I was playing with styles in the K2 theme I am using. I came across blackboard which I think looks quite nice. Everything worked fine except the sidebar (to the right) that kept appearing at the bottom of the page (but still over to the right) below the last post. I was able to fix it by changing the blackboard css so that the margin property in the following
.secondary {
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.5em;
padding: 10px 0;
margin: 0 0 20px 71%;
width: 26%;
color: #666;
position: relative;
}
looked like this
margin: 0 0 20px 0%;
Now this is the first time that I have played with CSS so apart from the fact that this is changing the margin-left value I don’t really understand what I did.
Amazon have added static IP addresses to their EC2 system. I have been meaning to try EC2 out for a while. I might just do it now.
Display Link have released beta drivers that allow you to use up to 4 USB connected displays on your MacBook Pro.
I have never had much luck getting good wireless reception in my house. Until now I have used the wireless access point built in to my ADSL router. I have tried products from Vigor, Linksys and Dlink and reception has always been terrible unless you are working in the same room as the access point. Even in the lounge, one room away from the access point, through a thin partition wall (it used to be all one room) I could only get intermittent reception at best.
So today I gave in and got an Apple Airport Extreme. I should have known that Apple would make yet another great product. First impressions are that I now have a strong, reliable signal throughout the house and what is more it was a pleasure to configure. Compared to the web pages in the Linksys and Vigor products I have tried the Apples Airport Utility is really simple, well designed and as with all Apple stuff it “just works!”
I upgraded my ejabberd server to openfire today. It is really nice. ejabberd was very stable and worked extremely well but really lacked a management interface. Openfire has a fantastic interface that really makes it easy to configure. Even migrating my users across was painless.
Openfire have also announced a beta of their next release. It has an invisibility option. Once there is client support this should allow you to control who can see you presence. This is a feature that I and others have been waiting for.