insignificant some things really are, and how much more is really out there than just the daily grind. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan wraps these types of thoughts up beautifully, in ways I don't think anyone else ever has, or really ever could. His subject isn't just about space, it's about being human.