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Tenderizing Meat

Hi there!

Here’s a helpful tip.

In order to relieve work week stress, try tenderizing meat with your fist instead of a gavel or mallet. It is infinitely more satisfying.

Happy Christmas, ZSNES! (*and the rest of you normal people)

ZSNES has one of the coolest little easter eggs built in!!!!!

I’m sitting here playing Wizardry V for a bit before bed.

I pressed “ESC” to get to the menu to change a setting in the emulator, and what do I see in the background except

SANTA AND HIS REINDEER DASHING ACROSS THE SCREEN!!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays to all of you who have made ZSNES possible:

Main Coders

* zsKnight
* _Demo_
* pagefault

Contributors

* Pharos
* teuf
* relnev
* prometheus
* theoddone33
* EvilTypeGuy
* stainless
* aaronl
* MKendora
* kode54
* zinx
* amit
* Khan Artist
* hpsolo
* Kreed
* Neviksti

And the same to the rest of you out there as well :)

edit: I just read the ZSNES message boards and have edited this post to make it a *little* less obvious. I can’t spoil *all* the fun…

IE, DHTML, onclick, and anonymous functions

So! I’m using the DOM to create dynamic popups, and I’ve just discovered that in order to create something that will work across all browsers without having to tell IE that an element is itself, you should us an anonymous function, i.e.:

myNewNode.onclick = function(){alert("Testing!");};

After adding the onclick property of the node (NOT via using setAttribute), you may *then* add the node as an appropriate child node to other elements on the page. Or, assuming that you’ve kept a reference to the node and didn’t simply leave it on the heap somewhere known only to JavaScript, you may add it later :)

IE7 and border-bottom bug

I’ve just discovered that IE7 has issues with border-bottom. It doesn’t seem to want to always draw the bottom border of text placed within a <h4> for some reason. This is the solution:

display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom;

Edit: You know what? I think I might be the first person to publish this one ^_^

Sweet Silence

…FINALLY.

I finally know the cause of the sound that’s been plaguing me for the past 11 months.

It’s my Sony Playstation 2 (pictured on the left). I thought it was my color cube, or my television, or my fan, or my monitor, or my speakers, or my video card…but no! It was the PS2! The PS2 also functions as my primary DVD player, and it’s actually been turned off since February. I guess that tells you how often I watch DVDs ;)

It turns out that even while it’s turned off, it makes this sound. I have no clue why. All I know is that the only way to make it stop is to unplug it, which I discovered tonight. I looked around the room and saw that it was the only thing that hadn’t been turned off. And all of a sudden, I’m more relaxed. My fan is running, my Color Cube 50 is running, and my computer is running…and it’s still ten times more quiet in this room. I’m SO happy!!!!!! :) :) :) :)

If you ever have trouble getting to sleep, unplug your Playstation 2. It makes a world of difference.

Time to drift off to sleep :)