A few days ago I noted that we’ve had some technical difficulties. Really two things have happened: first, a hard drive that had most of our photos on it has become uncooperative and I’ve been trying to recover everything off of it with little success (I’ve even tried using dd to make a complete image of it, but the process seems to eventually fall asleep at just under 60 GB of the 120 GB drive). In any case, this has upset our usual flow of photo editing and article writing.
Secondly, from what I understand out website doesn’t display correctly in Internet Explorer. I only have access to Windows Vista at the moment so I know it displays correctly with IE 7, but I wouldn’t be surprised if our site is not pretty when viewed with earlier versions of IE common on Windows XP, 98 and other versions. I’m hoping to find time to fix this and perhaps even do away with the fixed column style we have right now, but this has consistently been an item at the bottom of the to do list.
So if you have had problems reading our website with IE, I apologize. I also strongly recommend that you try out the web browser Mozilla Firefox. Not only does our website display well with Firefox, but you’ll also have features like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, better security and you’ll be making the world a nicer place1. It’s very easy to install and use, so try it out.
1 Really, you will. I’m not joking. Web developers around the world will love you for it. :-)
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Hi Aaron,
you can try something which worked for me to recover your data on your hard drive : put it in a freezer for 1 hour, and then try a backup.
This is not a joke. I recovered a full disk this way two months ago …
Emmanuel
Aaron, you should check out browsershots which takes screenshots of your site in a multitude of browsers.
Of course everyone should use Firefox but I thought that site may interest you.
Aaron, confirmed: site menu instead of being to the right (firefox, what I normally use, nice) is at the bottom (internet explorer 6.0.2900…, xp, bad).