The Problem: I installed falbum, a plug-in for WordPress that displays photos from flickr within a WP blog. Installation was pretty smooth, although I had to edit the htaccess file by hand. Then I noticed that although the photos displayed very nicely on Safari, the pages looked complete crap in Firefox, Camino and IE.

It seemed obvious that the “bad” browsers were not loading falbum’s specific stylesheet. I later learned, on the TextDrive forum, that the calls to the CSS were receiving a 404 error, page not found, and barfing. For some reason, Safari did not barf, found the CSS and displayed perfectly.

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Rebecca sends me to What's special about this number, a total delight. And the first entry, under √-1,¹ reminds me that I meant to thank the BBC's In Our Time podcast on negative numbers, a few weeks back, for enlightening me about a road near where I live over in ScienceLand. Via. G. Cardano c...

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I just don't get it. This email arrives:

Hello,
Greetings from Craigant Store. I visited your website and i found out that you have nice products, so i decided to order from your store. I will like to make an enquires on some items in your store, and i will like to know the shipping cost ship v...

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Wow. That MacZot thing? They made it. I get a free copy of SubEthaEdit. Now if only I had someone to collaborate with ...

... I’d look forward to working together on documents using SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. I remember being somewhat impressed with it when it first came out, but as everyone I have to work with is a slave of the evil empire I have had no opportunity to put it through its paces. Of course, some o...

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