I just installed a new FTP client: FileZilla. I’ve been using LeechFTP for years, but as its site states, there’s been no development on it for years.
(I used FTP Explorer before that — which has suddenly resumed development and started charging — and before that I was using WS FTP, which had a free version way back when.)
I don’t even know how I came across FileZilla. It’s in stable release and under current development/maintenance, so that’s good. It’s hard to tell after just a few minutes of use, but it appears to be faster than Leech.
There is a new maintenance release of Firefox out today, I think. If you take a look at issues in the release notes, you’ll see a disabled, work-in-progress, enable-at-your-own-risk “single window mode.”
In one of my previous Firefox gripes, I called for just such a feature. When I discussed it with Lewis he claimed that this would disobey the wishes of the site developer. I admonished him, and he cried.
Speaking of old gripes, my next big move will be bringing back my old posts, at least as far back as the last version of the site. I may just upload the old files, but I’m considering manually entering each post into the current version of the site. If I (re)insert entries from one version back, I might as well do it for all of them. I like this idea a lot for two reasons, one of which is vain and one of which is functional: I will enjoy seeing my “Archives” section date all the way back to 2002; And the old entries will become completely searchable. Plus there’s Permalinks … I might lock out comments on old posts, though.
So there’s a new Nine Inch Nails album out.
Somehow, I didn’t know about it until after it was released. Usually I keep abreast of these things by checking out the NIN page and The NIN Hotline.
The album, With Teeth, was released May 3 (or maybe May 5), 2005. I checked nin.com and lo and behold, they started regular updates on May 5, 2004. I swear to god I checked that site May 4, 2004. Since then? Not so much.
I got the album in DualDisc format. I almost went with the standard CD version, but the DD version included a video on the DVD side. It also has a discography and the album in 2.0 and 5.1 DVD-Audio.
I haven’t even listened to the whole thing yet. As soon as I listen to it a couple times, I’ll post some sort of review. (Traditionally I don’t like NIN albums at first but then appreciate them more the more I listen.) The disc included no book insert. Kind of weird, kind of dumb. It did, however, include a picture of Trent Reznor. If memory serves, that’s a first since Pretty Hate Machine, and in both cases the picture is distorted. Interesting.
Oh, and it’s a single disc, not a double disc like The Fragile, so don’t worry about paying twenty four bucks this time around.
Wordpress released version 1.5.1 Monday. I installed it Tuesday morning. Apparently it makes the system run faster.
Sometimes it disappears from my Windows taskbar. It’s possible that this occurs only when I have multiple Firefox windows open. I can retrieve the windows by either minimizing windows until I get to the one I want, or the simpler method of alt-tab. They’re always in alt-tab.
Sometimes I’ll be able to get one window back onto the toolbar but not all of them.
Yeah, this is a legitimate bug, unlike my typical Firefox gripes, which tend to be about omitted or clunky features.
Firefox Gripe: I want to be able to resize tabs within windows.
You know how some sites are still optimized for 800×600? You know how some center the used portion of the screen, some right justify it, and some (like ESPN.com) give extra crap to fill in all the way over to 1024? To conform 800×600 sites to what I want, I resize the window. But if I resize one site in a Firefox window, then I resize them all … I want to be able to resize the browser in one tab and leave the browsers in other tabs alone.
Until next time …
The front page will now validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Eat that, Lewis. Insert better-late-than-never “your site is down” joke here.
You’ll find two entries below that I wrote a couple weeks ago but never got around to uploading.
Based on the appearance of this site on flat-panel monitors and the fact that I have started to use a 1280×1024 screen resolution, I will be making some cosmetic changes to the site soon. Look out for that.
The front page now validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I can’t quite get it to work as XHTML 1.0 strict.
Big news today.
Besides the fact that Prince Charles and Camilla are getting hitched. Big news today.
Besides the fact that Prince Charles and Camilla are getting hitched.
Yahoo put out an official toolbar for Firefox. It’s 0.2 beta, but it offers immediate improvement over the homebrew version. Notably, the alerts work.
Yahoo put out an official toolbar for Firefox. It’s 0.2 beta, but it offers immediate improvement over the homebrew version. Notably, the alerts work.
If you’re viewing this site with Firefox, it should now display correctly. Well, there might be issues at 1280×1024. But don’t tell anybody.
I finally got this page to validate. Right now it validates under HTML 4.01 and CSS. I don’t know whether it’s worth my time to see if it would validate as anything different or perhaps “better.”
Here’s something that caught me by surprise: When I finally declared a doctype, it kept breaking the site, both in Firefox and IE. It appears that when either browser encounters an explicit doctype declaration, it holds the CSS to strict standards. Who knew? So I fixed all the CSS, and when I put the doctype declaration back in, everything worked. And my validation worked. So I’m in business. Scroll all the way down to see my validation buttons.
I got my Halo 2 Stats page to validate first, because there’s a lot less code there.
