Aero = Jessica Simpson

Sorry about posting a link to another blog, but this made me smile. Aero is the technological equivalent of Jessica Simpson.

http://vistarapedme.com/2007/07/09/aero-jessica-simpson

Opera Mini Vs iPhone

As my regular reader will know, I love Apple and everything they do. I especially love the iPhone and it’s over priced, over hyped shinyness. I actually do love Opera, it works great on my phone, renders all pages perfectly and is small and quick to use. Oh and it’s free.

I got the following video from their site. I love to see Apple’s propaganda machine working against them :-)

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

Download hi-res ogg version here

Opera 4 is out in beta now so go download a copy!

nic.im change their whois search

Probably not the most exciting thing in the world, but I noticed today that nic.im (the Isle of Man registery) has changed the address of their whois looking. If you want to update your jwhois.conf file to use the new URL, replace the current nic.im section with the following:
"www\\.nic\\.im" {
http = "true";
http-method = "GET";
http-action = "/public/whois.mth";
form-element = "domainname";
}

As it’s a web lookup rather than a proper whois server, you will need either elinks or lynx installed. Also you’ll get some extra shit back (like headers and links), but hey you can’t have everything!

Ban Everything!!!!

Help the UK government ban everything

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Changing the load order of a webpage

I had an exciting weekend of writing a wonderful ‘webcast’ system. Although it worked fine over the LAN, I found I had a problem when I uploaded it to the internet. The problem as a little weird. The system work by loading a bunch of images then used a version of 1pixelout‘s mp3 flash player to play the audio. The problem I had was that half the images were loading, then the flash started loading. A user would then have to wait until the mp3 had finished playing before the final images were loaded.

I searched high and low on the net to see if there was a magical way to control the loading order. In the end I found this really elegant solution to load the flash as the last item.

In your style sheet, give the style you want to appear last: display: none;Then in the body tag change the display to block using onload:document.getElementById('audio').style.display = 'block';"

I’ve tested this in Firefox and IE on both Linux and Windows and it seem to work perfectly.

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