Dirty Dog

Ran across a middle-earth name translator today and it says:

    Dear Jerry Halstead,
 
     If you were a Hobbit, your name would be Bugrin Rafter  
     and if you were a (male) Man, your name would be Taenyc  
     and if you were an Elf, your name would be Amon  
     and if you were a Dwarf, your name would be Magan  
     and if you were an Orc, your name would be Rugdish  
     Your nearest Tavern might be called The Dirty Dog  
     and your sword would be called Naraithas

I started off the day debugging a CSS problem between The How Zone and IE 5.5. Not having 5.5 and not really wanting to go through the pain of reverting a windows machine back in time I searched the net for another solution. I remembered reading this article late last year but couldn't remember where it was.

I found that Ryan, over at skyzyx.com, has been kind enough to provide downloadable standalone versions of IE 5.5, 5.01, 4.01, and 3.0.

The bug turned out to be IE's failure to properly handle (or ignore) print media css files. Grumble. Checking out Ryan's homepage led to the middle-earth translator. When it said my nearby tavern would be called The Dirty Dog, I just knew they were psychic!

Some other fun/interesting links:

Why Real PC isn't really real. (thanks Ted!)
Canon's Camera Museum
There's a Grub in my log...
Deep in the heart of OS X
LaCie's terabyte disk
In the market for a quality harp or supplies? The Harp Connection

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