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Print Story Doing the CSS/HTML impossible: clickable BKG IMG
It's impossible to make a background image in CSS clickable. There are work-arounds which don't work, tricks that don't truck, and solutions that the authors vote up with their sock puppets.

Necessity of invention is a mother. (endnote: had to set to text-only; any tags b0rked everything into unreadableness).


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Print Story A Day in the Life -- You CAN be too careful
Working life
By ReallyEvilCanine (Tue Dec 21, 2010 at 09:09:09 AM EST) (all tags)
Sanjay wants to perform a simple operation: changing the department identity code on the database. It took him two full, single-spaced pages to ask whether it can be done. I needed 47 words to confirm this and accurately explain how to do it, including a warning.

But I'm getting ahead of myself...
x-posted from da brog


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Print Story A Day in the Life -- Telephone
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 12:16:44 PM EST) A Day in the Life, cunts, meetings, fuckwits, pie (all tags)
"REC where are you?"
"Still working from home," I tell Meathead over the din of the teething puppy.

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Print Story A Day in the Life -- Fur stayed
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Wed Dec 08, 2010 at 07:37:36 AM EST) A Day in the Life, first aid, meetings, fuckwits, pie (all tags)
Apparently, here in Krautreich after only two years I must have forgotten everything I learned in the day-long first aid class I took five? six? years ago. Because then I'd forgotten everything I'd learned during my brief stint becoming an EMT with eyes toward doctorhood, a career path I dropped because I really don't like most people and I can't think of a quicker way of finding this out than working in emergency services.

It's also a tough job to do from home.

Poll: floppies
x-posted to da brog.


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Print Story A bucket of internets for me
Internet
By ReallyEvilCanine (Sun Oct 31, 2010 at 04:10:02 PM EST) (all tags)
Guess who nabbed the top spot -- el primo halloween-o -- over at Reddit for the Halloween costumed alien. Go on, guess.

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Print Story A Day in the Life -- I Do Want What I Have Not Got
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Mon Oct 11, 2010 at 09:45:16 AM EST) A Day in the Life, LOL What?, ice cream, pizza, logs, pie, WTF (all tags)
A couple of years ago I was visiting my brother and he seemed like a changed man. It wasn't just that he was over his latest divorce but rather, there was a genuine and deep change in him. I knew he'd been seeing a shrink since a rather spectacular (and very public) flame-out.

He's since stopped seeing the shrink. "One day he told me a story," Bro told me, "and it all just clicked. And I was fine."

A story?

Poll: nuts
x-posted to da brog.


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Print Story A Day in the Life -- There's a NetApp for that
Working life
By ReallyEvilCanine (Wed Oct 06, 2010 at 08:28:17 AM EST) A Day in the Life, WTF, fuckwits, root cause 17, file system, pie (all tags)
PRIO-1! PRIO-0! THE SKY IS FALLING! WE'RE DOOMED!! HAAAALLLP!!!

What a way to start the day. A quick look showed Srini works for $BigInterwebs who are still in development. You can't have a Prio-1 if you're in development, and if you want 'round the clock support, $MegaCorp makes you pay extra for it. So I don't feel too bad that it was almost lunch before I even see just the tip of this iceberg.

Reading through the problem, it was going to be after lunch before I answered it. The puppy needed feeds and it's marked Prio-3 (because that's what it is).

Oktoberfest Tourist Hell
x-posted to da brog.


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Print Story Oktoberfest
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Fri Sep 10, 2010 at 06:32:56 AM EST) beer, meet-up, germany (all tags)
Any of you fuckers planning on visiting this year?

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Print Story A Day in the Life -- Magnanimous
Working life
By ReallyEvilCanine (Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 10:07:21 AM EST) decades (all tags)
Meathead (my manager) came up to the Desk o' Hate high atop Munich on the first floor of the Greenhouse building, smiling like he'd actually gotten a raise and holding a folder in his hand. "Congratulations!" he said, handing it to me.

What could this be? A list of trainings I can finally have? A transfer to a less shittastical office? Permanent home office approval?

Poll: brewery by-products
x-posted to da brog.


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Print Story A Day in the Life -- Patchwork
Working life
By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu Jul 15, 2010 at 09:19:30 AM EST) fuckwits, Mic, Microsoft, patches (all tags)
What's the fucking point of a four-day weekend if every goddamned store is closed? Fucking Germans.

And in the Inbox is ticket x30109q00335 from "Karl".

We are exhausted with two things:
Really, Hoss? Me too. MegaCorp's way of doing business and the people it does business with. People like... you.

1)Microsoft incompatibilty
2)Functionalities being taken away.

Huh? There are Windows versions of the Gimp and Tux Racer.

Poll: browser games?
x-posted to da brog.


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