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So I wake up this morning, and it's snowing yet again :-). I'm going downtown in a bit, but I was tidying up my webpages a little bit more, to work nicely with Mozilla-based browsers. A good tidbit of CSS information for you:

body.journal
{	text-align: center;
	}

body.journal p table
{	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	}

The first fragment works in IE to center my journal page, but it doesn't do anything for Mozilla. The second fragment does it for Mozilla, but not IE. It's the browser wars again, only with CSS functionality as opposed to HTML.

Either way, this is an easy one to work around for now. I'm done this, so now I will go and work on my daily summary for HTTC before I go downtown.

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Ok, so this morning I ran out of the house at 9.10am, and made it to the stop for the #151 just in the nick of time as the bus was pulling up. I went to NewMIC downtown. I was supposed meet Gordon & Tom (my boss) there at 10am. I was there 9.55am. Tom didn't turn up till 10.05am (he had another meeting in the same building before this tho). We waited until 10.15am for Gordon, and since he wasn't showing up, we went to NewMIC on our own. We had just got in, and started discussing things with Brian when Gordon showed up. The doors in the first skytrain he was on got jammed, then they cut the power between Broadway and Joyce for a while so he was stuck for a bit. Anyway we discussed the Onyx systems and software packages to use for the 3D work, then we went to see NewMIC's cave setup.

Their display setup puts ours at TechBC to shame. Their onyx has an extra graphics pipe, and they have 4 projectors (3 wall, 1 floor). They can also change their screen configuration a lot easier than us, as theirs is designed to flip between a theatre mode (3 screens together) and a cave setup. (cube with 2 faces missing). They also have proper head and controller tracking systems, which we haven't purchased yet. With their tracking stuff, you can do demos and really point to the thing in 3D that you want people to see. But using the cave mode in 3D with tracking is really impressive. The one thing that really got me, was caveQuake3. I can literally peak around the corner and see just that bit 8-)! I would really like to get the guns and multiplayer going in that, as then I can really whip some rear end properly. No more turning around to check your rear, I can just look over my shoulder. Plus ducking and jumping would become literal movements making it a lot easier for me to dodge missiles 8-).

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After being downtown, I called Marissa from a landline because my cellphone battery died, and left to go up to SFU. The weather was really starting to get bad, with a lot of slush on the roads by this point.

At the corner of Gaglardi and University Way, where the bus normally turns left after coming up the mountain from Hastings, the bus had to go straight, because there was another bus that had jack-knifed coming down the mountain, and it was blocking the road. The amount of snow up by SFU was boggling. The better part of a foot of snow I would say.

I met Marissa, put a better graphics card in her computer (because I wanted the crappy 1Mb Cirrus card for something myself). We had lunch (subs, soup and strawberry milkshake), then because the weather was turning really nasty, I left right away to come home. On the #144 down, I ran into Leanne Page, but couldn't stop to talk to her for long. She looks like she has really matured a lot since high school, and she has gotten a bit taller too (She is taller than me!).

Trudged the rest of the way home in the slush, managed to get my socks quite wet, as well as the bottom of my pants. Tommorow morning I will wear my snowboots to go to TechBC, and put my slippers in my bag to wear once I am at TechBC. 8-).

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