~ the servers hosting the angry red planet and its family of sites are located in orlando, florida, one of the targets of hurricane charley; if you have noticed an inability to reach any of the sites in the past couple of days you now know the cause to which you can attribute this misfortune.

~ while checking out the new system on the mac, we found that the background for the text boxes were missing. it has been like this for at least a month, we presume, though we know we checked at the time we put up the pngs. no one mentioned anything to us; maybe people thought that we intended them to read green text over an orange background, maybe no one has used internet explorer, or maybe no one cared that we were demonstrating our incompetence. are we the ones who are incompetent because mac/ie has native transparent png support but win/ie does not? however, mac/ie does not support background filters that win/ie does! regardless, the only solution we could find to this involved javascript; we found that idea unappealing, so we instead created a 2nd stylesheet just for mac/ie. if you are looking at this in mac/ie, for pete’s sake get safari or firefox [w].

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