A quote I liked
"Being a System Administrator is like being the phone company. Nobody ever calls up to say 'you know, this thing works great. Thanks!'"
GCSE/AS/A2 notes dump - a meme
I just had to go through my notes from AS Science last year to dig up the notes I took on photosynthesis for the A2 Science coursework (I have to continue keeping these notes untill the end of the A2 course for a synoptic paper).
It occured to me that I have a shitload of notes piled up. I've pretty much got all my notes from the 5 GCSE's and 3 A Levels I've done (and near finishing when it comes to the A Levels), but what do I do with them once I'm done?
Afterwards I'll be onto taking even more notes, for 3-4 years at uni.
But the notes I already have could still be useful, as a sort of info dump. They're not much use in their current form, as notes that only I can look up and search through, and even then with a lot of effort.
So I had the idea (ergo. the meme in the title) to possibly digitize this information at some point, parse it for semantic information and organize it in an easilly accessable and searchable format. Do this with the degree information too, and you've got some 6-7 years worth of information on a very wide variety of topics.
Of course I'll probably never do this, like many of my projects, but I still thought it was an interesting idea.
Tech: CSS Menus (again)
After a load of faffing about (because I was sure I could get the buggers to work correctly without resorting to some crappy DHTML, I have finally gotten the CSS menu's (that I plan to use in CMS v4) working correctly.
They are now working 100% under Opera 7 and Mozilla 1.xx, and degrade without any problems in most other browsers (such as MSIE).
In browsers that don't support [insert non-A element here]:hover, the top menu item should display a simple link (as I want it to do).
For a look at the test document I've been fiddling with for the past couple of days, see the related link below (on my laptop, so sometimes may be unavailable due to it not being logged onto my account or being switched off by evil Darren-like people).