Our Buffalo, NY tap water has this strange chemical smell during the last week or so. Just so you know its not me being paranoid, it is (e:terry) who pointed it out and he never smells anything.
The smell lingers after the water is gone and you can taste the smell in the shower vapor. It even has a bad aftertaste after brushing your teeth. The water filtration system int he kitch manages to remove the bad taste which means it is some sort of filterable chemical.
Anyone else have this problem? it is making me insane and no it is not the extra chlorine summer zebra muscle chlorine taste. It is something entirely new. I think I will bring it up at the block club meeting tonight and see if it is happening elsewhere.
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06/18/2008 13:26 #44701
The Chemical Smell In The WaterCategory: water
06/17/2008 22:22 #44697
Firefox 3 againCategory: web
Seriously, the full zoom is amazing. It zooms everything text and media. This means that finally, you can design for normal vision and vision impaired people can zoom for till they can see what they need to. These are th kind of changes that browsers should have implemented from the get go. It beats having all those custo reize text button on every site and lets every aspect of the page zoom. Heck I even zoom sometimes now when I want to concentrate on an area of the page.
On a mac you hold down command and + or command and -. NOt sure the ocmbo on a PC but you should definately try it with Firefox 3
Zoomed estrip on Safari - fucked up only text zooms
Zoomed estrip on Firefox 3 - everything zooms
It even remembers the zoom level when you return to the site you set it for.
On a mac you hold down command and + or command and -. NOt sure the ocmbo on a PC but you should definately try it with Firefox 3
Zoomed estrip on Safari - fucked up only text zooms
Zoomed estrip on Firefox 3 - everything zooms
It even remembers the zoom level when you return to the site you set it for.
joshua - 06/18/08 12:12
IE 4 lyfe!
Actually I distinctly remember you complaining a couple years ago that the IE usage statistics for the site were too high.
IE 4 lyfe!
Actually I distinctly remember you complaining a couple years ago that the IE usage statistics for the site were too high.
jon - 06/18/08 11:31
I demand more things to be awesome.
Mac's are awesome.
FF3 is equally as awesome.
Zoom (on either) is also awesome.
I demand more things to be awesome.
Mac's are awesome.
FF3 is equally as awesome.
Zoom (on either) is also awesome.
jim - 06/18/08 11:03
And WebKit nightlies have insanely fast javascript. SquirrelFish, yikes. :::link:::
Still no full page zoom, though. Yay, competition!
And WebKit nightlies have insanely fast javascript. SquirrelFish, yikes. :::link:::
Still no full page zoom, though. Yay, competition!
zobar - 06/18/08 09:26
I downloaded ff3 yesterday but I haven't got a chance to play with it. I really dislike it when web designers decide tinytiny text is teh kewliez, but when you can only zoom the text it often screws up the site design. I like the feature of Mobile Safari where you can double-tap an element and it will zoom to fit [though it seems there's still some bugs in it] - especially since it makes it so easy to crop out advertising. There's also the global Mac OS screen zoom which I like but keep forgetting about - opt-cmd-equals and opt-cmd-minus [turn it on & configure in System Preferences->Universal Access].
- Z
I downloaded ff3 yesterday but I haven't got a chance to play with it. I really dislike it when web designers decide tinytiny text is teh kewliez, but when you can only zoom the text it often screws up the site design. I like the feature of Mobile Safari where you can double-tap an element and it will zoom to fit [though it seems there's still some bugs in it] - especially since it makes it so easy to crop out advertising. There's also the global Mac OS screen zoom which I like but keep forgetting about - opt-cmd-equals and opt-cmd-minus [turn it on & configure in System Preferences->Universal Access].
- Z
06/17/2008 20:10 #44696
Americana and Pearl Street and ChangeCategory: random
The new firefox is great. You should get it
I wish I had something important to write about. Mostly, I have just been concentrating on work.
Now that the various lodgers are gone we have been slowly converting back to house mode. (e:matthew) is on this super pre July 4th Americana kick so the room is red white and blue.
Finally, the red couch I bought for (e:matthew) for his birthday - has a home.
The closet is still messy. I wonder if we should paint the drawers in the closet all red white and blue.
(e:mathew) and I headed down to Pearl Street Brewery last night to see (e:ladycroft) before she went back to Qatar. You can see pics on (e:metalpeter,44695)
It was great seeing her. 15 peeps showed up including (e:souternyankee) who I had not seen in so long and minus (e:imk2), who I had seen the day before . It was nice to catch up with everyone and Pearl street was beyond accomodating for us, making one big tables and even taking our pictures with a bunch of different cams. I wish I caught our waiters name because he was really one of the best waiters I ever had.
The Tenants
Afterwards, we stopped by the tenants to pick up the oh, so late rent. One of our tenants paid rent like 15 days late - in change - including pennies. I was fine with her being late because I am nice like that but havig to count out change including pennies is seriously ridiculous.
Not to mention that they never re-imbursed me for the fine we got for them not putting out the trash like she promised. She is movng out to south carolina in July. I think its time to let all those tenants go and just start over. That will give me time to redo the bathroom before new students move in, in the fall. Hell, maybe we can just sell it as I am so sick of dealing with students that can't pay rent on time.
I wish I had something important to write about. Mostly, I have just been concentrating on work.
Now that the various lodgers are gone we have been slowly converting back to house mode. (e:matthew) is on this super pre July 4th Americana kick so the room is red white and blue.
Finally, the red couch I bought for (e:matthew) for his birthday - has a home.
The closet is still messy. I wonder if we should paint the drawers in the closet all red white and blue.
(e:mathew) and I headed down to Pearl Street Brewery last night to see (e:ladycroft) before she went back to Qatar. You can see pics on (e:metalpeter,44695)
It was great seeing her. 15 peeps showed up including (e:souternyankee) who I had not seen in so long and minus (e:imk2), who I had seen the day before . It was nice to catch up with everyone and Pearl street was beyond accomodating for us, making one big tables and even taking our pictures with a bunch of different cams. I wish I caught our waiters name because he was really one of the best waiters I ever had.
The Tenants
Afterwards, we stopped by the tenants to pick up the oh, so late rent. One of our tenants paid rent like 15 days late - in change - including pennies. I was fine with her being late because I am nice like that but havig to count out change including pennies is seriously ridiculous.
Not to mention that they never re-imbursed me for the fine we got for them not putting out the trash like she promised. She is movng out to south carolina in July. I think its time to let all those tenants go and just start over. That will give me time to redo the bathroom before new students move in, in the fall. Hell, maybe we can just sell it as I am so sick of dealing with students that can't pay rent on time.
06/17/2008 12:42 #44688
Firefox 3Category: web
I was just testing out the site on firefox 3 release candidate which I assume will be very much like the real firefox 3 being released this afternoon at 1PM and it is very much faster. The only thing that makes me sad is that some of my dev plugins don't work. I am sure they will work in time. Between Safari and Firefox upgrades - I vae no idea how IE is going to keep up with their crap browser and their hillbilly javascript engine.
empireoflight - 06/17/08 13:33
I love how so many people call it "foxfire"
I love how so many people call it "foxfire"
06/15/2008 22:16 #44660
Google Maps Street View and FlashCategory: web
I was using Google maps street view to drive down linwood when I noticed that it was made with flash/flex. So much for an all javascript solution. It makes me wonder why they just didn't use flash form the get go like yahoo maps. It seems like it would have been a much easier solution to maintain.
when I noticed that it was made with flash/flex. So much for an all javascript solution. It makes me wonder why they just didn't use flash form the get go like yahoo maps. It seems like it would have been a much easier solution to maintain.
fellyconnelly - 06/16/08 20:01
Tiny I SEE YOU!!! haha
Tiny I SEE YOU!!! haha
tinypliny - 06/16/08 16:21
My brother and I are in gmaps for posterity. :) They caught us near the Ferry/Elmwood intersection on West Ferry walking toward Delaware Avenue - carrying a HUGE box of the La Nova Pizza. You can't see our faces, because it was cloudy. But that's us. We saw the gmaps camera go by as we walked with the pizza. I was too slow to wave because my brother took a minute to realize that it was *the* gmaps camera.
My brother and I are in gmaps for posterity. :) They caught us near the Ferry/Elmwood intersection on West Ferry walking toward Delaware Avenue - carrying a HUGE box of the La Nova Pizza. You can't see our faces, because it was cloudy. But that's us. We saw the gmaps camera go by as we walked with the pizza. I was too slow to wave because my brother took a minute to realize that it was *the* gmaps camera.
zobar - 06/16/08 08:50
GMaps only uses Flash for the street view - the rest is still DHTML. At AV I used the YMaps Flash API to embed maps when we needed them and it seemed a lot more polished. Sometimes it amazes me that the big software players are totally in denial about Flash. Even pre-merger Adobe knew SVG had no dukes and was using Macromedia Flash on their site. But Microsoft is using microsoft.com to push Silverlight, and even though the MPEG-4 & H.264 specs were written largely by Apple and eventually adopted by Adobe as part of Flash [which is a great thing any way you look at it] - their entire site is DHTML. Dang! Meanwhile I'm totally still a fanboy for Flex 3.
- Z
GMaps only uses Flash for the street view - the rest is still DHTML. At AV I used the YMaps Flash API to embed maps when we needed them and it seemed a lot more polished. Sometimes it amazes me that the big software players are totally in denial about Flash. Even pre-merger Adobe knew SVG had no dukes and was using Macromedia Flash on their site. But Microsoft is using microsoft.com to push Silverlight, and even though the MPEG-4 & H.264 specs were written largely by Apple and eventually adopted by Adobe as part of Flash [which is a great thing any way you look at it] - their entire site is DHTML. Dang! Meanwhile I'm totally still a fanboy for Flex 3.
- Z
:::link:::
yup, it smells so bad it makes me gag every time i forget and try to drink water from the tap. i smell it in the shower, i smell it when i flush the toilet, etc. but this is not the first time. i've smelled it last month too and then it went away for a couple of weeks.