In addition to changes made a few days ago, I’ve updated my style sheets again. This time I’ve removed elements common to both style sheets and all of my other style sheets. Basically, this amounts to all the CSS for the buttons I use, my margin-collapsing rules and other common elements being thrown together in one place to be used ad infinitum. Hooray for re-use!

Separately, I’ve made the margins for lists smaller, the text for them bigger and their headings (dt in definition lists) bigger. There are a few more little changes that won’t be noticed at all. This post is really just so I remember when I did what; feel free to ignore.

A man arrested for insider dealing has claimed he is a time traveller. In trying to explain how he went from $800 dollars to a portfolio worth $350m he claimed he was from 200 years in the future.

The full article adds some odd details but I, like others suspect this is an early April Fool’s Joke.

I’ve made some very minor changes to both of the CSS files this site currently uses.

All paragraphs have a larger leading space, a greater line height and slightly larger font. Combined, these changes make things a bit easier to read (hopefully). It’s still in need of some tweaking but that can wait until some other day.

If you can’t see a difference, press CTRL + F5 together to reload the stylesheet.

I have no idea what practical use I could have for this, but Kevin from Centricle has added a favelet that works as a ruler.

This is quite cool in that it shows how far favlets can be pushed. Worth messing around with for a while, at least.

I found a link to nntprss the other day and have to say how great an idea it is. It allows you to read RSS feeds in any newsgroup reading software that you might have.

Now, not a lot of people use newsgroups anymore (compared to when it was the killer app of the net), but I do. So being able to read news from all the sites I visit in a simple straight-forward manner in a familiar interface (in my case, Outlook express) is very useful. I recommend this to anyone who uses newsgroups and reads any site with an RSS feed.

I just need to set it up as a windows service, rather than having to use the command prompt everytime I start-up, and it’ll be perfect.

Update: I’ve created a very fast and nasty way or working around the problem of executing nntprss at start-up. Just use the following code as a batch file:batch-file code.

UPDATE: The word “start” has been added to the code to make the command prompt created by the batch file disappear on completion. Thanks to WildShaft!