I am not going to explain exactly why and how I use these applications, but ask you to take my word for their great strength. I have in almost all cases tried out many of the available alternatives, and picked the ones mentioned below for their ease of use, their power, and most importantly: for…

Thanks to “Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style” by Nick Rigby, I finally succeeded in making the better navigation available to Internet Explorer users. As far as I can check this, it all seems to work.The changes are almost completely in CSS, but I used a Java script to let IE work with the hover styles I…

I have ruined this weblog. All entries have a singular creation date. Much as I hate this, I can now confirm that as of now it is working aright again, i.e. from June 24th onwards, new entries will be on top.

Ever since it came out, I used Synk to synchronise my three Harddisks (presently all Mac OS X), one on a Powerbook, one on a desktop G4 and, lastly, one over an SSH Tunnel. Synk started as shareware, but now it is a free download.Synk has always worked perfectly, and I mean exactly that, until…

Type-setting my texts I made a switch to particular software running on the Unix foundations of Mac OSX. This software is highly manipulable and utterly trustworthy! The following fall into that category: LaTeX (I finally did away with MSWord.)BibTex (This is exactly the bibliography software I need)TeXShop (to work with LaTeX and BibTex)Excalibur (as a…

After a year long frustrating struggle, I finally found my way out of Internet Explorer’s (lower than IE6 versions) incapacity to render boxes the way I want them rendered and its failure to recognize hover anywhere but in links.I wrote a special CSS2-style sheet for IE-browsers and placed a Javascript on top of all my…

QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Kochfreelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and largely free…

De website van Consilium Philosophicum. Filosofisch advies en onderzoek is grondig herzien. Hij is in CSS omgezet, gebruikmakend van SSI (Server Side Includes). Dat maakt het voor mij gemakkelijker om de site up to date te houden.

De website van mijn eigen bedrijf, Consilium Philosophicum, is niet bepaald ‘up to date’, maar dat gaat ergens in de a.s. winter helemaal veranderen. Voor een overzicht van mijn werkzaamheden zij voorlopig verwezen naar mijn academische site.

Revamped my blog. Among others, I added indexes of the various categories. unfortunately, to do that, I had to make certain changes in older files, which, consequently got a more recent modification date. I sincerely hope that this was the last time I had to break in to the blog logic. I’ll do my best…