It’s been a long week or so at work. For example, Monday lasted until 10:30pm (at the office, then working on some stuff at home until I don’t remember. Late. Or early. Depends on whether you’re coming or going.) and Tuesday started at 8:00am. Luckily, I had already purchased tickets for Passing Strange for Thursday otherwise it would have been a few late nights.

All of this because of Internet Explorer 6! Usually, things aren’t so bad and I can tick off in my head what will be problematic in IE6. It’s never been a cakewalk, but this time took the, well, cake. I’ve stayed far, far away from PNGs precisely because of lack of support by IE6, but the designers in charge this time around had other ideas.

First, there are two types of workaround for the PNG issue: PNGs on the page, i.e. the <img> tag, and PNG CSS background images. And don’t forget that random javascripts might want to fight each other. And since I’m running Multiple IE’s there are some conflicts between IE6 and IE7 as well. Basically, I could tell if the PNG fixes were working in IE6 because I wouldn’t be able to see any images on the page. Which doesn’t mean that things were a-ok in IE6. Since I was unable to see the page in its entirety, I had to keep looking at my co-workers machine to see if things look alright (sorry!).

I could go on and on about the details of how much this sucked. This pie chart sums it up so nicely that it makes me want to cry more than laugh.

I won’t go on and on, however. It did get me thinking though - over the years so many projects were complicated and extended just because IE6 wouldn’t play nice. Seriously days, weeks, spent just on IE6 troubleshooting. And that’s just me. Add in all those people who included that pie chart in Flickr, and the all those people with blog posts titles “I hate IE6″, “Dear IE6 please die” … it made me think “class action lawsuit”. Bitches.

To the sidebar.

The happiest day of the year. I thought it only affected those who knew me.

Once, many blog posts ago, I posted about the saddest day of the year. Here’s the belated follow up.

Summer hours.

New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere

Must have accidentally activated a different theme. Thanks for pointing that out.

As of last Friday - I have a new job. I’ll start on June 2.

First awesome thing? My commute shortens by 3 stops and I have two trains to choo-choo-choose from.

Perfect! Now I just need a place to store my bike on ground level instead of lugging it up and down four flights.

From the NYT:

• Double the number of bicycle commuters by 2015.
• Add 200 miles worth of new bicycle lane between 2007 and 2009. (if so, we hope they are not as hideously colored as the ones in Brooklyn Heights)
• Install 37 bicycle parking shelters (did you even know there was such a thing?) and 5,000 CityRack bike parking racks by 2011. (many of these, of yet-to-be-determined designs)
• Install 15 additional miles of protected on-street bike lanes by 2010 and 30 miles from 2011 to 2015.

While in the Columbus Circle area the other day, a soft-spoken and non-native English speaker came up to me asking about Carnegie Hall. It took me all of 45 seconds after speaking with him to realize I had missed the best opportunity ever - he was asking how to get to Carnegie Hall! I could have kicked myself. Well, sir, practice, practice, practice!

I wonder if he would have found it funny.

Updated WordPress to 2.5 and was further inspired to make some other changes, including deleting all my old content. Also created a little widget and graphic for Pepopowitz.