Cool! Subversion has just hit alpha. Subversion is a designed and built from scratch replacement for / successor to CVS. It addresses all the short comings of CVS, and adds tons of cool new features. Check it. But don’t forget that alpha status.

Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United Kingdom, Stockport, Bredbury, Mike, Male, 36-40!

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Woo Hoo! I’ve fixed the Internet Explorer problem. I made the background-color of the header style transparent. At least you can see the little guy in IE now. IE still gets the positioning wrong though! 🙁

I’ve just installed BlogAmp which posts to my journal the last 10 songs I listened to in WinAmp. You can see the list in the right hand column.
I’ll see how it goes. I don’t normally use WinAmp for listening to CDs, instead I use Notify CD Player which displays the title of the current track in the title bar of the current window.

I gave up trying to sort out why IE is having problems with my little StorTrooper. I really should learn a lot more about CSS as well as the quirks of each of the browsers.
Maybe later.

I’ve had broadband trouble again today. It was fine last night. But this morning I couldn’t check my mail. It was the same with Pinga in the kitchen. But whenever Jan used the internet today she had no problem. I did reboot the firewall on the way out to work this morning. Maybe that fixed it. Although, looking at the logs on the firewall, it had trouble as it was booting. Maybe it got better later. The funny thing is that the cable modem box shows two steady green lights, which means everything is ok. Strange. I’m beginning to think it may be hardware problems on the firewall itself. Igloo is a very old machine. Or rather some very old bits from some very old machines. Apart from the internal network card which is brand new.

I’ve just discovered that Internet explorer is rendering my header, with my little StorTrooper underneath the header block. That’s underneath in the z-order!
All you can see are his little feet peeping out! 🙁 Of course, in Mozilla it’s fine.
My CSS is not that hot but I’ll have to look into it.

Update: Here’s the little fella for all you Internet Explorer viewers

I’ve just had to fix the convert_smilies function in b2functions.php in order to maintain XHTML compliance.
Diffs are:

diff -r1.2 -r1.3
205c205
< $content = str_replace($smiley, "<img src='$smilies_directory/$img' />", $content);
---
> $content = str_replace($smiley, "<img src='$smilies_directory/$img' alt='' />", $content);

I’ve added an empty ALT attribute to the IMG tag.