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Free Money is a Pocket Away

Before I continue on my posts about saving money, lets take a look at how much people are LOOKING for money.  It is rather humbling.  Using a search phrase cataloger suggested by Google, we find the common searches with "Money" below.

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Lady GaGa

 

So I spoke to my good friend today about what he could possibly use as a new topic for his rant website, and he suggested that I write the rant myself, so here I go. Hope you guys can enjoy it.

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Tech Talk - CSS custom Attributes

Being a nerd, I will occasionally post some tech jargon here. Today, I will cover some basics on CSS custom attributes. Specifically:

[attr~="value"]{background-color: red;}

<div attr="value">SOME TEXT</div>

will produce

SOME TEXT

I was chatting with another programming buddy of mine just a little bit ago and he was working on some rounded corners for his page. I noticed how he was making them change colors and such by changing the whole class using Javascript, so I asked him why he was not just using custom css tag attributes.

Personally, I love using custom attributes with the method above because I can create a string of attributes and make use of my own shorthand for CSS.

One thing that I have found using this method though is that if you have two conflicting attributes, the first one takes priority.

A small example of how I might make use of something like this:

Code:

<style>
  [css~="font1"]{font: 12pt arial;}
  [css~="bkc000"]{background-color: #000;}
  [css~="textceee"]{color: #eee;}
  [css~="w200"]{width: 200px;}
  [css~="smShadow"]{-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #ccc;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #ccc;
    box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #ccc;}
</style>
<div css="font1 bkc000 textcee w200 smShadow">Shadowed Box 200 Pixles Wide with Black background and almost white 12pt Arial Text</div>

Would Produce:

Shadowed Box 200 Pixles Wide with Black background and almost white 12pt Arial Text

Keeping in mind that things like shadows and rounded corners may not work correctly in IE right now.

Please note that this method is not idea for most common day applications. Especially if you have a lot of static content or things that do not change on the page with Javascript or Ajax, then you are probably going to do just fine with using CSS classes.

A fridge that cooks too!

So I got home today.  It was a very off day to begin with, but apparently the day was not done playing it's jokes on me. Apparently my fridge's door had been open most of the day and the appliance bulbs inside had been on all day. Of course I just now find out that the bulbs inside of the fridge are primarily 60W Bulbs. Of course when you are only using the fridge for a few seconds, it is not an issue, but when it is cracked open just enough for the lights to be on... it becomes a small oven instead.

According to the temp on the door it was over 80 degrees F in the fridge.  Of course all the perishables had to be thrown out. The milk looked like it was ready to explode.

So Steve and I turned off the cooling unit on the fridge and emptied it. Steve put the frozen goods in the chest freezer and we went through what we could save.  Some of the things were still good, like condiments and some of the veggies, but most had to be thrown out.

I then went to the store and got $50 worth of staple style food. Okay, not all of it was, I also got little ice-cream cups, but ended up replacing a majority of basic foods anyway.

I guess the fridge was happy for the break. For a while now when the condenser had been working, the fridge had been very loud. Now after letting the fridge pretty much be off and thaw completely out, the condenser is quiet again.

With as cold as it is this evening, we just packaged up the good food and stuff into air tight containers and placed them outside. If anything some of them may freeze slightly as it is supposed to get down to 28 tonight.

Good time as any I guess to get started on some new recipes and working more with scratch ingredients for cooking.

Gun Safety

So I am on my way to a client this morning to do some programming when I hear about a 12 year old that gets shot in the head by his 13 year old friend that was trying to scare him. Apparently he thought the gun was unloaded. You can check out a printed version at 1190Kex.com.

Now, I may not be the best with guns, but even at a young age I understood that guns, true GUNS should not be pointed at people, unless you intend to KILL them. There are talks right now about if any charges are going to be pressed against the 13 yr old. Personally I feel that he should at least do community service and have to talk to some classes about gun safety.

The good news is that his friend is expected to survive the incident.

Oh wait, it gets better! Apparently the father left the gun out, propped up in a corner after he took his son duck hunting the day before. For that, shame on the dad. He should have to go through some gun safety classes himself at least.

People, take responsibility for your actions. Adults and teens alike.