Geeky Ramblings

Oh man, this had me on the floor laughing …

I was kicking through my blog posts just checking out what ad’s Google’s AdSense program would serve and this ad showed up…

I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to know what it would link to … but I clicked on it anyway. As it happens, it took me to eBay … no used tuna though

For the longest time I was looking for a way to make nested ordered lists in HTML show up correctly.

Usually, when you do an ordered list, you get something like this …

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 1.2
1. Item 1.2.1
2. Item 1.2.2

… which really annoyed me, because you couldn’t have meaningful identifiers on the nested lists.

A few days ago I found a bit of CSS that would correct this…

<style>
<!--
OL        { list-style-type: decimal  }  /* 1 2 3 4 5 etc. */
OL OL     { list-style-type: lower-alpha}      /* a b c d e etc. */
OL OL OL  { list-style-type: lower-roman }  /* i ii iii iv v etc. */-->
-->
</style>

Now the same list will show up with the first level list using numbers, the 2nd level list using lowercase alpha, and the 3rd level lower case roman numbers.

Something like this…

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 1.2
1. Item 1.2.1
2. Item 1.2.2

Which is pretty cool, imho.

If you check the bottom of this page, you SHOULD be able to see a graphical representation of recent posting.

Not very exciting, but could be interesting.

… for eServer Magazine, iSeries Edition!

The topic of the interview wasn’t particularly ground breaking … just about being an iSeries Blogger.

Ryan told me that my blogs (both this one and IMHO) were not displaying properly when viewed with Internet Explorer. Every time they visited a page, IE wanted to download the page instead of displaying it.

I had just made some tweaks to the web server, so I figured I had screwed something up.

I searched and searched, but couldn’t figure out what I had broken.

I decided the best way to figure out the problem would be to sniff the line with an ethernet sniffer program to see what was actually being sent down the wire.

When I did, I noticed the http ‘content-type’ header was blank.

Turns out the Wordpress configuration option that contains the content-type value was empty. I had neglected to run the upgrade script on the Wordpress database when I finished the upgrade to version 1.5!

Oopsie.

After I ran the upgrade script, the pages displayed fine in IE.

Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates will be awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth Wednesday for his outstanding contribution to enterprise.

Reuters.com

This is very disturbing. And I usually hold the british in high regard. This turn of events lowers them a notch or two (Sorry Martin).

I registered the ‘geekyramblings.org’ domain today … no major reason. It was available, it was cheap, so I grabbed it.

For now it simply redirects you to david.fallingrock.net … not sure if I’ll do anything else with it.