Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Breakfast at home: organic oatmeal with fresh, sliced banana; california sage honey, soy milk. Rode my bike to work. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. Supp app project work in Drupal. Chatted with Michael and Eric about Drupal. Supp app project work in Drupal. Calendar management. Listserv management. QBC work in Drupal. Small web edit for Shirin: infoday. Late lunch from the cafeteria: large vegetable soup, medium dinner roll with butter, water. Supp app project work in Drupal. The fillpdf service was down today from about 12:00 noon Pacific to about 3:00 PM Pacific. I sent Kevin K a direct tweet saying I thought the service was down. Within perhaps 10 minutes it was back up. QBC work in Drupal. Small web edit for Cindy: HSPR requirements. Rode my bike home, stopping at Everybody Bikes to buy a new headlight: USL-5 Raider USB rechargeable. I had to buy a new headlight because the bracket for the Giant Numen HL2.0 I had before broke when my bike fell over accidentally when I was not riding it. The Numen light assembly still works—only the bracket is broken, and I don't think I'll be able to get a replacement for just the bracket, but maybe I'll try. Home. Installed the new headlight and did a repair. The repair was another light issue. My taillight had fallen off. A while back Everybody Bikes had installed this for me using an L bracket. It worked fine for many weeks. The only problem was that the metal was perhaps softer than it should have been and every now and then the light would sag so I would push it back up. A while passed and it would sag. I would push it up again. And so forth until one day it just broke off at the bend in the L. Fortunately it happened when I was not riding, so I still had the taillight. I fixed this problem by swapping the positions of my tail reflector and my taillight. Patrick and I ordered a veggie deluxe pizza delivery, had that with Layer Cake shiraz 2010. Worked on Tina's website on a staging server, building it to be responsive, Ethan-Marcotte-style. I love media queries! It's painstaking, probably underappreciated work, but it's nice having so much more control than in the past. A helpful web developer tip: when resizing my browser window small to simulate an iPhone screen size, the contents of the window would force a horizontal scrollbar to appear. I hid content with stylesheets, and I removed content from the page, but nothing I did could make the horizontal scrollbar disappear. Until I turned off all my toolbars in Firefox.