Today’s annoying project: stripping out all the crap code that word inserts into it’s so-called “saved as html” pages. I have actually found a program that produces worse code than Fusion. Predictably, it’s from M$.
Category Archives: Grumbles
It's friday evening… why am I at work?
Well, I thought friday was going fine. Work all day, cash paycheck, buy groceries, and relax at the bookstore for an hour. Cool, huh? Then I get home, and there’s a message from my boss on the machine. Turns out a quickie addition to a client’s main page did not meet with approval, and had to be removed. So at 9:00, I find myself *back* at work, fixing the page. Yeesh.
Die Hard is playing in the background, and I’m thinking that if you put all the snarling bad guys from all the old action movies together in the same room, it still wouldn’t be as scary as the world is right now.
Time to grump about Fusion
It can’t handle CSS. Period. I mean, it shouldn’t be too hard to make a WYSIWYG program that can handle a simple SPAN tag, should it? Everyone else has been able to do it. But not, apparently, Fusion. People complain about having to hack dreamweaver so it’ll produce compliant code, but you have to hack fusion just so it’ll produce code that looks like it was written in the year 2000.
The only thing it’s decent at is producing absolutely positioned pages that work without a hitch everywhere. It’s a combination of CSS-P divs and LAYER tags on top of one another that I haven’t been able to reliably reproduce by hand.
And it’s fast. It lets me crank shit out way faster than anything else. Because of the speed and ease, my boss is in love with it. So much so that even though the company got de-listed from NASDAQ, we have no plans to even train on any other software, much less migrate any sites. But it produces code that’s so god awful embarrassing that I don’t even want to own up to producing most of it.
End rant. I feel better now.
Stuck working late
It’s 6:00 and I’m still at work. Yeerg. Very much looking foward to the B5 tape waiting for me. Not looking foward to the pile of dishes also waiting for me.
Yuppies should not move to the country
Neighbor A has a horse stable and spreads manure on their field. Neighbor B dislikes the scent and wants it to stop, regardless of how this would affect neighbor A’s life, buisness, and livelihood.
Why does this interest me? Well, the story is from my old hometown newspaper, which I check up on online now and then ’cause I miss living there. Why am I writing this? ‘Cause I lived for 13 years next to a field that had manure spread on it every spring and you know what? If you wanna live out in the country, there are some things you just gotta deal with. You can’t have all the happy, picturesque, lovin’ the nature vibes without dealing with the reality that you live near actual, functional, down and dirty *farms*.
Personally, I think farms are wonderfull and beautiful. They are also a lot of hard work and yup – they got odors. If neighbor B is unwilling to deal wih this, they should look around for a place which is more picturesque and less real. Why am I so upset? Because in the last 20 years real, functional farms in Sussex county have been going the way of the dodo. Farmers die and the kids don’t want to continue the buisness, bad economy forces some to fold, selling off acerage for subdivisions is more profitable… etc….
I have watched fields and pastures turned into surburban tracts and it shreds my heart every time I go home. And then the middle class twanks who move in want their nature *sanitized*?
Angry now.