Urgh.

Dear Me:
  When I go to bed at 10:00 pm with my alarm set for 6:00 am, the plan is NOT to wake up at 3:00 am from a nightmare in which things are burrowing into my brain.

No love,
   Me.

Bleah. It'll probably be a while before I can fall asleep again now.

Captain Star

I've been meaning to ask this for a while: does anyone know where I could get episodes of Captain Star? I've been looking for ages but haven't found anything.

Sleep?

Well, I've had some cheese, I've had a rather potent vodka and OJ and I've watched a documentary on Ancient Greece. I'm now feeling both somewhat sleepy and rather inebriated (hey -- even drunk I can spell that!) so off to bed again I go.

G'night everyone!

Awake Again.

Just re-awoke after getting back to sleep after that nightmare. In contrast I had a surprisingly good dream in which I woke to a house in turmoil due to a series of unlikely good events. We were getting a free dishwasher installed in our kitchen cabinets, some friends of my brother had spontaneously delivered a new bed for the master bedroom, I discovered that my internet modem had a wall -projection mode (wtf?) and for some reason the freezer was full of frozen desserts but I didn't get around to asking about that as I was trying to make myself an espresso amidst the chaos, because it was morning.

And then I really woke up.

The Evil that is IE.

I've got a simple question: is it possible to get IE to reliably produce monospaced text so that you could, for instance, display ASCII art using it? I had assumed the answer was 'Yes', but a recent experiment seems to belie that notion.

If you check this out, you'll see a not-quite-finished web page about Unicode's box drawing characters and my attempts at using them to, well, draw boxes. The (unfinished) chart at the very bottom of the page is made by sticking a whole bunch of unicode entities together inside a monospaced font statement.

In Firefox this looks exactly as intended. In IE its a mess because the spaces and the line-drawing characters are different sizes, despite being inside a monospace area. I'm not sure how, or if, its possible to fix in IE. Anyone know?