well i was applying the new theme last night and all went well as most of you probably can see (i like it a lot better it’s clean and simple still but with some more style), and i came across the bane in every web programmer’s side that is IE‘s non-compliance with the web standards, if you’re viewing this page with a mozilla-based browser or opera then you’re in good shape, if you’re using IE the sidebar may jump to the bottom of the page, i found out this is because IE doesn’t use the outline for CSS that the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) it instead uses how microsoft CSS should work, this is proving to be a real pain in the rear for me. So for now i’ll explain the problem and my current band aid for it, ok the problem is that the microsoft CSS implementation isn’t dynamicly resizing the images like it’s supposed to (like it does in firefox and opera), so for now i just have to link images or make sure to scale them small enough that it doesn’t impact it, so for now boycott IE, and download firefox or opera (i prefer firefox but opera is very nice as well)

Well development of the widget has come to a standstill until the new version comes out (0.9.8.0), andrew says that it’s about 60% done, so i’m expecting a new release sometime within the next couple of weeks, and then i can start working on my widget again, i have some new ideas for upcoming widgets that i’ll throw out an alpha build within the first month of the kapsules release.  I’ve got to say that MGS 3 is still very good and i’m moving along at a decent pace, i’ve also started watching desperate housewives and the new season of 24 (as i mentioned in my last entry), both are very good and additive (24 i started watching from the begining, and desperate housewives i’ve downloaded them all in high-def and i’m catching up at a good rate).

Well i’ve watched the first two hours of the fourth season of 24, honestly i feel it’s coming off with a week start, the first two seasons i’ve watched from the start (the third i got in on shorty after it started) and they first all told you the main threat in the first hour, and i believe this season they knew they had two days where they had two hours slots, and this caused them to place things slower than normal, but this is not necessarily true for the rest of the season, we’ll have to wait to see, the first season started off kind of slow and it was still very good.

i made a massive number of optimizations to my comic widget over the past week or so, it should be very noticably faster in resizing and intial load, there is a small amnout of additional memory overhead, but it is such an amount that i can’t notice it and i doubt you will, this is in junction with my previous statement of all updates only working on the new build versions of kapsules (0.9.7.1+), anyways here is a download link, enjoy and have fun, i’m not going to post a new screenshot because honestly nothing visually has changed so i don’t see the need, just check out the one in the gallery for the most recent version number or the one in the post below

here’s the link again in case you missed it above

The reason i haven’t been posting much is actually due to a few reasons, first my purchase of metal gear solid 3: snake eater, which is extremely good and extremely addictive, i highly recommend it to fans of the series and anybody how enjoys a good action adventure game, it’s easily the best game i’ve played in recent history, it is harder than the previous ones (which i like) and features alot of inovation (ie neat new ideas), like the new camo system, and the enemys are alot smart about spotting you, and you no longer have the little radar thing in corner (not invented yet, but they do give you a motion detector that actively drawing on your battery power and a sonar device that let’s you ping the area for close enemy’s (and animals), it will let enemy’s know you are there if you do it too close to them when you activate it, this is what i use almost always), there are just so much to this game that is done so well, i highly recommend it, enough of sounding like i’m plugging it, back to playing it.  The other reason i’ll probably be a little scant is that the guild wars beta weekend this weekend, and school starts next week, so things are going to get tight here for a while, so development of the widget unfortunately going to have to suffer.  Anyways play games and have fun, because that’s what i’m going to be doing.

here, is an updated version of my widget for the new API standards in kapsules versions 0.9.7.1 and later, i fixed a few bugs, and since this is the version of kapsules moving forward this is what i’ll be working on in the future, i decided not to increase the version number because frankly nothing substancial was updated, it was just fixes for the new version and what not

i setup a new gallery based off this server, access and uploading is free (til abused) it can be accessed from here, there’s a couple of things i put on there but nothing greatly interesting, i uploaded all the incremental images of the widget i’ve been working on, here’s the latest one

see it here

here’s the latest version of my of my webcomic widget, it’s been renamed so delete your previous version before installing, and please give me any feedback or requests, this version adds not alot in terms of function, it merely simplifies the existing setup, fixes some bugs, and i added a bunch of web comics, i’m planning to add more before i get to version 1.0