journal: archive

Back to journal main page

mambo printing CSS tip

My journal's venturing into new areas with this... I should probably post it somewhere else, too, so that people might find it.

If you think that with Mambo, you don't need to create a separate media=”print” CSS file, then you should at least take care of hiding the print button from your printouts (Mambo doesn't do this by default). I'm hoping td.buttonheading doesn't control anything else than that print-sendtoafriend row of buttons. Anyway, I reckon that no element named buttonheading will contain anything else than buttons, and you can't click on those on paper anyway, so this is probably safe:

@media print {
  td.buttonheading a{
   display:none;
  }
}

Add this to your site's CSS file. Try it with your browser's print preview. Voilà!

Wed 2005-06-29 20:21 in tech No comments #link

Book read: Addicted to Mediocrity

I read most of Franky Schaeffer's Addicted to Mediocrity: Contemporary Christians and the Arts in the weekend. It was good, though I'll still want to look at the Q&A section more carefully. Tero, Hankku's dad recommended it.

Tue 2005-06-28 20:45 in diary No comments #link

Frank Dietz

Men with Faith - Sacrifice or Sacrilege Part 6

An inspiring reading about the nature of life that Christians might lead.

Mon 2005-06-27 09:37 in links No comments #link

midsummerfest

No e-patents: noepatents.eu.org / swpat.ffii.org / www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Going to Keuruu, there's a midsummer conference (konffa) by the pentacostal church. Summer's hot and swell, I'm trying to work but it's hard to get even 6h/day done. Lotsofstuff, but no time to think about the past right now.

Fri 2005-06-24 15:28 in diary No comments #link

Mebibytes Schmebibytes

Ever wondered what that MiB storage unit is? I did, today.

Mon 2005-06-13 00:26 in diary No comments #link

britelite,britelite

Today, it was summer all of the sudden - - - warmth in- and outside of me. I've been telling myself to remember and to realize, that I'm really free. Today even that, is quite obvious.

I haven't stopped being naïve nor self-centric, but still - today, just now I'm healthy, and mostly happy.

While writing that last sentence, my head started to hurt. (Turns out my monitor was at 60 Hz, I just reinstalled Windoves). I'm not working as much as I should but I'm just pretending to be worried about that. I'm concentrating more on learning to get some sorts of routines in my life - in order to most of the time not keep them. They're something to make life more safe - if I don't have to think about what to do each minute. Though even the schedule isn't forcing me to do anything, it gives me some sort of a justification for not starting to wonder if I have any interest for doing, well, anything at all.

On Monday evening, I created myself a daily schedule: at 7.30 wakeup, eat, read the Bible, go out (rollerskating or something), at 9 start working, at 12 eat lunch, after eating continue working. Quite simple, huh? I've been living by that routine for three days now - nevertheless, I haven't woken up at 7.30 once, nor started working at nine. So what's the point? It still seems to help me keep ahold of life.

What did you think about this entry? I'm sure you thought something. Please comment (=.

Thu 2005-06-09 15:16 in diary 4 comments #link

illusory eclipse

I guess I know more about how to live healthily in practice, than I knew a year ago when I last lived alone in a private flat. Still I seem to get stuck on the same sorts of problems. I get easily lonely and feel isolated when living in a flat of my own, without people around things easily tend to seem... meaningless. And when everything is meaningless, the difference between right and wrong starts to fade. I need people, being with someone who's pain (and happiness, why not) I can understand. It makes me see clearly, well, at least, that some things matter to at least some people.

How in the world does this, then, work with believing in God, with the fact that He is Justice in person? I have no clue. I'm still in part some sort of a naturalist, there's something about Faith, about really Trusting the Bible which I haven't grasped (which many in Ryttylä seem to have). Though I may in principle believe that the Bible is God's eternal word, I still need to constantly question most of what is said. Still, I'm longing more for God's way than for any other direction - most of the time.

Fri 2005-06-03 20:28 in diary No comments #link

Logitech and Musicmatch

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Logitech usb mouse from a flea market in Riihimäki. Now I decided to install the software that came with the mouse on a CD, and surpricingly, it's relatively high quality - usually such additional software coming with hardware is just annoying. There's WildTangent: clones from classic games such as Pacman (in this Pig Pen version pacman is a pig) - and a nice-and-clean mouse configuration tab for the Windows Control Panel Mouse window.

Musicmatch Jukebox was an interesting acquaintance. It's quite comfortable to use though it suffers some quite basic flaws both in UI and functionality, such as the playlist window only being horizontally resizable (uh) and being incapable of playing OGG files. I muchly like the way Musicmatch makes browsing music by albums, genres, tempos, moods, situations etc. possible: with a window very similar to the standard Windows File Open windows (see screenshot). A nice contrast to say, Winamp, the Library of which I still don't intuitively master very well. Most of those classification types (tempos, moods, situations, ...) don't seem to contain any songs, but the UI is nice. The version of Musicmatch I tested is "7.10.1070Logitech". Though it's old, that's not really relevant in terms of this UI perception.

Currently, I'm undecided between iTunes and Quintessential Player. Winamp has its benefits, too, but its internet TV library lists porn channels so I uninstalled it.

(later: P.S. to get OGG support for iTunes, download the Ogg Vorbis component for Quicktime.)

Thu 2005-06-02 10:48 in tech No comments #link

in peace from not myself

Been living a bit more peacefully than usual for a couple of days, in my new flat (in Hervanta) - why? I've got no internet connection on my home computer yet. I guess I have some sort of a slight emotional addiction to the internet. Got to try to learn from yhe experience. So far I've listed a bunch of things I'd like to do if I had the connection, such as changing my address from Ryttylä to this new flat, downloading E-Sword and searching information on the ethics of Microsoft - plus posting to this journal. Not that I could, even if I had the connection - coincidentally, also my ISP has been down since something like Friday. [They got it back up on something like Thursday morning...]

Thu 2005-06-02 10:43 in tech No comments #link