http://www.fotiweb.com All things Foti! Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:27:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a forum that I frequent, someone asked how they could replace their arbitrary z-index values to only the range needed to get the job done. For example, if they had only 3 z-index values being used ("0", "30", "500") they wanted this to replace them to the smallest ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2008/06/06/replace-arbitrary-z-index-values-with-ordered-values/ This site is hosted at HostMySite.com. Yesterday, someone suggested I could change the Permalink structure of WordPress to give the URL's a friendlier look. Sounded like a good idea... but when I made the change, the site broke and I had no way to fix it. Some ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2008/02/03/thanks-hostmysite/ I finally got around to renting the DVD "An Inconvenient Truth." It was really an eye opener, and quite interesting. A major ecological change might be closer at hand than you think. I am definitely going to try and do my part to reduce my Carbon Footprint. ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2008/01/15/global-warming-global-warning/ This was sitting in my "waiting to be published" stuff for a LONG time. I meant to clean it up and include the images I used in my original example, but I never got around to it, so I'm just going ahead and publishing it "as is". :-) I ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/12/07/snowy-backgrounds/ This year, I'm thankful for... A baby on the way My lovable dog Friends and family A wonderful job But most importantly, I'm thankful for my amazing wife, Laura. Love you babe! :-) http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/11/21/happy-thanksgiving/ I've had pretty good service with Comcast for years, but over the past 12 months or so I've become increasingly unhappy with them. This week they've really pissed off a lot of users. It seems that Comcast disabled the serial (aka "data") port on their cable modems for users in ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/11/14/why-i-am-starting-to-hate-comcast/ Note: The code in this posting has been strongly influenced by the Yahoo UI Library (an EXCELLENT library). I've made some modifications, but in many cases my code was functionally equivalent (if not identical) to the code in the library. "Who" Should Do This Everyone writing JavaScript. "What" Is This Creating a single ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/10/31/javascript-namespaces/ I'm about to roll out some design changes which include a nifty "Syntax Highlighter". Code examples will now be much nicer looking. http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/10/31/syntax-highlighting/ There's been a lot of news in the past year about global warming, carbon footprints, and being environmentally friendly. I've never considered myself an environmentalist, but lately I've felt as though I'd like to do more for the environment. I should be able to train myself to use ... http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/10/24/trash-management/ I read an article on CNN today about parents registering domain names and setting up GMail and Hotmail email accounts for newborns when they're born. I think that's a great idea... setting aside a little bit of cyberspace realty. http://www.fotiweb.com/2007/08/23/parents-getting-domain-names-for-newborns/