I just did some CSS changes to fix some page displays in Internet Explorer. I haven’t really been testing much in IE, because I rarely use it. In fact, I’ve done more testing in Konquerer than IE. Since both Konquerer and Firefox displayed the same I thought I had things right. Well, that was wrong and I had some weird shifting and column wrapping crop up on me in some odd places. After much playing around I think I’ve squashed those bugs. I’ve only tested IE version 6, so I have no idea if it’s broken in other IE versions as of yet. Konquerer and Firefox both seem fine still. I’m starting to dislike CSS, but maybe I should just be complaining about Microsoft’s support for it. If they would just fix their JPEG renderer so my gradients would appear smoother in IE too.

I had my suspicions pretty well confirmed when I left for my last exam today. My bicycle seat has been pretty well trashed this semester. It’s been quite mysterious, but I suspected it was this bird I’d seen hanging around the bike rack. Turns out this bird nests in the bushes there and spends it’s time picking on the bike. It took a liking to mine. Today I saw it happily perched on it’s handle bars half asleep. It only flew off as I got close and made some noise. Arrrg! At least it has lasted this long.

It seems we have gotten to that point in the semester where attendance drops off. Some of my classes have gotten frightfully small. In fact, one of my classes has less than 20% regular attendance. I really like it that way. Basically, the people that are left are the ones that care, and most of the idiots are passed out somewhere from partying.

Despite this natural drop-off in student levels, parking is still a mess. This is telling about how badly OSU plans things. Parking has always been abysmal at best, but residential life parking has only gone from bad to worse. I want to know who the genious is that decided building new housing on top of existing parking is a good idea. Sure, they did try to allieviate things by building a few makeshift parking areas and further shuffling of commuter parking, but it is haphazard at best. It’s far from enough. One thing the “powers that be” have pointed out to excuse their mess is the increasing enrollment rate. Well, that’s not happening anymore. Now they don’t make excuses, they just don’t say anything at all. I’m sure this sort of thing isn’t exclusive to OSU, but it’s just another sign to me that this place is rotting from the head on down.

In two words — it sucks. I can’t believe they spent 7 months and came up with that. Take a look:

To save some bandwidth, I’m only hosting a minimal banner, but a more complete image is viewable at the FreeBSD Logo Contest site. I dunno, maybe I shouldn’t complain simply because I didn’t send in an entry. I’m not a graphic designer, though. I can’t do the quality of work I would expect. If they really wanted to quit using a version of beastie for corporate acceptance reasons, they should have dropped the devil implications all together, not come up with an Aqua-meets-Pokeymon-meets-Beastie symbol. We’ll see how this plays out, but I don’t like it one bit. They should have taken a page from NetBSD and followed their lead.