Month: July 2009

  • Extremely choppy playback in Flash player

    It is truly amazing how a computer can still surprize you and make you shake your head in wonderment, even after twenty years of computer experience. Since weeks I’ve had the problem that Flash movies were stuttering on my computer so much that I couldn’t even watch ordinary YouTube videos anymore. And I don’t mean…

  • Strange error message in Poedit

    I’m currently working on a PHP project that needs to offer possibilities of internationalization, i.e. the application should be translatable into any language with minimal effort. Since I had already come to know the mechanics of gettext from WordPress and was highly enthralled by its simpleness and effectivity, I decided to use this system for…

  • “position: fixed;” flickering when scrolling in Firefox 3.5

    Some Windows users may already have noticed it on certain websites: Since the update to the current Firefox version 3.5, fixed images (or fixed containers with background images) start flickering terribly when scrolling, so much that it almost hurts your eyes. So it was here on my site with the photos on the left and the…

  • One small step for literature – one giant step for the ego!

    Tonight I attended the prize giving ceremony of the seventh Cologne short story competition that is annually hosted by the German department of the Cologne University and that I had participated in just for fun. After reflecting for weeks over what my story should be roughly about, I typed it down in two days at…