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Boat The boat is running. We spent the entire afternoon yesterday cleaning inside and out. A test drive showed no serious leaks and the drive train runs smoothly. The engine stalled a few times before it was warmed up. Rolling Ball Sculpture I am still working now and…
Continue readingtr { overflow: hidden; } is bad. It turns out that this simple CSS option causes rows cells that span rows to overwrite or hide content in the cells that they span. Unfortunately, I can’t create a simple example. The page where I saw this uses an external…
Continue readingMy previous blog entry has a link to another site. It is not just a link but is actually a form that is submitted to the other site. This caused an interesting problem during implementation. These blog entries have HTML enabled so I can do some formatting and…
Continue readingI know of a site where I can get a chart that shows the temperature of Lake Tahoe taken from a few different research buoys in the lake. It’s a great resource but it’s a bit painful to use. I have created a form in this blog post…
Continue readingIn the process of copying content from www.rectorsquid.com, I decided to include a link to my kayaking trip map page. The image below is a snapshot of the page but is not up-to-date. Click on the image to go to the map page and see the most up-to-date…
Continue readingRolling Ball Sculpture I’ll need to post some photos soon. I’m working on a billiard ball rolling ball sculpture. It is about 4.5 feet tall and has a chain lift like a roller coaster. The cool feature of this sculpture is the authentic roller coaster look and feel….
Continue readingI finished my initial SSE2 project. It worked out well but I was hoping that it would work out better than just “well.” The algorithm I needed to speed up is called the Smith-Waterman algorithm. In reality, Smith and Waterman modified a type of algorithm called a dynamic…
Continue readingI don’t have time to do it now but I’m looking forward to writing up a description of the things I’m learning using the SSE2 instructions. One thing I see already is that making an 8 item pipeline and operating on 8 items in parallel only seems to…
Continue reading#define MYMAX( a, b, c ) ( c = ( a & ~( ( a – b ) >> 31 ) ) | ( b & ( ( a – b ) >> 31 ) ) ) An interesting thing that can be done is this: #define MYMAX(…
Continue readingI found a bug in IE 8 related to showing and hiding div elements. I have some simply JavaScript code that runs when a button the page it clicked. <input class=”optionsbutton” type=”button” name=”ButtonHide” value=”Show” OnClick=”showoptions( true )”/> The showoptions function is quite simple as are the functions it…
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