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[Mid Oct-06] Did A Few Things

2006, October 17 - 6:29pm — vyvy

Scaled down version of the original photo I used to create the background images.

I took some photos of my Chinese abacus last night, selected one of them, and used the powerful GIMP to create some background images for this site. The theme may not look nicer but hopefully not too uglier. This theme makes use of the fixed background image supported by the CSS standard and popular browsers except, as 'expected', IE6. Fortunately, the IE7 patch by Dean Edwards is able to fix the problem and thus I've included it. IE6 users can see the effect but they suffer a bit from the performance, because IE6 browser needs to download an extra 24kb of the IE7 patch and execute the patch before they can see the correct effect. If a IE6 user does not turn on the javascript support, he or she will find this page ugly. Sorry that I don't intend to solve this just for IE6 at the moment. Can the real upcoming native Microsoft IE7 render the background properly?

I have finished reading and cracking the murder case of the latest Kindaichi comics (《金田一之狱门塾杀人事件》). If you are also solving the case, no worry to read on as I won't disclose any spoiler here. I first figured out the essential tricks, but had no idea who the murderer is! The main tricks are interesting, but in my opinion they suffer from some unexplained minor flaws. However, there seems to be no concrete evidence to point out the real murderer. After some thoughts, I had two guesses: It's most convenient for person A to commit the crime, but there's no evidence to point to her/him; It's not very convenient for person B to commit the crime, but there is a minor clue (with some flaws) that probably points to him/her. I read on and found that the murderer is really one of them, but evidences presented are really not convincing. If you are also solving this case, how do you think? All in all, I enjoy the comic but a bit disappointed by the flaws and unconvincing statements.

Although suffering from the toiletgate scandal, the World Chess Championship still finally completed with Kramnik winning the unified World Chess Champion. From 25-Nov-06 to 5-Dec-06, Kramnik will fight with the computer monster Deep Fritz in Germany. I hope that he can win the battle!