Laurabelle's Blog

I seem to have completely missed the waves of comment spam that have plagued the world of Movable Type in the past months (see Burningbird's recent post on the topic for links to posts of hers that provide a kind of timeline for the attacks). I'm apparently not popular enough to merit an attack, and [...]

It looks like Internet Explorer is getting better. To the right is a screenshot of what my site looks like in a fully standards-compliant browser, namely Firebird. Below is what it looks like in Internet Explorer. Much to my surprise, IE6 now appears to support the display:inline property-value combination, which I use to format some [...]

Google is the theme of the week in my Information Retrieval Systems class, so we've been reading some cool stuff about Google, especially this review of Google and a corresponding page about Google inconsistencies and bugs. It's really interesting to realize the limitations on Google's searching capabilities, especially Boolean operators, truncation, and wildcards, in light [...]

Dorothea and I have different strategies towards category archives. As she says, The problem with running off at the keyboard the way I do is that eventually, adding a new blog entry becomes an exercise in CPU-hogging. Her solution is to sub-divide her categories so that each has fewer entries. While I don't object to [...]

I'm in the Google directory! Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs > Personal Weblogs I don't know why this shocks me so much.

Last October, I complained about my AOL DSL service. The situation is now even worse; last Friday evening I got disconnected, and I haven't been able to connect since then. I even called AOL tech support, and although Larry was very friendly and tried to help, it's not his fault that AOL hasn't trained him [...]

This is a rewrite of an entry that I wrote a couple of weeks ago, one which I wrote in an attempt to digest my recent experiences with one of my housemates but which ultimately failed in that regard. According to Maggie, the entry came off as very harsh, which I partially intended. After all, [...]

Yesterday Jeff was planning to leave work about half an hour after my class got out, so we decided that I would wait for him in Mary Gates, and he would come find me after work. We discussed this a day or so before, however, so yesterday afternoon I left him a reminder on his [...]

The day before I left Dallas, my junior-high best friend Al and I went to Loretta's Intimates, which is still the only lingerie shop where I have ever been able to find bras that really fit. I got fitted again (I've gone up a size, not in the bust but around my chest), and I [...]

Evidently Safari doesn't understand descendant selectors. This is exceedingly annoying, because my stylesheets depend heavily on descendent selectors. The particularly problematic effect that this causes is due to my choice of a default text and link color which is the same as one of my background colors. When the appropriate descendant selector doesn't kick in, [...]