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I just noticed my blog looks awful in IE7 and even worse in IE8. Are there any html gurus in the readership that would be kind enough to tell me whats wrong?
Update: I switched to the “classic” theme and then back to the theme I like and the site is now rendering properly in IE7. There appear to be a few icon images missing, I’ll have to dig those up from somewhere.
Popularity: 8% [?]
The next few months might bring some dry reading for the visitors to my blog. The camera I do 99% of my photographic work with has died silently sometime this past week. It’s not that the camera is dead, but it might as well be, as it appears the imaging chip has failed, or the circuitry that processes the signal from the chip.
Here’s a shot of the sprinkler controller I’ve been working on.
That picture was taken in a sun lit room, with overhead lights and a work lamp on. Plus the camera’s AI fired the flash at full power.
I’ll be contacting Nikon regarding repair, but unfortunately, I’m pretty sure it’s the end of the line for this cam. With 3rd quarter taxes coming shortly, I’m not in a position to make a big purchase right now, so it might be a few months before I get a new cam.
If I get desperate enough, you might see some awful pictures from my cellphone on here!
Addendum:
The camera in question is a Nikon Coolpix 5700, which is listed as one of the models affected by the Sony ccd failure problem
Update:
Although my problem doesn’t fit the description of the current “service advisory”, Nikon is going to check it out. At best they’ll repair it for free, at worst, they’ll give me a quote on repairs. If it’s within the price range of a new ‘throwaway’ digital, I’ll get it fixed. Otherwise I might just grab an HP / Epson / “insert brand-x here” throwaway to get me by until I can buy something nicer.
Popularity: 41% [?]
I’ve moved the blog to a new host. The old host wasn’t really that bad but they did seem to get ’slow’ at times, and there were problems with their logging and apache stats.
Right now the Counterize plugin for wp is offline, pending me bringing its massive 40 mb table over from the old host. I don’t think my readers need Counterize for anything, so it shouldn’t be much of an effect on the general reading of the website.
If anyone notices anything else out of place, please drop me an e-mail. My address is gordonthree at gmail dot com.
Popularity: 11% [?]
It seems that my article on PCB Photolithography and Inkjet printers has surpassed the older articles on LED Sensors. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with sensors. I still get quite a few e-mails about them, mostly folks asking specifically how to do something, or what the secret is. Honestly, I don’t know any more about them then what I’ve written. Most of my experiments took place on a breadboard, and were cobbled together from educated guesswork, trial and error, and a lot of reading. Perhaps I’ll revisit led sensors this summer – my PCB fabrication skills have really improved, and I can try making some ‘key pads’ which seems to be a popular request and application.
Jeff Han has started his own company selling his multi-touch technology. He never did reveal the ’secrets’ to that impressive led matrix video which is so popular. From a business stand point, I can see protecting your IP assets, but led’s as sensors is old technology, I don’t think anyone today has a patent leg to stand on. In that light, perhaps if we all e-mail Jeff he’ll reveal his secrets to us.
Anyway, be sure to check out the ten most popular posts in the sidebar column. You can also check out the different project categories; each category has its own list of popular posts.
Thanks for reading!
Popularity: 12% [?]
Seeing as how my project log is more than a year old now, it is overdue for a new coat of paint.
Presenting “I feel dirty 1.0 by The studio ST team”. I’m not sure about the name, but I do like the little bit of color, but still mostly plain white. Hey, I like plain, but a friend thought my original choices of all white (like Water 1.1) were just too plain, so here we are.
I think I’ve copied all my mods from the old theme, if anyone happened to be viewing the instance I was making changes, well, it probably looked a little funky.
Popularity: 17% [?]