I have been strugling with Cascading Style Sheets for the last couple of weeks. Somehow I couldn’t get my mind wrapped about a lot of the syntactic rules. Slowly I began to seriously doubt if I “still had it”. I had read tons of information, dumped numerous examples to my local disks for closer...
Read more →I have been struggling lately with the layout of my website. I’d like to bring all the pages under one common format, or at least one common theme. My intention was to make them all look like the entry page. At the same time I’d like to keep an eye on the latest developments...
Read more →This doesn’t look good: a fresh month without posting. I have to admit to you that I have been a little bit preoccupied lately, but that’s no reason for neglecting you of course. So please accept my apologies if you came here loyally every day and didn’t find any news. I promise I will...
Read more →It finally happened! The state owned telephone company OTE at long last made true on its promise to install the ISDN line into my appartement. Not exactly within the agreed upon time frame, but let’s not split hairs now over details. The important thing is that I’m now once more a fully connected citizen...
Read more →I woke up because my mobile phone rang. It was Yvonne. I was beaten. The fatigue of the journey had taken its toll. After a shower I got out on the streets and bought the local newspaper which I read through the adverts while having a cup of coffee at Carola’s coffee shop on...
Read more →Don’t worry, I’m not trying to sell you these tires. I just happen to have a picture of them on my desktop, and it as good as any other picture to test this feature in MovableType. After all you do want to see pictures once I’m started on my trip, don’t you? For now,...
Read more →… is that there are so many. Take for example HTML. Boy, I’ve been strugling with getting my blog page (Cretan Chronicles) present itself nicely in the same way as my main entry page, but unsuccessfully so far. The problem is that the graphics in the main page still rely heavily on tables for...
Read more →If you’ve come here, you probably read my last entry in Radio Userland’s blog. From now on this will be the place were we will chronicle our adventures in Crete. I still have some work to do to bring the layout of this section in line with the main layout, but I’ll figure that...
Read more →Eleven days no postings?! That’s not a good start, Luc. I plead guilty on all accounts. I have no excuses. But I have a great explanation! You see, when all of you were preparing for this Grande Bouffe event that is coming up, I have been chasing down webhosting companies for 7 days. The...
Read more →I succesfully added a live weather badge for Iraklio, just below the calendar. From the looks of it, the weather in Crete isn’t so bad. Nothing more to report.
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