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April 16, 2012

Third-Hand Smoke

http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/04/thirdhand-smoke.html This video is about the chemicals that stays on a room’s surfaces long after a smoker has finished a cigarette. (The woman in the red glasses in the video is my sister-in-law.) The chemical residue from smoking is just now being studied.

Personal/Uncategorized

June 20, 2011

Fixed Table Headers with wide non-breaking content

I just got a bug at work where someone in QA put “adsfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf” into content in a table. This is not “real” content, but it did break the layout. The problem is that it is non-breaking and won’t wrap, and tables can only be as thin as their thickest content in each column. If that had been “adfds adfad adfadsfasdf”...

Tech

May 14, 2011

Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca

A week ago we saw Ricardo Lemvo and his band Makina Loca at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in SF. I had a great time and danced for most of the concert! The whole thing was really together, the band was tight. They played mostly dance songs with a wide variety of rhythms. Ricardo Lemvo plays congolese rumba, son montuno, soukous,...

Arts

April 4, 2011

Don’t Mess With Tables – Pure CSS Fixed-Header Left-Aligned Tables

See the Demo Page for examples and view the source for markup and CSS. Update 9/3/13: I just added Zupa’s suggestion to the demo. I am working on a project with a requirement for fixed-headers tables (the headers don’t scroll but the body does) which expand to fit the width of the page. We were using a JavaScript plugin which...

Tech