divine angst

Once I finished reveling in my techie geniusness, I took a small break. The followup from Last Project #1 just landed on my desk in the form of a Giant Red Binder. I needed to figure out where to put it because, my desk? A pit. A pit covered in paper. I shudder to think how much paper I have wasted in this job.

So I cleaned off my desk and, in the process, tidied up my shelves as well. All of MY books are now neatly stacked at the edge of my desk. Ready to go home with me sometime in the next 10 days. All the paper on my desk that needs to go with me also (personal notes and lists, phone numbers, etc.) is also in a neat little stack. I haven’t delved into the drawers yet, but that’s next. I’ll be rescuing my emergency food stash (instant oatmeal and Easy Mac), some personal papers I’ve filed, and the other desk necessities: lotion, nail file, change for the Coke machine. I can wait to pull those things out; they’re fine staying hidden for the time being.

It’s getting closer!

I know, I know, I haven’t posted today! I’ve been dealing with some crappy CSS issues, trying to figure out why Internet Explorer sucks so much. (I know why it sucks so much, but the specific ways IN WHICH it sucks and how to FIX THEM has been preoccupying me today.)

At any rate, about ten minutes ago, I discovered that almost any funky display issues you have with IE (on a Mac, at least) where you are using CSS to create certain visual effects (offset boxes and the like) can possibly be fixed by either adding another <div> tag, right around the affected text, or by replicating inline styles that should be inherited right into the nested tags.

If you’re not into CSS, that probably makes no sense. Sorry. Of course, IE isn’t the only browser with issues. Safari, for some reason, doesn’t like certain kinds of elements to have certain kinds of tags and will make things look funky even when Firefox displays them with no problems. (I can’t remember exactly what the situation was now; I was so frantic at the time that I was copying and pasting and deleting and copying and suddenly things worked when I got rid of a “width” style. Maddening.)

At any rate, things are working now. (None of thise was for THIS site, of course. I went through all that pain AGES ago.) I feel good: I always have liked finding and fixing problems, of course. The process was tiresome, sure, but I fixed it in the end, and I did it mostly on my own.