I just punched in www.verizon.com and found that I could not do a service check with my phone number, because their site is using the document.all property, which has been deprecated for quite some time in favor of the document.getElementById(’id’); property in JavaScript.

I’m quite surprised at this…I’m using a Mac with Firefox 2.0 and came across the problem.

The solution for me was check AT&T and Charter Cable for comparable services…perhaps they will get on board with the W3C sooner rather than later, and write unobtrusive javascript, instead of requiring it.

I recently installed Kubuntu 64-bit on my desktop, which went off without a hitch - about 20 minutes to install and I had a working dual boot system (the other OS being Windows XP 64-bit).

I have to say the windows install was more trouble than the Ubunut install, mainly in XP’s lack of a SATA driver.

I have come across one problem of which I have no solution - yet.

Flash 9 is not supporting the x64 architecture. After downloading the .tar.gz file for Flash 9, and following Adobe’s instructions on their Flash 9 download page, I got the following error:


$ ./flashplayer-installer

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.


This is a bummer for me, as one site I regularly use everyday requires Flash. I’m even more disappointed that a major web site does not realize the inaccessibility of using Flash.

Here are a few threads about Flash 9 and getting it to work on Linux + 64-bit (actually, that is a mis-statement), because it requires you convert your browser and kernel to 32-bit…now what’s the fun in that?

1. ubuntu
2. adobe blog

My advice? Don’t support these “flash-only” sites…find an alternative. Another work-around is to install Opera + ia32-libs ;)

I’ve been trying to figure out the logic of RGB hex codes, and this is starting to make more sense…

R G B
00 00 00

Only every 3rd pair is supported, like 003300, 006600, (shortened as #030 or #360 for css).

But what about letters? Same thing, but there is no equivalent of 0, so we do every third starting at “A”…so

00CC00 is browser safe, but not 00AA00 or 00BB00.

00FF00, or #0f0 in css short-hand.

Thanks to Dave Child over at ILoveJackDaniels for the image.