Couple of quick questions

[robinturner]

I normally save my factual questions for mailing lists, but none of ones I'm subscribed to seem relevant to these, so I'll see what the combined knowledge and goodwill of my LJ friends can achieve.

1. Are there any nice CSS tricks that will do something interesting to a graphical link on a mouseover (i.e. the graphic equivalent to "hover")?


2. On a UNIX account, is there any way to set my .forward list so that, when people receive forwarded mail, the "From:" field is filled by the address of the account, not the sender?


3. How do you make the batter for Chinese prawn/chicken/whatever balls come out both thick and fluffy?

My guess is that Arya can answer all three.

Comments

[solri.livejournal.com]

1. Maybe I'll forget it - I can't be bothered with javascript. A while back I decided that,given my limited time, I should learn Perl EOR Java(script) AND LaTeX EOR some other markup language. Given what a computer conservative I am, I opted for the former in each case (there's also the fact that many people browse with javascript disabled). I found something you can do with borders but it's hard getting an effect which will work on a range of browsers.


2. A web-based list would be better, but would take me too long to set up - I really have to get it up and running this week. I suppose if there are students who want to remain anonymous, I can just ask them to set up a different mail account for use with the list (I don't want them to be completely anonymous, as I have to check for list abuse).


3. Thanks!

[arya.livejournal.com]

Ooops, sorry, at Sam's house and accidentally posted as him. Hehe :)

I can write you a php diary, it would take me about 20 minutes, if that. I can also give you the sql to create the database to store the entries. Of course, this is all dependent upon whether or not you have access to a webserver with both php (3 or better) AND a mysql database that you've got create, insert, update and delete privs on. If you do have somewhere to put this, let me know and I'll get cracking on it.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Twenty minutes? That's my Arya!
I'm not sure what my account's capabilities are - seems like a bog-standard UNIX user's account. I'll ask my sysadmin in the morning.