It’s official… the guys I work with are leading the fashion trends.

The NY Times just published an article on how a short-sleeved dress shirt and a tie is ‘Nerdy, but nice.’

If only I had less than perfect vision I could get my Buddy Holly black rimmed glasses.

The whatever:hover technique/script to fix IE’s inability to apply css :hover selector attributes to elements – stopped working a while ago.

As it turns out, a ‘update’ to Windows now requires that the csshover.htc file needs a mime-type of text/x-component for IE to recognize it.

Editing the

/etc/mime.types

file and adding in

text/x-component                htc

and restarting Apache fixed the problem.

I hope that info helps someone else.

Normally web developers are complaining about IE rendering things wrong… but this is one exception which has me going crazy.

The problem deals with Firefox 1.5.0.4 Mac OS X and Macrodobia Flash 8.0.24.0.

We have a flash element which needs to be covered up by a (I cringe at the term) DHTML element which should be positioned over it.

This is a common problem which was ’solved’ over three years ago on all the major browsers. Macromedia/Adobe has a tech note relating to the problem with a ’solution’ — wMode=’transparent’.

Unfortunately this doesn’t work 100% of the time on FF on Mac. Veerle has a post on her blog about the exact same issue which she posted over a year ago.

Yet we still have stacking order problems with flash on FF Mac.

Here’s an image of the issue.

Notice how the sIFR title ‘Welcome to Engineering’ floats up above the absolutely positioned div.

Katie got me a new toy today for my birthday.

It’s a Palm Treo 650… an awesome phone, with email and web capabilities built in. So the first thing I tried was using it to get my GMail.

It has a built in mail client called VersaMail, which I tried and tried to connect to POP GMail but couldn’t get it to work.
I kept getting:
“There is a delay in server communication causing a timeout.”

Then, once I deleted the welcome email that comes on the phone, it finally connected.

So here’s my tip: If you’re having problems connecting VersaMail to your GMail account – be sure the welcome email is deleted out of your inbox before you ‘Get’ your messages.

I’ll post some more once I’m more familiar with how everything works.