Excuse the last post. Brief lapse of sanity.
That’s the blessing/curse of a mind/personality like mine - I can focus single-mindedly on a problem of interest, but when that laser beam focus sputters out I’m at a loss for what to do next.
Stuff at work provides such fertile opportunities for improvement that I can play around and have a ball, but sometimes I crash and run out of steam - particularly when I lose some hope of my work seeing wider distribution than my cube.
I should really pick up the camera again, to change my focus for a time. Hard though, when temperatures are plummeting towards the bottom of the thermometer.
Work work work work work. Work work.
Work? Work work!
Work work work work. Work work work, work work… work work work work; work work wark - work work.
Work work: work…
Techies have long looked upon Microsoft’s Internet Exploder Explorer with disdain, and for good reason. Microsoft appears to hate standards, preferring to pretend to embrace them only to introduce subtle moderate glaring incompatibilities with the true standard. And by virtue of their virtual monopoly on the market, they force developers to cater to Microsoft’s “version”.
Well, I got bitten by one of those…
Both Gecko and WebKit (aka Mozilla/FireFox and Apple’s Safari, for the not-quite-so-techies) play nice with the standards, and worked just fine with my new theme (although FireFox’s JavaScript implementation is slow, which shows in the cute navigation menu script).
Internet Explorer, however, had several issues. The JavaScript had some weird quirk, apparently fixed by my transposing two lines (script includes - two JS files that were completely unrelated… one apparently really didn’t want to be included first?). And then some really silly stylesheet issues, quickly fixed (after I figured out what it was - which took a long time!) but technically (by the standard) should not have been required.
Grr… Microsoft has some great software, but anything touched by their marketing department seems to turn into a great big steaming pile of…
Well, plus-or-minus… but damn if it’s not hard, thinking about work after the holidays…
The holidays were a lot of fun this year - being newly-engaged and thus having a whole new bunch of family to celebrate with, it’s been much busier than past years. But a fun busy! Had the entirety of last week off, plus Monday and Tuesday this week (hence the difficulty thinking about work today). And we were running all week!
Last week we celebrated Christmas with Jenny’s family, my family, visited Jenny’s family in Wisconsin, and partied New Year’s Eve at Tony & Jenn’s… And now my arm is sore from playing EA Playground™ on the Wii (Christmas gift from Jenny - er, I mean Santa)!
And now to sleep, and then to work… Oh well… 14,233…
Really, the old one was stale… And monochromatic… Anyways, as neat as I thought it was (at the time), this one has more flavor…
Over the holidays, I’ve been on-and-off working on this new theme, including learning more about WordPress and how to really write a theme for it. That and better CSS…
Ooh, and some JavaScript, too! We’ve been using some at work, and I decided it’s progressed to the point where it’s useful without dealing with the HTML DOM directly (i.e., I’ve discovered mootools).
Anyways, neat rotating banner at the top, with pictures from our engagement trip up north (Bluefin Bay), Glacier National Park, and one right outside Jenny’s condo. Enjoy…
