So with the day job, and the freelancing, I haven’t had time for anything resembling a life lately. But there are advantages to this. Whereas my dayjob paycheck is earmarked for boring survival things like rent, bills, food, and car stuff, the freelancing paycheck has the following destinations:
- New winter coat (the current winter coat is about 14 years old and *looking it* - in spite of much sentimental value, it needs to be retired.)
- New dress for upcoming wedding. (No way I can avoid going to this one, so I at least want to look really good.) And, as I recently found out while playing wishful dress up at Macy’s, I’m still a size six.
If there’s any left over, it’s going into savings.
Top 10 reasons to learn CSS. The article itself is fine, but I have to wonder if it’s not a little passe. All the hand coders that are *going* to be convinced to hop onto the CSS boat have already done so. The designers that are left creating tag soup are the ones stuck using WYSIWYG software like Dreamweaver and Fusion. It’s time to stop trying to convince the designers and start convincing the software makers. Again. Like they had to be convinced to produce software that output valid code.
And of course, not all WYSIWYG software spits out valid code even now. (I’m looking at *you*, Fusion.)
But (and god, it pains me to have to admit this) sometimes, getting s**t done *now* is more important the getting it done perfectly.
So once again, if we really want to see CSS hit the big time, we have to make it easier to produce a css site with the software tools folks are using than it would be for them to produce a table based site using that same software.
So I’ve got the head cold from hell going on. My sinuses cleared up yesterday (mostly) and my throat only hurts a little. In fact, I’m only a little lethargic now. so what’s the down side? No voice. Just this tiny, scratchy, cracking, joke of a sound. Any idea how hard it is to make a telemarketer go away when you’re yelling and he still can’t hear you?
Even worse, I still had to take sales calls at work today. If I yelled and *really* enunciated, the customers could hear me. This is probably why I went from just sounding silly this morning to not being able to produce anything above a whisper now. Really hoping that a good night’s sleep fixes some of this. We’re short staffed and heading into the busy season. Even knowing that I have half a voice, they can’t avoid giving me the calls. There’s just too many of them coming in.
So, seeing as I can’t speak but can move, I figured I should do some cooking. Note to self - cooking when one can’t smell and can barely taste anything is a hit or miss game.
It seems, spammers have started targeting Movable Type blogs. I’m depressed yet unsurprised.
One great quote, and one great vid.
The rest of the time, I’m reduced to looking through the viewfinder and just *knowing* that I won’t be able to do justice to what I’m looking at.
This mope brought to you by the fact that I tromped though some beautiful early fall fields with my camera today, and none of the pictures do justice to the sheer magic of the season.
Must go work on that.