2. January, 2004 - working out the bugs

So it seems I’ve been running into IE6 strict mode box model bugs that have been making this site hard to read for Windows users. Sorry about that, but not using Windows much myself (and this not being a commercial site), I usually don’t test against the bugs in that browser before changing things.
This turned otu to be a particularly nasty one to work around without changing everything about my layout, since IE6Win does bad things with absolutely positioned things on the right (like I have) when the elements to their left don’t have a width (found a hint about this at the Absolutely Buggy II page in the Fixes section).
So my solution is that the #main div on my page now has a width set to 65%. This works out to give more or less the same look I always had, but it should also make things work on Win IE6, as long as your browser window is at least about 600 pixels wide. Please let me know if there are other problems.
LRT safety plan has sting to it and if you jaywalk across the LRT tracks, you’ll get a $100 fine. [strib]
Judge Dismisses AOL Spam Lawsuit, saying that AOL hadn’t proved that Virginia had jurisdiction over the spammers who were in Florida, even though the spam passed through AOL’s servers in VA. [fark!]
Lake Superior State’s Banished Words List for 2004 is up. Hopefully we can drop some of those words. [colby cosh]