Stupidity is Infinite

I’ve just got myself a lovely new 22″ high resolution monitor. First thing I did was fire up my browser to see the difference between the super sleek piece of kit and my lolloping old non-widescreen dinosaur.

Then I decided – out of pure vanity – to see what my site would look like in this new hi-res glory and got a horrible shock: everything was out of alignment. The background image wasn’t in-line with the text, so it looked crap.

Which lead me onto the next thought, which made my heart sink…

For the last few months I’ve been using this website theme, people with screens not identical to mine would’ve been enduring this wafty layout. Oh the shame!

Now, although I build decent landing pages day-in, day-out for clients, I’m pretty lost when it comes to Wordpress (which is what my site is built with). But being desperate, I dived into the “styles.css” file on the server and started messing around. Luckily, I fixed the problem relatively easily – changing one value from “relative” to “absolute” and adding a margin. Phew!

It’s a relief to get that problem fixed, but painful to realise the idiocy I’m capable of and a timely reminder that stupidity is indeed infinite.

And if you’ve visited LaneConsultancy.com in the last few months, sorry if the site looked weird to you. It’s all fixed now.

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Banned Books Week and “most challenged titles” of 2008!

What I find interesting about this isn't the list itself…

What IS interesting are the things that scare American readers enough to move them to "challenge" these books. (Please don't think I'm having a pop at Americans, we're similar here the in UK – it's just the list is US specific).

These are:

1. Political viewpoint,
2. Religious viewpoint,
3. Violence,
4. Homosexuality,
5. Unsuited to age group.

Funny how differences in opinion on points 1 & 2 tend to create large amounts of number 3.

Anyway, these objections from the public are the "usual suspects" in art & literature – and frankly, if it didn't scare or offend some groups of people, we'd have a very dull culture indeed.

I am, however, pleasantly surprised to see an absence of science books here in the "challenge" list – which appears to me as a good thing. Either that, or no-one gives a shit. Let's hope not…

Banned Books Week and "most challenged titles" of 2008!

(from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz)

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