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“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…
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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…
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Dual monitor Flash player fullscreen hack
Wow, actually I thought I couldn’t top my five-noun post title “Live Ajax PHP regex tester, but now it happened. Looks a bit weird indeed. But let’s get on topic: If you have two monitors connected to your PC, you will probably have a movie run on one of them sometimes while keeping on working…
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Mini flashmob in Burscheid
My sister and I were pretty excited when on 9th May at about 3:20 pm, we walked up to the “Plus” store in Burscheid to wait for our comrades in the mission “Teethbrushing”. While she was still pretentiously hoping for 20 to 30 participants, I had already braced myself for meager five people. Thus I wasn’t disappointed when…
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Anti-aliasing in Firefox
Attention! This post is rather old. If you’re looking for information on the current Firefox 4 font smoothing problem, you should rather look here: Font smoothing in Firefox 4. Since version 7, I believe, the Internet Explorer has had this great font anti-aliasing feature. That is the fonts simply look prettier, smoother and less pixely there. I’ve…
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Peaceful Reflections
That is the title of the third picture I painted under the guidance of Bob Ross. Sadly, I used the wrong type of red, so the coloring has become a little kitschy. The sky hasn’t turned out so well either, because it rather looks like a thick rainbow instead of a dawn or dusk sky.…