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Across Australia on a bike

 Jakub Postrzygacz desided that regular mountain biking routes just aren’t any fun so he set himself a challenge – cycling the Canning Stock Route in western australia across three deserts, nine hundred steep sand hills and to top it all there’s no decent supply of food or water and no safe way of escape for nearly 2.000 kilometers.

This isn’t just any old route and you can tell that just by looking at his bike that rolls on 4 inch!! wide tires (regular MTB sizes are 1.8-2.3) to float on sand rather than sink. It would be completely impossible to do this on regular wheels unless you want to push 90% of the way.

CSR has been marked out nearly 100 years ago
by Alfred Canning to drive the cattle from Perth to the
opposite corner of the continent. However, the
conditions were so harsh and casualties so high that
CSR never truly served its purpose and was forgotten.
In 1968 a group of surveyors for the first time drove
the complete length of the track with specially prepared
motor vehicles. Despite numerous attempts, no-one
has ever cycled CSR…

Insane…

 
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The One True Layout

Alex Robinson came up with some ideas for achieveing a  One True (CSS) Layout

He lists his goals as:

Total Layout Flexibility
That is, the ability to order columns logically in the source while displaying them in any order desired. For any number of columns.

Equal Height Columns
Or more accurately, equal height columns without having to rely on faux columns.

Vertical placement of elements across grids/columns
Designers face the choice of relying on elements being a particular height, resorting to tables or simply not bothering.

The solutions are quite interesting and he clearly put a lot of effort into finding solutions around bugs in various browsers.

I’ll seriously have a go at his approach since I really dislike the idea of using faux columns to achieve the badly needed effect of equal height columns. In fact it could hardly come up at a better time.

 

Dilbert Blog

This one is for the fans of the geeky  Dilbert comic strip (  [rss]: RSS feed )

Scott Adams decided to start writing a  Dilbert Blog and it makes an interesting addition to the comic itself.

 

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