Keeping an eye on this

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Kevin’s place of business is going to get one of those Walmart-Microtel Linux PC’s to see how it works. I’ll have to be sure to keep an eye on what Kevin has to say about it. I’ve been thinking of picking one of those up as a cheap “learning” machine for myself.

Short day today, taking half day vacation so Angela and I can take our nephew to COSI for the afternoon. Speaking of which, is anyone else having difficulty with the table widths on her blog? I can view it with Mozilla on the XP machine, IE 6 on Win 98, IE5.5 on 2000 and they all look fine, but in IE 6 on XP the table widths are all wrong. It didn’t used to be, maybe I’ve set something wrong?

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