David Ruppert

Ugh, I’m so done with today.

One.

Does anyone out there realize that products like DVR are extremely popular because of their ability to tape programs and when the user is ready to go back and watch the taped program, he/she has the ability to skip over commercials?

Does anyone out there want to watch a channel that consists solely of commercials?

No. Then STOP sending video files of commercials to my email address. I don’t care if you think they’re funny. They’re not. And Lord, have mercy on those souls that send me text jokes.

Two.

Why, when you schedule an appointment with an organization like Dish Network must they try to narrow the window down to five measly hours? When we all know good and well . . . they aren’t making it within that window. That window could be three weeks . . . and they’d show up three weeks and two days later.

Are you honestly telling me a FIVE hour window is not enough time to plan out your day and make it to my house for a simple house call? I could understand if this happened once. But I’ve had Dish Network out to my house no less than four times including installation, and they have never . . . repeating never . . . been here within the scheduled window in which they first promised.

So . . here I sit . . 56 minutes after my window has shut for the day, waiting. As if I have nothing to do. Just . . . you know . . . whenever you’re ready folks. I’ll wait here at your beck and call. Locked in my house. Tethered to my phone. Waiting to be graced with your presence.

A buddy of mine noticed that firebug recently stopped showing anchor styles when inspecting links. Typically he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but in this case . . much to my chagrin, he was right.

Well since this was clearly an immediate issue for him . . and I was busy with actual work he did some research and found that this was a bug in Firebug. [Huh, what are the chances?]

According to this article about Firebug not displaying anchor styles, there is a bug that the beta version [Firebug 1.1] fixes. I’ve downloaded the beta version and things seem to be working swimmingly.

I ran across a problem at the office a few days ago where a client was complaining about my Son of Suckerfish menus sticking open on a particular page in IE7. The issue was only happening on pages they had created, using templates that we had delivered, so of course I initially assume they’d done something wrong . . you know . . cause I’m judgmental like that.

Turns out that, without the below css update, if you click in an input field on a page using Suckerfish, then open the menus, they will not automatically close on mouse out.

This particular client page triggered an onfocus for the login box [currently very popular . . and annoying in my opinion] once the page loaded. So, without doing anything, the menus would stick open every time.

The simple fix consists of the following addition to your CSS:


#menu li:hover, #menu li.hover {
   position: static;
}


The fix has been around for a while, but I only recently ran into this problem. For more information on the problem, visit Matthew Ratzloff’s explanation at his blog on Built from source below:

Son of Suckerfish fix for IE7