From The Biggest Thing in Physics:
“The “large” in Large Hadron Collider is something of an understatement. “Enormous” is closer: The collider’s underground tunnel carves a circle 17 miles in circumference, traversing the border between Switzerland and France.”
See also Time Machine: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, The God Particle, CERN’s Public Website.
When you’re designing a web site, you want it to be the best right? I mean … not just average looking but something you will be proud to put against those featured on showcased sites right?
You’ll often find me posting and answering questions in forums when my mind needs to be somewhere else for a few minutes. Sometimes I find myself reviewing sites. When reviewing someone’s site, I often point them to CSS Showcase sites (notably CSSMania because of it’s topics) just to give them a view on their competition. I think it’s very important to see what your competition has for a site and making sure you’re up to par with them esthetically. I mean, you’re product might be better than Company B but if your site looks like it was done when Netscape 3 was out … most people won’t look past the first impressions.</p>
Yes … it’s true unfortunately. The classic line of “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” doesn’t work in the Web Design industry. If your site looks great and it’s trendy, clients will come.
So … when you’re designing a site, don’t settle for less! Go look at what the others are doing and aim higher.
Many jeepers are looking for ways to mount their hi-lift jack on their Jeep. I decided that I wanted to keep mine as far away from Mother Nature as possible, especially with all the salt that goes on our streets in the winter time.
So with that in mind, I found out that many were mounting it behind the backseat on the rollcage. Found a few write-ups and went on from there. Notably one found on JonFund.com with a few modifications since I didn’t have a welder.
Here’s what it looks like:
Check the base of your jack. You’ll see that there are 3 holes in it in a form of a triangle. I used the 2 bottom ones to fix it to the clamp.
We drilled 2 holes in the railing so that we could fix it to the clamps. When it was installed and tightened, we used a grinder to make the U-bolt flush with the nuts. A hacksaw will do the same. Drilled another hole at the bottom of the railing, rested the jack on it and attached the lock… and voilà !
The SAAQ clearly states in their special documents for modified vehicles that:
“La partie supérieure de chaque roue doit être recouverte d’une aile sur toute la largeur de la bande de roulement.”
In english that would translate to
“The higher part of each wheel must be covered with a wing over all the bandwidth of bearing.”
(If that made sense, thank the AltaVista’s Babelfish translating system. If not, thank the AltaVista’s Babelfish translating system hehe)
As you can see from this picture, my tires stick out at about 1″ to 1 1/2″
Last year I got pulled over because of this and I basically just thought it was some kid cop that had a really boring afternoon and needed to fill is ticket pot or something but then last Sunday, I got pulled over again *sigh* for the same reasons so … I need to do something about it.
If you are in the same shoes as me and you live in the province of Quebec, you might want to fix that because they are really looking at getting everyone.
At the beginning, I was looking at 2 choices: 1) Get extended Jeep flares and 2) get 33×10.50 tires which immediately meant new shocks, springs, wheels and since I’m running a gear ratio of 3.07 *sigh* new axles. Needless to say that option #2 quickly went out the window unfortunately. As much as I would have LOVED to change my current setup to this one, money-wise, it’s just not feasible.
There are quite a few extended Jeep flares kit out there and it’s all a matter of durability. Before doing anything to my Jeep, I literally spend days researching everything by reading on various jeep forums out there. After said research, the choices were:
After looking through pages and pages of info, reviews and testimonials from other Jeepers I decided to go with the Xenon Flat Flares because of:
1) The price: Alltough still expensive, they are cheaper than the Warn and Bushwackers flares.
2) The durability: From the countless testimonials, they seems to be very durable
3) The look/shape: I really like the shape of these. Many jeepers tend to do something similar to the original sahara flares in order to get more flex. I’m not one for off-roading in really rocky situations and I don’t go every week-end, but at least, they’ll cover my tires and if I ever do get to do more and need the flexing space, I’ll have it.
So they’ve been ordered. Not sure when they’ll get it but let’s hope it’s soon.
From No CSS Reset by Jonathan Snook:
“The problem I’ve had with these resets is that I then find myself declaring much more than I ever needed to just to get browsers back to rendering things the way I want. As it turns out, I’m perfectly happy with how a number of elements render by default. I like lists to have bullets and strong elements to have bolded text.”
I echo that declaration. I too used to start my stylesheet with the famous
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
The I found that I was putting back the same formatting that was already set by default on most of the elements.
As for building a base CSS stylesheet, I do have one but it mostly only contains the main separations for a site like #header, #content, etc…
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