I had high hopes for at least the CSS3 Column styles being supported by the major and latest browsers. After an hour or two though, my hopes have shriveled to the don’t bother point.

These guys have fairly good support so I was off to a good start:

column-count: 2;
column-gap: 5px;
column-width: 50%;

The column-break-before: always sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Maybe I didn’t measure the secret sauce ingredients to properly bake the render.

And the one that can really help you “design” your page, Firefox gives up and completely ignores it: column-span: all. Internet Explorer 9 and below ignore the whole lot.

I’ll just ignore them, pretend like they don’t exist and revisit the styles and rules in a couple of years. In the meantime, I’ll happily carry on with float:left|right and width:49%.

PS— Gecko and Webkit need their vendor prefixes for most (and maybe all) rules to work. Love it.

#webdev #devhell

Tetris Created by Sergey Akinfiev

A fantastic photo montage by Russian artist and photographer Sergey Akinfiev. Be sure to check out the showcase section of his site for more cool stuff.

Alas, if only I had the free time of the teenage tcr! and the power of computing that lay before me tonight. I’d be like the two turtles taped together, unstoppable.

Akinfiev work is awesome. Check it out.

#gaming

Kraken Watch

The KudOktopus case is stainless steel, 42mm in diameter, and has sapphire crystal on the top and back. Its mechanical movement requires manual winding to keep its tempered blue Breguet steel hands moving smoothly. The strap and buckle are Louisiana alligator or calf leather and stainless steel.

Even better than the photo above is a video.

#fashion #tentacles

It's Friday morning and sky is blue!

#smellsperty

Star Wars glasses filled with sweet treats given to me on this Valentine’s Day. My beautiful wife knows me well. Licorice, chocolate covered cashews, macaroons, mini Snickers.. Oh my.

#photos #starwars #marriage

mysql - how to mysqldump remote db from local machine

-1, cause this is about answering questions and not linking to places where one needs to create an account, download something and eventually find an answer or NOT. – user667073 Jan 30 at 13:38

I <3 answers and answer replies like this.

#software #mysql

If you continue to harass the monkeys, they'll throw poop at you.

#justice

What To Do About The Rise Of The Robots? - Forbes

For decades, increased automation has led to greater productivity, displacing some classes of jobs, but creating whole new industries.

Innovations like robots in factories, ATM machines and self checkouts in stores have all met with some grumbling, but have also lowered prices while providing more convenience.

Generally,the chattering classes have taken it in stride. After all, when poorly educated workers’ jobs are being replaced, they can be trained to do higher level work. The attitude has basically been, “when computers can replace human thinking and intuition, then we’ll worry about it.”

It’s a little lengthy but non-geek friendly and a good overview of where we’re at and where we’re going.

#robots

Mac keeps auto-correcting “cronjobs” to “corncobs” — makes me think I should coin the word “cornjob”

#mustarddogs

This Week: Modern Love | WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein | CBC Radio

Is there such a thing as too much love? In this special Valentine’s Day episode, we bring you a story about a time when love was endless. Plus, a man spends over a decade of his life in love with a woman who doesn’t exist, kids share their relationship advice, and a woman recounts the worst first date of all time.

I listen to just about every episode via their podcasts and this one I particularly enjoed. Choice quotes below:

Because love, as you know, also means taking on another person’s pain.

You don’t really decide who you’re gonna love. It’s just your heart that says this person, I like this person. This person.

I think it’s like an existential loneliness. You can find people who you can connect with deeply who really make you feel happy and nurished. But I don’t think anybody can cure our existential loneliness.

Do u wanna see who I have on my iPod?

Oh.. And I made it easy for you to listen.

#podcasts