Darkoshi

tippy tappy

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:46:02 GMT

I am amused at myself for the term I just used when speaking to my dog about me using my laptop:
"doing my little tippy-tappy".

Tippy-tappy also describes the sound of her paws when she walks across wood floors. It's a cute sound except when you keep hearing it when you're trying to fall asleep. But from what I've read, it indicates her nails are too long. It's difficult for me to cut her nails as she squirms so much and pulls her paws away when I try. Also, the last time I did, I cut one nail too far and it started bleeding. That made me feel bad. Before I try again, I plan to buy some styptic powder to stop the bleeding in case it happens again.

To get her quicks to recede to make them less likely to get hurt and bleed, I will need to cut her nails fairly often, little by little (some tips I found are listed below). At her annual vet checkup last week, they trimmed her nails for us, so that's a good start.

Dog Grooming: How To Trim Nails On Difficult Dogs
(Wrap dog in towel like a burrito, but with paws sticking out. So actually, more like an enchilada.)

How To SUCCESSFULLY Recede The Quicks (Watch If You Have Struggled!)
(She says to cut around the quick from the front, top, and sides. That way it will recede.
Make sure the clippers are sharp, not dull, so they can slice thru the nails rather than crush them.)

How often should you do a dog's nails to recede the quicks? | ADVICE FROM A DOG GROOMER
@2:48 photo of nails before & after trim - shows them ground from the top edge not just the bottom.
She grinds them every 2 weeks for normal trimming.
@4:45 even 3 sessions 5 weeks apart made the quicks recede.

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Note to self: To include an "at symbol" (@) in my posts before another character, and to avoid it being interpreted as a mention and replaced with a user head icon and invalid link, I should use the HTML code: &commat;
"commat" stands for commercial at.

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blockquote italics

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:55:43 GMT

When I use the HTML "blockquote" tag in a post (as in my previous entry), the quoted section is not only indented, but also italicized. (For some reason, this has never bothered me until today.) This doesn't happen on non-DW pages, so must be due to the journal styling. Do any of you know a simple way to change my journal style to prevent the italicization, without totally changing the style?

Update:
I figured out how to fix it!
Under "Settings - Journal Style - Customize Your Theme - Custom CSS - Use embedded CSS", I added this:

blockquote
{
font-style: normal;
}

But now after having played around with the other links, I'm tempted to switch to a different journal style anyway, for a change.

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Dreamwidth profiles; image floating

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:58:50 GMT

This explains why my HTML and CSS tags weren't working right on the Dreamwidth profile page.

To maximize cross-browser compatibility and make the site more accessible for people with disabilities, we use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to strip all browser default styling from many HTML tags on site-skinned pages.

The default CSS used on the page seems to override any non-CSS formatting attributes which you might include, and if you include any CSS "style" attributes, they get stripped out.

That said, if you include an "img" tag with class="profile", it will use these CSS settings:

 
.profile {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 70px;
}

thereby letting your text float to the right of the image, with a padding of 70 pixels between them.

On a rather unrelated note, here are some interesting floating staircases.

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