...I discovered that Firefox 1.5 RC2 has been released. Ha. That wasn't what fixed the background problem, but if I'd have waited it out maybe I wouldn't have had to change anything. Anyway, it's all fixed now so it doesn't matter.

So. I have lots of work to do for uni. 3 presentations, 1 essay and a project for which we have a tutorial on Tuesday. I haven't done much work during my week off, and it's back to class tomorrow. *Sigh* Not looking forward to it. This course is dull.

I downloaded Firefox 1.5 RC1 on Monday. They've been plugging it for a while on the Firefox download page, and while I did get one of the alpha versions a while back, I stayed with 1.0.x. Now that all my extensions and themes seemed to be compatible, I decided to switch.

Anyway. Since the switch, nothing's really changed... A few new features here and there, otherwise not to different from 1.0.x. But... There seems to be a margin bug in 1.5 that wasn't there before. Example: if you're using FF 1.5, see the bottom of this page (press End to go directly there). See how the background seems to jump slightly to the right? That doesn't happen in any other browser (except IE, but IE can be hacked). So... what to do? I changed the margins of the footer so that the background would match, but then it looks out of place on Opera and Firefox 1.0+. I did search around for some tips, but it seems no one else has picked up on this. *Sigh* I might have to wait for RC2 to come out for this to be fixed... I hope not, since I hate it when my site doesn't look right, but oh well.

Edit: Hmmm, I think I fixed it... I aligned the background all the way to the left instead of the middle, then used a wider left margin. I tested it in IE 6, FF 1.0.7, FF 1.5 and Opera 8.5. Let me know if it still looks wrong to you. :)

Well, after initially starting off rather badly, my birthday went quite well. I got a lovely new camera (Nikon Coolpix 5600) and a few other necessities for the new house/flat thing (I say that since we can't decide if it's a flat or a house - it's tiny small but has a first floor). Yay for us - we're moving in in two weeks! Eeeeep, I can't wait!

Speaking of our new place, does anyone know how to activate a phone line? We need internet in our place (need! NEED!!!!) and the landlord won't do it for us, which is fair enough, but I would have expected him to activate the phone line for us. We can put the net in afterwards (no dial-up for us - broadband it will be), but I really wish we didn't have to wait around for it once we're there. Ack, net withdrawl... *twitches*

A couple of other things I thought I'd mention (not interested? Too bad :P )... Firefox is really annoying me lately. It keeps encountering errors and "needs to close" so I lose all my session cookies and end up losing where I was on forums and such, as well as the 3842739583 tabs I have open. It's not my computer, I defragged it, got rid of spyware/adware/viruses but yet FF still finds cause for making stupid errors. Plus, my Gmail notifier add-on is stuck on 2 new messages, when I know there are no more. *Beats it*

Also: Katrina. You cannot read/see/hear about anything else right now. I have read and heard several opinions on the aftermath, but there is one thing that really angered me.
I was watching a news report on the situation in New Orleans and the (American) reporter ended with "But this isn't Iraq, Somalia or Ethiopia... this is home. It shouldn't be happening here."
Why did this anger me? Because he was implying that it's alright for people to live in those conditions in Iraq, Somalia and other such countries, which I think is totally unacceptable.

That's my opinion anyway.