L.A.B. Unleashed

Although you should know, I am not a big fan.  I’m sure that is because I never celebrated Halloween as a child … something about it being "The Devil’s Holiday" … but that’s another story!   Anyway, although I personally do not enjoy dressing up in costume, I do like watching others have all the fun.  Every year in Charlestown there is an enormous Halloween Parade around Monument Square.  When I say enormous … think 1,000 kids dressed in everything from little fairies and witches, to more creative choices like the parking meter we saw last year … genius!!  Oh … and there are dogs too!  We always just tie a festive bandanna around Kobe’s neck, but other dogs go all out … superheroes, angels, devils, and oh yeah … hot dogs!!  Priceless!!  So even though I’m not a huge fan of Halloween, I am glad others are enjoying it to the full extent and I do take joy in watching them celebrate!!

So here is a little Halloween treat for you … geek style:

I found this last night, and guess what … it is so easy to email any cell phone and have it be delivered as a text message!!  This is going to be perfect for Remy … I’m going to spend some time implementing this today!!

Seriously … Internet Explorer just needs to go away or clean up its pathetic act.  The latest web programming issue I encountered nearly threw me over the edge.  I wanted to do some cool lightboxing on the new site, and of course Safari and Firefox handle all the javascript wonderfully!  And then there is IE … always a completely different story.  The grey background would not cover all of my divs on the screen, and was doing all kinds of funky things.  Why should I have to take out the cool lightboxing and make my Safari/Firefox users suffer?  Well, I won’t take it out, I’ll just case it out for different behavior in IE.  It just annoys me that two things on my site are now special cased for IE.  It is to be expected I suppose, as the code base and spiffy new features increase! 

By the way, I am using Craig Ambrose’s super cool inline Redbox Plugin.  Love it … but hate IE … have I mentioned that?!  Please … if you are reading this entry using Internet Explorer (especially < 7.0) right now, go directly to the Firefox website and down load a new browser here!  It will change your world … trust me!