Rob van Gerwen's weblogRob van Gerwen's blosxom blogRichtlijnen Jaarboek Esthetica online- (Found July 8, 2008 ) De nieuwe richtlijnen voor het indienen van bijdragen voor het Jaarboek voor Esthetica zijn online: http:www.nge.nljaarboek.html. Stuurt u uw bijdragen bij voorkeur via e-mail aan <jaarboek nge.nl>.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#richtlijnen Blog-logic reclaimed- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Due to a change in server technology, my weblog has been disturbed profoundly. Quite a few entries placed a long time ago have been redated to december 20, 2007, and were placed up in the blog hierarchy. I am sorry about this disturbance of blog-logic. I sincerely hope my present tactics of uploading entries restores that logic. As of a couple of days ago, everything should be in order again. (This is just for those who are worried about finding old entries presented as new.) In fact,...http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#blog-logic drop-down menus restored- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Little did I know that MS Internet Explorer® did not render the drop-down menus that I so meticulously deviced for my sites. One look at a Windows machine showed differently. So I had to set out to rework the CSS-code once more. Thank God, Suckerfish explains everything neatly. And now, my academic sites work fine all over again. Now, all I have to do is think through the other sites I maintain. At least I know my suffering is finite. Thanks guys (at Suckerfish, I mean)!http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#dropdownRestored Vital software. Recommendations from a Macintosh enthusiast- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I am not going to explain exactly why and how I use these applications, but ask you to take my word for their great strength. I have in almost all cases tried out many of the available alternatives, and picked the ones mentioned below for their ease of use, their power, and most importantly: for their doing their job as expected. iPod ripping: It took a while before I found out how to extract songs from my iPod. There are several small applications, often freeware, available on the internet,...http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#software2 Upgrading my iMac- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I have just upgraded a three year old Strawberry (Rev. A, 266Mhz) tray-loading iMac with more RAM (from 96 to 640Mb) and a larger HD (from 6 to 40Gb) using this excellent How to upgrade an iMac, from Macworld.Of course, after this hardware upgrade, I want to run OS X on this machine. Troubles, no. 1 This iMac isn&8217;t Airport-ready. Previously, I used the Proxim Skyline 747 USB Adapter to connect an antenna through the USB port, which connected wirelessly to my Airport base station....http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#upgrading No update envisaged- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Nothing new for the moment, but do keep checking. There will be an English translation of our site, within a few months. A review of our last symposium. And the next (Dutch) newsletter, as well as the (mostly Dutch) Yearbook for 2003. Coming up. Coming up. But not quite yet.Finally, some time next winter the site will be revamped for purpose of easier maintenance. Visitors won&8217;t notice the difference until after the work is done.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#updatenot Revamped- (Found July 8, 2008 ) As you may have noticed, I have restyled the NGE-website. The lay-out is fluid, now. I.e., if you resize the window or the font-size you won&8217;t seriously disturb the way it all looks. If you are interested in how I did it, and what issues I troubled myself with, you might want to take a look in my blog on technical issues.As alway, something is rendered wrongly in Internet Explorer (for Mac): this time, it is the menus on top of the page. They don&8217;t act like I designed them to. Even..http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#blogRevamp NGE: oproep voor bijdragen online- (Found July 8, 2008 ) De oproep voor bijdragen voor het aankomende symposium in Zwolle is online.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#ovbOnline NGE: laatst- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Laatste wijziging is het plaatsen van een verslag van ons laatste symposium, het programma daarvan alsook de abstracts en personalia van degenen die eraan bijdroegen.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#sympverslag Menus- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Thanks to &8220;Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style&8221; by Nick Rigby, I finally succeeded in making the better navigation available to Internet Explorer users. As far as I can check this, it all seems to work.The changes are almost completely in CSS, but I used a Java script to let IE work with the hover styles I needed to make the dropdown menus work on all browsers. Unfortunately it took me much time to realize this and I had to take my sites off for almost a day (yesterday). I sincerely...http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#menus |