We’ve had the property since Memorial Day and it’s starting to become clear who’s really made out on this deal.
Don’t get me wrong, we’re having a blast out there. There’s a lot of work to do, but we’ve gotten a decent amount done and we manage to fit in some relaxation each trip down.
I need to post some pictures of what we’ve accomplished at the property the past couple trips down, but right now all I think about is the event of the year . . . happening a few short miles from our new property.
Get ready.
Are you ready?
Cause it’s coming.
This very Saturday, the Naples Volunteer Fire Department will be holding its annual Demolition Derby.
TA-DAAAA!
You can’t be as excited as I am [I know you're thinking 'well, obviously', but whatever]. Ill try to take some pics, it should be quite a scene. Burly, smelly, unkempt farm boys and toothless children screaming at a pile of burning cars. An impressive display of Nascar hats and glorious facial hair it’s bound to be.
I’m twitching with anticipation.
Ok, simply using this as a code toolbox again, I don’t want to misplace some of these links.
I spent the better part of a day trying to get Thickbox to work with some existing [and fairly outdated] style switching code. In an attempt to avoid a typical, blow my top, crap on everyone outbursts, I decided to try something else.
While searching around the little interweb for Thickbox issues, I found a post on a forum about Greybox.
After taking a couple of minutes to drop in the code, it worked like a champ. So . . I’m keeping it.
No knock on Thickbox, just simply didn’t have time to troubleshoot anymore. Greybox seems to provide about the same result [and of course it validates], but instead of linking to a url with a querystring of variables and adding a class of “thickbox”, you simply link to the page with ‘ rel=”gb_page_center[520, 500]“‘ in your anchor tag. This is for linking to html documents . . it’s slightly different to create an image gallery like Lightbox JS has mastered.
Plus, it’s about 10kb less than Thickbox simply because of the absence of the jQuery library.
I just came across this dropdown alternative this morning. It’s just another pure CSS dropdown navigation, but it’s got a few new added features.
It’s based on Suckerfish but uses jQuery. One thing it has that was lacking with the original Suckerfish is the fact that it’s keyboard accessible . . a needed addition.
Its final weight is just over 20kb using jQuery’s production code. It’s fairly heavy compared to Suckerfish, unless of course you’re already using the jQuery base for something else in your site.
I don’t have a need for it right now, but might read a little more and give it a shot when I do.
Just dropping it here because I know it’ll be completely erased from my mind by lunch.
I’ve finally decided to pull the trigger on a new camera. I can’t tell you how long I’ve put it off.
My inherent thriftiness gives me the shakes when I consider buying something that I know . . . . know . . . . will be worth half its purchase price within about 2 months.
This is a little ironic considering several months ago I purchased an iPhone with the understanding that one day [uhh . . . today actually], a better version of that phone would be selling for half what I shelled out for it.
Authors note: I threw up a little in my mouth as I typed that.
Regardless, I finally eased my ferocious grip on my wallet and brought home a new Panasonic Lumix FZ-18K. I’ve always like the Lumix line of cameras because of a larger than normal zoom and very crisp photo.
This camera leaves little to be desired as well. Most professional reviews are positive minus some less than stellar comments on low light photographs. I haven’t yet experienced this problem.
This could be due to the fact that, one . . . I haven’t taken many [if any] low light photos so far. Or two, I’m about as amateur as it gets when reviewing digital cameras. Lets face it, I get ice cream headache as soon as someone even mutters the term aperture or exposure.
So my new camera courting phase begins.
The ol’ girl’s finally starting to show her age.