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I was reading about Mooncakes since its Mooncake festival, and I came across that some of the main ingredients were the Lotus Seed. During my searches, I found this website. very interesting, I now want to get some lotus seed and start growing some beautiful flowers. plus lotus roots are very awesome foods. hmm.

ok this post will get updates, I am now on the hunt for lotus seeds.

I just did a svn update on my blog, and the admin area changed. currently i am running the latest version of wordpress 2.7 hemorrhage what a name

here are a few screen of their new look, in case you don’t know how to svn update.

Alli can say man what a terrible ride. Not only am i not in the best shape of my life. i basically rode a mile and a half and i was completely winded. I think more is what i need. I need more and more riding. I was going to ride to work, but I think I will do that when I am more fit. Hopefully i will be able to ride to work and not be all winded, sweaty and full of B.O.

whilst I was working on doing web stuff for my company i came across a strange phenomenon doing cross browser stuff.

my task was to create curved corners on div boxes. First i thought man this is gonna be cake. since there is a handy dandy jQuery plugin i could use in doing so. you can see more of that here

the jquery plugin source is here

basically all you have to do is add the jQuery string argument at the end of your selector.

code:

$("#your_block_id").corner("the parameters");

the parameters are basically this

.corner(”effect corners width”);

so to get a regular rounded corner block you can do something like this. since round is the default. all you have to do is put the pixel sizes as the parameter.

code:

$("#your_block_id").corner("10px");

demo:

so that solved the problem withe corners, its lightweight, and under 8k compressed and packed.
very quick load time.

The other thing is regarding the strangeness of tranparent pngs for backgrounds, and you will need to see this in IE7 and firefox3 which is what i’m running at the moment. although any flavor of Firefox will suffice.

As I was using the curvy corners jQuery plugin to make all the corners curvy on the block items. i was asked to place borders around all the blocks. The jQuery corner plugin is great for non border objects, but a different approach was needed in order to get the bordered corners. this is one approach i usually take when i just don’t want to think and use a CSS approach. Plus i think its just fine for what i need. Although there is a Stu Nichols Approach for doing a complete CSS version. but to me is not all scalable for multiple objects. and i admit i’m just lazy.

I used a combination of css and images.

here is the css

.topbar {
    position:relative;
    border:1px solid #6a6a6a;
    background:transparent url(images/333back.png);
    width:201px;
    padding:15px;
    margin:10px auto 0 auto;
    text-align:center;
}
.topbar .header_lt {
    position:absolute;
    height:10px;
    width:10px;
    left:-1px;
    top:-1px;
    background:#000 url(images/lt_header.png) no-repeat scroll center top;
}
.topbar .header_lb {
    position:absolute;
    height:10px;
    width:10px;
    left:-1px;
    bottom:-1px;
    background:#000 url(images/lb_header.png) no-repeat scroll center top;
}
.topbar .header_rt {
    position:absolute;
    height:10px;
    width:10px;
    right:-1px;
    top:-1px;
    background:#000 url(images/rt_header.png) no-repeat scroll -2px 0;
}
.topbar .header_rb {
    position:absolute;
    height:10px;
    width:10px;
    right:-1px;
    bottom:-1px;
    background:#000 url(images/rb_header.png) no-repeat scroll -2px 0;
}

here is the code

<div class="topbar" style="font-size: 13pt;">
<div class="header_lt"></div>
<div class="header_lb"></div>
<div class="header_rt"></div>
<div class="header_rb"></div>
LOREM IPSUM DOLAR
</div>

so here are 2 blocks.
the first one uses the 1px background block.

this one uses the 100 x 100 px background block.

In Firefox they look identical, in IE7 you can see that one has a gradient. Bizarre eh? I though so.
so the fix is just making the background image a bit larger. that’s about it.

here are the images i used for this demonstration

Okay this from my iPhone and Im waiting for the other people in my group to show up. So there will be many mistakes in regards to punctuation. If it starts to sound like rambling it’s because I got lazy half way in looking for the period . Ok there it is.

This week in my life I decided to draw more. I will have some of the things I drew up soon. But it’s mostly doodles an strange looking sketches of people. I do enjoy drawing faces and the human body. As it can be as complex as any landscape or scene. So far I have a bunch of faces with no eyes but dark circles in place if eyes. I’m thinking ofbgettong sculptures but the idea of clay and making a mess deters me from doing so. I’ll stick to conte crayon and paper for now.

My sleep schedule is way tucked up these days. I go home have a nice and wonderful meal prepared by my dear Y. And low and behold I pass out sleep for a good few hours and I wake up not being able to sleep again till re we hours of the morning. I feel like Tyler durden from fight club except I don’t do odd jobs in the middle of the night. I sued the Internet and watch bad reruns of movies on the various on deman hammels and premium channels on cable. So far I saw lucky number slevin for the 3rd time. Good movie nice little revenge movie. For instance I finihed wathing swing girls, a japanese movie. I have to say it’s pretty goodainxe I d enjoy big band misic and the whole swing jazz movment. It’s all about the struggle. In the end I went to sleep at 6:00 and awoke to to I work around 8:30. Ge’ez.

Besides the lack of sleep what I thought at work would pick up, basically became a let down, I kinda do miss the late night crazy days before the launch at least during those times we all stayed late I get things done and thwlerw was a lot of comradery the focus was towards a common goal.

It kind of sucks to wait these days for things. It seeks people are way to cautious, and it seems like no one is taking the daring side much.

Other than that, hearing from some the vets, that yes we are clicky, so what, This is what we are. Don’t sweat the small stuff. I can at least feel confident that the feeling is mutual in this effect.

In other news, I need to start riding my bike more. If I want to do the Acura bike race in march u should be more prepared. Marwan said he would join me, and so I’d Paul. So far 2 suckers, j/k. I look foward to doing this.

Oh I also deleted all the cheesy jokes off this blog. Better me more focussed in the technical aspect. So coming soon more jquery tutorials and javascript tricks, cause that makes me happy.