Comments on: One more tech bleg

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:23:46 +0000

Xrlg, fudge, you’re funny. Hope you got the answer you needed, ’cause I can’t help.

By: David

David — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:47:08 +0000

in the stylesheet, find :

#sidebar {
border-top: 1px solid black;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;

change or remove the border references….cuz if you scroll the page down, you got one down
there too.

By: AlphaPatriot

AlphaPatriot — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:13:07 +0000

BTW, would you please consider increasing the number of characters in your RSS feed? Perhaps even publishing the whole thing? When I look for other bloggers doing posting on a specific story I search using my RSS reader (200 blogs and growing). If I don’t find it there, I don’t link to it so if you don’t mention the words I search for in the first couple of lines of your post then I don’t read it. I know you post on more stuff that I want to read!

By: AlphaPatriot

AlphaPatriot — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:08:43 +0000

OK, I’m just guessing here, but . . .

The bar is totally unrelated to the graphic because the graphic is 720 pixels wide and ends in the middle of that bar.

Thus I hypothisize that the bar is related to the column.

To start the column you have a div with an “id=sidebar”. Your CSS says:
#sidebar {
border-top: 1px solid black;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

That says to put a border at the top and another at the bottom. Sure enough, there is another bar at the bottom just under “Terms of Use & Legalese” where the div ends and the next div (footer) starts.

I suggest removing the “border-top” from your sidebar element and seeing if that fixes the problem.

BTW, there’s a line out to the right of your footer that’s just sorta sitting there floating in space for no apparent reason. Your CSS reads:
#footer {
background-color: #fff;
border-right: 1px solid #959596;
}

I recommend removing the “border-right” line.

So ’tis not “stupid PHP” but rather “stupid CSS”, a much more common complaint and one I heartedly agree with.

And I just don’t think that newer guns are superior to my 1911. Just less complicated, less pretty and more like a toy. You’ll take my Kimber from me when I can trade it in for a laser gun or maybe one of the Trekkie phasers, not before.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:37:09 +0000

H&K’s are fine guns. Can’t go wrong with them. I’m no fan of 1911s as newer guns on the market (like the H&K, Glock and Sig) are superior. For the price of one of those conversion kits, you can just buy a 22 pistol (like a walther p22). I’d just get the Walther and then you don’t have to swap barrels and slides.

By: d

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:13:05 +0000

SayUncle – I had previously asked about the Glock. I had actually been shooting (it was 7 seven years ago now) a H&K USP45. Having spoken to the owner, I’m going to go that way I think. He also recommended “a 911 government model with a 22 conversion unit so I can blast away all day for a couple of dollars”. Thought that was pretty cool as well…

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:22:27 +0000

I knew I could count on you

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:18:07 +0000

I’m no tech wizard, but my first thought is that you might want to set Insert_Stupid_Annoying_Line_Under_Monkey_Uncle to “no.”