CSS Image Restrictions

Message to the Masses: Help, I'm looking for a cross browser css solution to limit image display sizes. Ex: A user uploads an un sized photo, the image is 2400px x 2400px. I want to make the maximum displayable size 500px wide. This first example works but, makes every image the same size: This bit works like I want but … Read more

Friday Funny

A Little late rolling this one out, but here is the Funny for this Friday. Enjoy.

The Idiot Test

Scoring guide:
20 Correct – Genius
17 Correct – Above Normal
15 Correct – Normal
8 Correct – Nincompoop
6 Correct – Moron
3 Correct – Idiot

Questions:
1.  Do they have a 4th of July in England?
2.  How many birthdays does the average man have?
3.  Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
4.  A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar’s sister, but
the beggar is not the woman’s brother.  How come?
5.  Why can’t a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
6.  How many outs are there in an inning?
7.  Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow’s sister?  Why?
8.  Two men play five games of checkers.  Each man wins the same number
of games.  There are no ties.  Explain this.
9.  Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10.  What is the answer?
10.  A man builds a house rectangular in shape.  All sides have southern
exposure.  A big bear walks by, what color is the bear?  Why?
11.  If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
12.  I have two US coins totaling 55 cents.  One is not a nickel.  What
are the coins?
13.  If you have only one match and you walked into a room where there was
an oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning stove, which one would you
light first?
14.  How far can a dog run into the woods?
15.  A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour.  How
long would the pills last?
16.  A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die.  How many are left?
17.  How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
18.  A clerk in the butcher shop is 5′ 10” tall.  What does he weigh?
19.  How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
20.  What was the President’s name in 1950?

Score yourself:

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Get an RSS Feed with ColdFusion

Ok, I’m probably last man to the party with this one but I thought I’d share. I can’t remember where I found this bit of code but, it is pretty darn handy! If you want to add your favorite RSS feed to your site and have it update dynamically, then this is for you.

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Coldfusion Countdown

Ok. Couldn’t end the week being totally worthless.. Here is a nice simple way to “Count-down” from now to a specific date using coldfusion. #DateDiff(“d”, Now(), CreateDate(2007,2,25))# days til my Birth day. The “d” means days, “Now()” means get the date right now. The “CreateDate” takes the information inside the “()” and makes it a date using the format year/month/day. … Read more

Friday Funny

Ok… No productive posts this week…. Still need the Friday Funny though!!

Here goes:

A three hour tour…

The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan's Island theory is quite simple. Each of the seven characters on the island represents each of the seven deadly sins. Now, this theory seems to fit upon initial inspection, there are technical difficulties when you get down to THE MAN himself, Gilligan.

Run with me on this one….

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Funny for Friday pt.2

Funny Part 2 – submitted by James:

Monastery Life

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

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