Life According to Duck

This isn't a rant about shoddy retail practices or the price of gas - I've actually been robbed.

As Trish and I got into my car this morning to leave for work, I noticed a few odd things. First, the Storage Compartment in the Center Console, as well as the Glove Box, were wide open. Checking both, nothing was missing. A few coupons for Wendy's that were in the cubby hole in the dash, were instead sitting on the passenger seat.

Most notably though, two things were missing: A pair of sunglasses that were in the same cubby as the Wendy's coupons, and the Spare Change dish in the center console (more accurately it's an ashtray, but I don't use it for that).

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I don't make a habit of ranting about people who work in Retail. I did it myself for over 3 years, and I know how thankless and unrewarding it can be. Still, this just put me over the top...

Trish and I were out running errands tonight, which happened to bring us near a Canadian Tire store. Given that I need to get new tires for my car soon, I decided to check on pricing. I need 205/50R16s, which aren't incredibly common.

I headed to the Automotive Department, where a single employee was standing behind the Customer Service counter. The conversation that followed, though brief, pretty much floored me.

"I'd like to get a price on some tires." I asked.

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My second article is up at MiniWarGaming.com - this time about Paint Removal. I had intended to do an article about Destroyer Assembly or the basic Necron Paint Job, but I kind of got ahead of myself. The Destroyer photos were fairly blurry and wouldn't make for a good article, and I just kind of got into a flow while painting my troops, and forgot to take pictures

Don't worry, there will be plenty more to paint coming up. Until then, have a look at Unpainting Miniatures.

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Tags: miniwargaming, Warhammer 40K
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I don't typically post from work, but this is really baffling and I just had to comment on it.

My office is about a block from Welland's main fire station. My office also gets incredibly stuffy, so on a typical day I have at least a few windows open. As a result, I hear just about every time a Fire Truck leaves the station (assuming they have their sirens on).

On a normal day, this seems to happen somewhere in range of zero to one times. Twice comes across as a busy day, at least to myself, a casual observer in this case.

Today is not a normal day.

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I came across this bug while working on the layout for Life According To Duck, and thought I would share the solution.

When viewing the page in Internet Explorer 6, my main post <div> was appearing about 4 pixels too wide whenever italic text flowed from one line to the next. The offending text was in a child element, a <p> tag. Briefly stated, IE6 (and I assume IE5) seems to consider the width of the slanted text when computing the box dimension, which of course adds a few pixels to the right side. As a result, the background of the element was appearing wider than the graphical caps above and below it. Sure, it's only 4 pixels, but that's 4 too many by my standards.

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Tags: bug, CSS, ie6, solution
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