Krehbiel Tech

By the way I'd like to apologize to anyone who has viewed my site recently with Internet Explorer 7.  Sometimes it rendered very badly, randomly writing text all over the place, shifting boxes around and generally looking ugly (see below).  It had something to do with an overflow:hidden CSS attribute in the rounded boxes, which apparently is not well liked by Internet Explorer.  I had to implement one of those "conditional comment" hacks to use an alternate style sheet for Internet Explorer browsers.

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Parts for my new computer came in last Monday (the 8th). I had a micro ATX case sitting around from a year ago which I was going to put my motherboard in (because I wanted front USB connectors, which my current case doesn't have), but it turned out my current motherboard wouldn't fit. So to avoid wasting the case, I was finally forced to buy a new motherboard. :)

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I've started working on a more streamlined PHP blogging platform, which I'm creatively dubbing "uvBlog." You might be wondering why I don't just get one of the millions of free, open source blog platforms out there. It's mainly because I'm really, really picky, and frankly it's more fun and instructional to develop my own. Also I don't want to lose any of my content. If I were doing this for someone else, I would probably just grab an open source platform (Serendipity looks like a good place to start).

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I thought it would be good to sit down and evaluate where I am with uvBlog in comparison to my stated goals. Points in italics below were my original goals.

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You've probably noticed that I've given the web site yet another facelift today. My goal was to clean up the style sheet and get rid of a lot of tables. I'm still aiming for a "clean and simple" look -- the antithesis of what most modern web pages look like.

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