Blog housekeeping-ery, or, Problem Solved

As you will recall, I'd been dabbling a bit in Mozilla's Firefox browser, and was fairly impressed with it, especially the way it latches onto my color scheme and won't let it go.

However, there was one slight problem:  As you see up top there, my banner has a nice purple border around it.  Firefox wasn't displaying the border all the way around - it'd refuse to display the right side thereof, making the banner look...well...butt-uglier than it already is. (grin)

Well...I just figured out why.  And, as usual, it's an Eye Dee Ten Tee™ error on the part of the King & Tyrant.

(For the Uninitiated™, just write the digits Eye Dee Ten Tee.  You'll figure it out.)

I had neglected to extend the border properties past the 600-pixel default of the template.  And my banner is 754 pixels wide.

Oops.

All's well that ends well, however.  The problem is now fixed; the banner looks just like it should, and I have a lot  less need for IE nowadays than I used to, which is not good news for Billy Gates. (grin)

Virus alert

Or should that be "Spew Alert"???

This comes courtesy of the Mothergoose:

Subject: Virus Alert

If you receive an email entitled "Bedtimes" delete it IMMEDIATELY.  Do not open it.  Apparently this one is pretty nasty.  It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.  It demagnetizes the strips on ALL of your credit cards.  It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR, and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play.  It will program your phone auto dial to call only 0898 numbers.  This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. 


IT WILL CAUSE YOUR TOILET TO FLUSH WHILE YOU ARE SHOWERING.  It will drink ALL your beer.  FOR GOD'S SAKE, ARE YOU LISTENING??


It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company.  It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine.  If the "Bedtimes" message opens in a Windows 95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.  It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk.


WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.


And if you don't send this to 5000 people in 20 seconds, you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, sending sparks that will ignite the person nearest you.  Send this warning to everyone!!!  THERE'S A LOT OF SADNESS IN THE WORLD!  Right now, as you read this, 17 Million people are having SEX!!!  And look at you - you're on the computer!!!!

Mheh.