Author: yuval

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General

MLB.TV: As evil as it gets

So last year I was travelling a lot and spoiled myself with a subscription to MLB.TV – MLB’s TV service online that allows you to watch most games live online.
MLB.TV was not cheap, around $90, and now that I am a homeowner I am not going to splurge again.

One thing that is not too clear is that once you sign up, MLB assumes you want to auto-renew. Which means that they will charge your credit card, which they politely kept on file, without your explicit permission, really. They are nice enough to tell you that in an email.

That same email also tells you that if you do not cancel before the first day of the season – you CANNOT cancel or get any refund. How nice?

And how can you cancel? That part is NOT self-service, as opposed to their sign-up process. You have to either call or write them an email. You all know how useful email is in confirming its reception, so I gave them a call. The representative first told me that no, I cannot cancel becaue I committed to the subscription. I raised my voice a bit, got a bit more aggressive, mentioned the supervisor, and he put me on hold. 8 minutes later he told me that my subscription will be canceled and that I will receive a confirmation email within 3 days.

Bastards.

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Commercials

Got fast?

What do you get when you combine anime-inspired graphite ball with evil eyes and sharp legs?
You get your fast.
What do you get when you unleash Peter Stormare (Steve Buschemi’s partner in Fargo) and a sexy lab assistant on a pimped out car?
You get “vee dub in da haus“.
It takes about 5 times to see these sets of commercials to get the idea and when you do, they are so cool. “What’s this for?” asks the sexy lab assistant, pointing at an air scoop installed on the hood of a Mitsubishi Eclipse. “Its for sucking air” answers the worried owner. “It’s good for sucking!” she quips back. Seconds later the car is destroyed, making way for the GTI behind it.

Word to VW: commercials are sweet. Cars that hold togethre are better. I will stick with less cool, and less mechanic than very cool and soon to be broken.

Still, throwing money at really different commericals is nice.

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Computing Web Development

IE border rendering bug

Another Internet Explorer bug for the books:
Create a <div> element and give it a border, something like:

div.product_intro
{
border-width: 0.1em 0.1em 0em 0em;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #ccc;
padding-top: 0.7em;
padding-right: 0.7em;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}

You would expect it to look something like this.

Now scroll down the page so that the div is obscured and outside your viewport (the broswer no longer shows it).

Scroll back up.

This is what I got. Where did they border go?

The fix (so far): Set the width for the div explicitly. That also cures another outrageous bug where IE pushes divs around the aforementioned div with irrational spacing.

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