okay, now it works. still ugly, but whatever.
so I totally had the
oh, and this thread in
oh, and this thread in MeTa seems worth linking for posterity. mmmm…tasty css….
we had a long lovely
we had a long lovely afternoon, laying in bed & reading. I just finished stephenson’s cryptonomicon. I can’t decide if it is 2 shorter books that got crammed together, or one slimmer book weighed down by a bunch of extra crap. and I say that still thinking that I really enjoyed reading it, and having laughed loudly in many placed, and had wonderful ‘a-ha!’ moments all over the place. (btw, he sounds rather cranky on his web site, tho I suppose it comes with being famous among geeks.)
I love having Thursday afternoons off.
microsoft pisses me off. and I’m usually not a rabid foaming-at-the-mouth open sourcer, either. I like Word. I even like Outlook, god help me. and if IE didn’t crash all the fucking time, I might be a big fan of it, too. but this constant awful sniping monopolistic bullshit…guys, what’s your damage?
(I tried to post a message at slate, complaining about their changes, and kept getting an ASP.NET error message. ha!)
another try at a new design – the one I was working on didn’t go over well in other browsers. plus, I wasn’t happy with those browns on my monitor @ work. I also have a lovely palette in my coat pocket – blue/red/purple – that I want to fool about with.
an interesting quote from Rick
an interesting quote from Rick Steves (who I’ve watched for years & years on kbtc): “we don’t fit very well into this planet” – talking about americans & travel.
finally, finally, getting my act
finally, finally, getting my act together on a new design. I say about fucking time.
the bookfest was something of
the bookfest was something of a disappointment, really. not as many publishers as last year, no contests that I could find, more booths with toys/calendars/maps & other “goojers” — I blame the economy. I went with Kat (as usual) & her friend Mark (I don’t really know him that well, but I find him a nice guy), and the only reason we stayed as long as we did was that we sat in on one of the panels. which turned out to be sort of tiresome. alas.
which, combined with the (failing?) water heater & a nasty headache, made today not as happyshiny as one might have wished. but my haircut turned out great, as usual…I have another batch of work to do on their site, and, actually, I’m sort of thinking of doing a minor makeover, doing something that goes better with their new logo.
I still haven’t taken off
I still haven’t taken off my boots…which seems like a sign of something. this house hasn’t quite gotten into a feng-shui-happy-space. but it’s closer. the frankenstein computer is up & running…but needs work, lots & lots of work. ugh.
yipes, so much to do! still, I just made a bunch of notes for the jewelry catalog thing I want to do.
s….t….r….e….s….s…
