Category: Robert’s Blog

I have been having problems uploading to AT&T lately. Even this little blurb was a pain to get online. Hopefully this can be resolved soon so that I can begin posting larger additions soon.

See a preview of Lair of the Manbeast in the Fun Stuff section.

Insightful political commentary added to the Fun Stuff section.

Rocktober is finally here! I’m really excited about Lair of the ManBeast’s new look. Unfortunately it will not work in Netscape 4. Oh well, it probably won’t be finished until Netscape 6 is out anyways.

What’s Hot :: The Challengers – K-39 • Diablo 1

What Blows :: Shogo: Mobile Armor Division • National Public Radio • Retardeds who can’t follow a simple ballot – What about the people who wanted to vote for John Haglean and ended up voting for Harry Browne!

What I’m Reading :: I’m still reading Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers • I’m also reading Jakob Neilson’s Designing Web Usability

I have begun work on Lair of the ManBeast again. I will be totally updating the engine and the look and feel. LOTMB is a role-playing game that I am developing entirely in JavaScript. The new version will incorporate a lot of what I have learned about layers and DHTML during the past year. Hopefully I will finish it this time.

As is usually the case with the WWW, I’ve discovered my amazing pop-up window tool tips don’t work consistently across platforms. On a Macintosh (any browser) the pop-up appears just fine, but when you move the mouse off of the link, the window stays there. It will only disappear if you bring focus back to the main window, mouse back over the link, then mouse out. Rather than attempt to fix this, I will let Mac users get an extra puck-mouse workout as they click from window to window. In the meantime, they can take solace in the fact that at least their computer in the midst of one of its hourly system crashes.

Today I added support for JavaScript tool tips. Go ahead and put your mouse pointer over the words “Tool Tips” in the previous sentence to see them in action! From now on, if you see bolded, dark-red text like this, point at it, without clicking, for the tip (you will need to have a JavaScript enabled browser).

Big news today. My sister Mila and her longtime boyfriend Ed have finally gotten engaged! Congratulations! Check out Ed’s company, Supersphere.

Today I checked the site on my Mac at work and it looks just as good as it does on my PC. I also tested it on some dinosaur browsers and, although the colors and typefaces were wrong, the content still was readable and logical. The only complaint I have gotten thus far has been from John Burgess, who says my pages take too long to load. I suspect his connection was messed up. Oh well.