Probably anyone coming to my site lately has noticed since I upgraded to the MovableType system that there are some text rendering problems associated with vertical scrolling. In short, if you scroll up and down, text lines will disappear or run into others. It's basically the fault of Internet Explorer, so this may be incentive (doubtful though) for you to check out Mozilla Firefox. Basically, Internet Explorer is a shitty web-browser that may be fast but doesn't comply to international web standards. I refuse to put into my code hacks that look something like this:
width: 760px;
\width: 780px;
w\idth: 760px;
All I should have to put in my CSS is width: 760px; but Internet Explorer requires the other two lines to display correctly.
The good news is that all you have to do to see the text correctly (should you refuse to download and use a vastly superior browser) is drag-select the text (as if you were going to copy/cut), and voila, the text will display properly. I'm sorry it behaves this way, and if I can figure out a way to make IE behave without adding ridiculous code like what you see above, then I'll do it. Who knows, maybe Microsoft will get their ass in gear and make a standards-compliant browser, but for some reason I doubt that. After all, why comply when you own 90% of the market anyway?
I find it mildly amusing that anyone with some sort of celebrity these days can claim to have talent beyond what they are famous for. Witness J.Lo's failing clothing line. Newsflash to Jennifer! No one likes your trampy getup! And another flash, no one really likes you! I remember when I was sixteen years old, I wrote my first novel. Admittedly it wasn't the greatest, but it had some originality and was on par with enough of the crap that gets published out there. Meanwhile, Rebecca Lobo, some hotshot UMASS basketball player, gets some publishing deal simply because she has gone to the WNBA (another failed commercial venture, I might add). I doubt she has much literary talent. Indeed, she and Dennis Rodman both got ghost writers. Boy was I bitter.
But this new line of cosmetics really takes the cake. Britney Spears Cosmetics? PUHLEEZE. Just because the girl can wave her ass around and make sexual grunting noises (passing that off as signing) doesn't make her qualified to design fragrances and cosmetics. I mean look at her, she looks like a whore! What's the fragrance going to be, "Eau De Tramp?" Sheeit.
