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Entries from February 2005

On The Road Again

February 27th, 2005 · Comments Off

IttyBittyCity has reached a MAJOR milestone. First it drew the car (that took work), then it drew the road (not so hard), then it made a nice path along the road (took lots of work and hard to debug). But now, the culmination of all that: the little car drives around! Check out IttyBittyCity’s page [...]

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Tags: Programming

Driving Me Crazy

February 25th, 2005 · Comments Off

After a bunch of work I got my IttyBittyCity program making paths for the car to follow (car doesn’t move yet). Shouldn’t be long now. Check the page for a screen shot!
Things are going well with my Mac. I found out (thanks to my brother) that fn-delete performs a delete anywhere (instead of shift-delete which [...]

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Tags: Mac

Busy Day

February 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off

Sorry I haven’t updated recently (for the 3 of you who are probably still reading these entries). I have three final exams today and that has kept me busy. But I’ve got a week and a half break to work on things. On to some updates.
The keyboard on my Mac still seems a little weird [...]

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Tags: Me · Programming · School

Little Things Drive You Nuts

February 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

Ever notice how it’s the little things that drive you nuts? While I love my new Mac, I’ve run into a few of those. First is the delete/backspace issue that I mentioned in Adventures In Mac Land. Not only is that annoying, it’s inconsistent. Some applications understand shift-delete as delete, while others just take it [...]

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Tags: Mac · Programming · Site

CSS Stinks

February 17th, 2005 · Comments Off

OK, I started (trying) to redesign my site in CSS. But I forgot one thing: CSS stinks. It is just so hard to understand and never seems to work like I think it should. I guess my site will stay ugly until I’m madder about it.
Not much else is going on. I’m still trying to [...]

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Tags: Programming · Site