Also, also...

...why is it that people absolutely insist on shortening your name when you are CAREFULLY signing your emails back to them with your full name? I finally just added a parenthetical (I go by Stephanie, not Steph, thanks) after my signature today, after firmly tamping down the impulse to just shorten my correspondent's name, which I decided was probably going to be more obnoxious than a note like that.

There are only a few people I don't mind shortening my name, my mother and grandparents included,* and my coworkers are none of them.





* Mostly because I fought a losing war over that for twenty years.

aaaargh i hate you IE

WOrking away on coding a working mockup of the new library home page, and spend a good long amount of time getting the CSS dropdown menu to work, and it works quite nicely.

Then I happen to notice that it doesn't work in IE 8. 7, yes. Google Chrome, yes. Firefox 3.5.2 and 3.0.5, yes. IE 8, no.*

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH







* The menu drops down nicely, but the highlighting as your mouse moves over the subsequent links doesn't follow - it stays at the first link. I now have to go put different fake links into each of them so I can see if the actual links work OK and it's just the highlighting, or if that's also part of the problem. ARGH

Solution to the IE problem...

...in my previous post: the discovery that there is an actual META tag I can put in the header to force IE8 to render pages as if it is IE7. It is clumsy and I don't like it, but dammit, I'll do it and worry about fixing it properly later.