This is an odd bug, but if you try to specify a background for a link on hover (a:hover), the background may not take effect in Internet Explorer 8.  Fortunately it is an easy fix but not very obvious.

Basically make sure to specify the background in the non-hover state; if there is none, then set it to transparent.  Your CSS would then look like this:

a {
background-color:transparent;
}
a:hover {
background-color:#CCC; /* or whatever color you want */
}

Hopefully this saves some time for someone out there.  It took a while of playing around to finally get it working but ah well.

I once walked into a tree... and LIVED.

There are always two sides to an issue, only if you have no idea what the issue is about.

Vitality becomes youth.
Weariness becomes age.
Sleep becomes death.

     Been doing a lot of work with pocket projectors lately.  One problem I've run into with them is the throw length.  It's no fun having something portable if you still need a lot of space to do any projecting.  So I did some experimenting with mirrors to see if I can "simulate" the extra distance for the projector without actually using much space.


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Thinking you subconsciously act against your will is just a conscious act of denial.

Aurora Theory by Blackhole12

Crystalline Landscape by Blackhole12

As children, we pondered the meaning of words, but as adults, we can only think in terms of them.

Never become a shadow of your former self.

Nothing, nothing... just letting some ideas rot in the back of my mind.

The more you control, the more you become, but the less you are.

Just when you think you've reached your goal, you move right pass it and realize there was never an end in the first place.

Downloading emails from the Yahoo Mail...

     I just spent the last 2 hours looking for how to download emails off of Yahoo.  It is normally under Mail Options, but after they "upgraded" the interface, a lot of features went missing.
     To archive your messages, you basically have to find your way back to the old Yahoo Mail Options page.  Yahoo's Help site would tell you the feature no longer exists but it's still there, just buried.
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As kids in school, we spend our days in the winter cold,
but as summer approaches, we just feel old.

You will always be busy, but you choose what you will be busy with.

The greatest language is intuition.
The greatest barrier is language.

Since when was being busy an excuse to be unreliable?

We die when our cells stop believing we exist.

You say you want to make a change in the world.  What will you do once you attain it? What's preventing you from doing that already?