Day: December 5, 2003
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Tired of it
I’m getting the feeling that the rest of the non-IT world is getting tired with the offshore-outsourcing trend. People appear to be getting tired of dealing with corporations that only care about the money. The rise of truly crappy customer service appears to be pissing people off, and they are blaming companies for putting the…
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December IEEE Spectrum
The three most interesting things in the magazine this month were:About the emerging use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) in devices that will be able to be reconfigured into new devices programatically. Not just by adding new software to the device, but actually reconfiguring the hardware on the fly. It was a personal-digital-assistant, but now it’s…
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CSS Background
I know that this is a little thing, but while looking at another blog eat the pudding, I noticed that the background image was static and the div’s were floating over the background. So I wondered, how did she do that?And the answer is: ‘background-attachment: fixed;’ in the place where the background image is defined…
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What to do with fido when you can’t stand him any more.
If your dog is really neurotic, or stupid, or just bugs you in some other way, you can get rid of him by sending him to the dog island.Finally somewhere to send Buster! He wouldn’t be too bad if he wasn’t part shark (Has to keep moving or he will die).