I just read/skimmed Naughty or Nice? CSS Background Images [http://24ways.org/]. Now this is an old post (2005), and I don't remember how I stumbled on it, but the post makes a good point - don't stick in CSS what should be delivered via content.

I always try (with mixed success, I admit - it depends on how much control I have) to load my pages in lynx or some other text based browser to make sure I can still get around. I increasingly find sites that are not navigable sans full-graphical-browser tricks.

So. For a few reasons, I have been moving my websites and domains off to hostmonster: a) free transfer + renewal; b) registerfly has been sucking, and some of my domains got caught in the registerfly/enom.com fiasco, and I really just want to get them the hell out, c) hostmonster has ssh, php, mysql, ruby on rails - pretty much anything I ever wanted to tinker with, d) I can stick however many domains on my account that I want to.

The downside: CPanel, and DNS manipulation. I am used to having my hands right on the DNS records - with CPanel, not only can I not touch the records, but in certain cases, they have rules (either self imposed or imposed by CPanel's Web Host Manager thing) that just plain prevent me from doing what I want. I hate not being able to do what I want. (whine whine whine).

But look what I found: EditDNS.net - A DNS provider of free web hosting and a bunch of other goodies. They thrive on donations of course, but still... worth a try, I think.

Getting networking up and running on the T60p has been a mixed bag. On one hand, the wired connection was easy (expected). The wireless was at first REALLY flaky, then after some fiddling the connection at home (WEP) was functional, and as of now (when I'm finally posting this thing) it still doesn't work at work (LEAP).

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I have what I tried below, but I eventually dropped the attempt. The Lenovo modules hung up VMWare any time I tried to boot it that way, and while I could mount the NTFS partition used by WinXP R/W with the tools below, I could not easily get WinXP to look at the lion's share of the drive. (My fault, really - if I weren't so attached to other filesystem types, I could probably have made this work).

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I was fiddling with migrations, and found these regarding the use of MySQL-ish ENUMs in Migrations:

• Enum fields in migrations? [rails.techno-weenie.net]
• HowtoUseSetAndEnumColumns [wiki.rubyonrails.com]

Basically, ENUMs aren't supported, and using Validations might be a good work-around, but is dependent on you putting (and keeping) all of the logic in your Rails app. If you need to go cross-app (with some other thing that ain't rails), then use CHECK or other DB constraints to enforce desired values.