Mr Altruistic

Not much happenin lately peeps. This monitor has blown a pixel, My bass guitar needs new strings, The Hot Box is sitting in pieces on my floor coz no ca$h = no sexy new poota. Halo is getting a second workout courtesy of its Legendary mission impossible setting. The Canon is still on order, so there’ll be no new content b4 I jet-set outta this dumpster. Oh yeah I took this screenie of the site rendering in shitscape 4.7. Your probably wondering why I bothered to make this site compatible/viewable in that browser.

Reason: The company I last worked in, ACNielsen consisted of 600 employees on os/2 warp version 3 platform with Netscape 4.6 browser.

Bottom line. People still use Shitscape 4.x browser.

First off, I believe I’ve found the main source of the stylesheet problem. After I ran it through the w3c analyzer It would appear that the // style of comments aren’t accepted in style sheets. After I removed them, the major incompatibilities were solved.

The moral?

Use /* or HTML style of comments instead. I have no idea if the fonts are rendering correctly now in mac browsers, so any feedback would be appreciated.

I’ve added the customary “revolver image + copyright” to the site. I chose Dirty Harry’s hand-cannon. Though I’m not sure if its the:
- .44 Magnum – The most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off; or the
- .44 Magnum AutoMag – holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used can remove the fingerprints.

Still haven’t got the camera for the trip, decided upon the Canon IXUS 400 over the Nikon 4500 because it costs less, is sturdier, and is compact enough to put in your pocket (prime consideration for us amateur snappers). It seems that many people agree because it’s OUT OF STOCK everywhere I’ve been.

Banks

Question: How is it that your credit card can be charged with over twice its limit by anyone else except yourself?

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully all week to work out how this is possible, after the airline did a double-charge of the same amount on my airfare. My bank says that its the “Merchants bank” that has approved the transaction, not them. How is it then that if I attempt to charge $20 over on my credit card i get the embarrassing “Disapproved” at the shop im purchasing in. Give someone else your number though and it seems that your limit is irrelevant, they can charge whatever they want. Now the bank is sending me mail saying I can dispute this, IF I sign the multitude of forms they have sent me. Fuck that! it’s their error not mine. If they approve a transaction that goes over my limit then they can pay for it. I won’t be. The operator on the other end of the phone had to “intentionally terminate” the call after I had said my peace.

Browsers

I’m still playing with the stylesheet for vilesilencer as it’s not rendering correctly in IE, Camino or Safari Mac Browsers. Admittedly I’ve been lazy with the stylesheets compatibility. Websites are moving away from defining font classes in the HTML coding and moreso they rely on the CSS. I will update the stylesheet to a compatible standard with version 1.2 of the argent site.