yay me. this document validates as html 4.01 strict! i think it is possible to create valid xhtml using blogger, but it will be necessary to turn of the preservation of blank lines and start typing in paragraph tags by hand. this is going to be tedious, but not difficult. just as tedious and not difficult as changing all the &s to &s in the urls in the archives has been. argh. i need beer.
3/31/2002 05:08:14 PM #
my darling book page, i've neglected you recently. like a childhood sweetheart eclipsed by flashy adolescence, other things seemed more exciting than dependable old you. but now i've come back, and i bring you these four new reviews as a peace offering. i also bring you your own mailing list.
3/31/2002 03:08:53 PM #
thanks to little black cat for spotting the piece in usa today which gets the harry potter five publication date thing going again. bloomsbury's website is still refusing to give a real date, though their chairman does appear in the guardian being slightly more specific.
i don't know the truth behind all this, obviously. maybe jk has writer's block. judging from goblet of fire i'd say the opposite is true. i am left therefore thinking that this is some kind of marketing ploy, to achieve -- what? higher fever pitch than we already have? barely possible, but if this is the intention, i think it will majorly backfire. why did the manufacturer of pokemon make so many monsters? because crazes need feeding. constantly. otherwise we move onto the next thing. i suggest that it was only the carrot of the movie that got us through last year's potter-free zone. a known publication date would indeed turn up the heat, but this constant maybe, maybe only serves to make us feel cynically manipulated. and that can only be a turn-off.
3/31/2002 01:44:34 PM #
my eight from the eighties.
1) do you like mondays? tell me why. i loathe mondays. they are the day of the devil. because i have to go back to work on them. it's always less terrible than i think it will be, but that doesn't rid mondays of their pall of terror.
2) are you footloose? i am without doubt the world's worst dancer. uncoordinated and self-conscious. but i have a now-not-so-secret desire to learn belly-dancing, so if i can find some classes, this may change.
3) are you a smooth criminal? hopeless. if sixteen years of sunday school instilled anything into me, it was a sense of guilt. i can't even pay a bill late.
4) when you call me, you can call me... sue or suzie, so long as you spell the latter with a z. never ever susan if you want to live.
5) do you talk to strangers? yes. i frequently ask obviously lost people on the tube if they are lost... they look at me like i'm the crazy they've been warned about... i get upset and vow that next time the ingrates can stay lost...
6) have you ever had a one night love affair? hah! patrick once told me that my ideal relationship was the one night stand, and there are times when he was entirely correct. i am an old slapper.
7) what sad songs make you cry? miss you nights by art garfunkel. makes me howl.
8) (thanks listener!) don't say a prayer for me now, save it til'... the seas freeze over. religion is a waste of effort and people who say earnestly i'll pray for you make me want to scream.
3/31/2002 06:53:10 AM #
another one down, at least 628 to go. vive la revolution!
3/30/2002 06:05:01 PM #
this: beautiful code and utterly hypnotic.
3/29/2002 10:40:02 AM #
there's an unfamiliar round yellow light in the sky and i feel all the winter depression draining out of me. this winter has been one of the worst yet. i've made no huge flamboyant gestures like sticking knives into my arms, which have recovery after the crisis. it's just been a low-grade greyness that's spread like slime over everything, infesting all the sweetness with a taste like decay. and thus slinks its way into everything unnoticed. i thought that i would never feel happy again.
and then one sunny friday, i do.
3/29/2002 09:56:53 AM #
my friday five
1. if you could eat dinner with and "get to know" one famous person (living or dead), who would you choose? guy gavriel kay, because i like his books and i have a sneaking suspicion he's... is it actionable to say quote bit of a perv unquote?
2. has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? who was it and how did you feel? yeah, the death of princess diana affected me very deeply. i wished fervently that the papers and the world in general would talk about something else. in life, i could ignore her: in death, it became impossible.
3. if you could be a famous person for 24 hours, who would you choose? someone famous but not really... i really couldn't stand having the paparazzi camped on my doorstep. i would be the liam gallagher-alike on the front pages of the tabloids making expressive gestures.
4. do people ever tell you that you look like someone famous? who? [nope.]
5. have you ever met anyone famous? i nearly got run over by steve davis the snooker player, of whom no one outside the uk will have heard... i once walked slap bang into martin clunes the actor in bridport, dorset. he's the guy out of men behaving badly. somehow i feel that everyone else will be going on about royalty and rockstars here, but this is the best i can do.
3/29/2002 06:19:24 AM #
ooh mail from amazon. when marnie was there is now in the post. i haven't read this since i was about nine so i am filled with trepidation.
3/28/2002 06:03:13 PM #
so this morning i'm checking my page stats and in the referrals is a link to someone else's stats. and the login name on the url is styn. could john halcyon styn have been here?! i've been touched by the hand of god. it's even more exciting than when guy gaviel kay read what i wrote about tigana.
3/28/2002 04:01:11 PM #
sometimes on the internet amazing things happen. one of those things would be if someone took something you said off the cuff on icq and turned it into poetry.
3/27/2002 07:50:52 PM #
an interesting article on usability by meg hourihan. also this one by adam greenfield.
3/26/2002 11:27:31 PM #
you remember the episode of buffy where spike says to giles, quote, did your whole life flash before your eyes? cup of tea, cup of tea, nearly had a shag, cup of tea... unquote. and although my life feels a bit like that today, it has been a nice excuse to post that quote.
which listener told me to blog a while back.
3/26/2002 10:41:00 PM #
black sabbath songs in latin with mediaeval instruments. i spent a long time listening to this. i haven't a clue why. oh, and the band are estonian. can it get any better!
3/26/2002 09:36:46 PM #
a university interviewee is asked if the moon is made of green cheese. aside from the obvious fact that the moon is made of a small, round, white cheese, possibly camembert, no one who has been through the university interview process will think this is strange in the slightest.
3/26/2002 01:44:25 PM #
malaysian businessmen put a new slant on telling your relatives to go to hell.
3/26/2002 01:39:32 PM #
sorry if that last post is yukky, but this is a major thing for me. i'm alright like i am, i'm alright like i am, i'm alright like i am...
3/25/2002 11:22:39 PM #
i decided today that i'm not going to go to fat club any more. i've been hovering at an average of a pound and a half off my goal weight since november. i can't do it. i feel bingey and bulimic. i want to be sick and i want to stuff myself with toast, and i do eat bunches more laxatives than can possibly be good for me. so i'm going to stop trying to lose weight. i am a perfectly respectable 140 pounds. my bmi is 24. the only reason i want to lose any more is the same arbitrary numbers reason as i don't want to have another birthday. want to be under thirty years old, want to be under ten stone. and you know what? neither one is going to happen.
3/25/2002 09:37:03 PM #
the royal tenenbaums. ohmigod. i laughed so hard i thought my head would explode.
luke wilson. drool.
3/24/2002 10:10:17 PM #
and we have comments. thank you blogkomm, an amazingly easy install. what i like most about this comment system is that it doesn't use pop up windows. pop up windows being, as we all know, the coding of the devil. so please write something, all those no comments no comments make me feel sad and unloved. sniff.
also hello to bagatell a norwegian knitting blog which is linking to mine, even though there's so little in it i wasn't going to join in the knitting blogging elsewhere until i had a bit more to show for myself.
and finally, on the if i post it, i have to do it model, my tasks for the rest of the afternoon are. write up book reviews for cadfael, the magician's assistant and the blue lenses. sweep up all the mud which has fallen off b's shoes, my own shoes being naturally entirely innocent in the matter. do some washing or buy new clothes. fiddle around with my blogger settings so that this page might ever stand a hope of validating. gulp.
3/24/2002 01:47:38 PM #
i apologise to the two per cent of people showing up here using netscape 6, who until this morning were unable to see the lovely list of links there on the right. the problem, it transpires, is that i had written the list <li>item</li> when n6 requires whitespace before the closing tag. if this whitespace is not included, apparently not just the list, but the entire div that contains it, is not displayed. wtf?! i hate that browser, i really do.
3/24/2002 01:18:46 PM #
my eight from the eighties.
1) you might as well face it, you're addicted to... funny, i get this song stuck in my head all the time. recently mr palmer has been singing you're addicted to blog. hmmnm.
2) all I really need to do is find myself a brand new... job. memo to self. get off your bottom and do it.
3) who's the wind beneath your wings? b. funny how you can live with someone for seven years and be married for nearly as long, and realise with a certain amount of surprise how in love with them you are.
4) who gives love a bad name? me in combination with certain exs. ugh. not going there!
5) are you too shy? yep, irl. pathetically. except when drunk.
6) do you work hard for the money? so hard for the money... yep, i earn every bloody penny. twice over. they just only pay me once.
7) there's something strange in your neighborhood. who you gonna call? the environmental health department?
8) (thanks sue!) why do I find it hard to write the next line? you used my question! deb i heart you! when robert palmer (see above) finally gives over, i often get alison moyet singing i'm all blogged out. serious answer is that i don't actually know if anyone i know irl reads this, and i don't know if i'll get away with blogging them... i can quite envisage a dooce kind of situation where the man fires me over this page because i've mentioned the crazy woman and how much she upsets me once too often.
3/24/2002 03:53:06 AM #
you understand, i only blog test results i like. so, tell me, which html tag am i?
you're the style tag- you are very dramatic, but when you mess up or overdramatize something, you know it and you change.
via if i.
3/23/2002 05:50:15 PM #
four sites account for fifty percent of all internet time. aortal aims to change this. quote at least once a week, use your site to promote another in the independent web unquote. not that the posted links will stop, but as i want to promote this idea (and this idea) as much as i can, this week, brandy, you're it. you're a constant source of inspiration to me. and i want a picture of my boobs up too.
3/23/2002 11:14:48 AM #
just to explain to joeymichaels and some others. britishness might be a disease, but at least fewer people have it than americanity. and we've got tony as a sort of counter-curse.
3/23/2002 09:12:54 AM #
me link you long time...
piles of paper are a sign of efficiency. i always knew this; i've been disguising my life as a haven of efficiency for years. i think you'll find that piles of books are a sign of genius too.
lots of funny tech guy pages around but this is one of the best i've seen for a while. the very last q&a on the page is my favourite. in fact, pretty much any of the links from bbspot will be good. e.g. why aol would buy red hat.
children waiting for the next harry potter should sooo not click here.
not the usual sort of online test.
3/22/2002 12:00:10 PM #
with thanks to larabie fonts for the blue highway gaunt font, and gertrude stein, t s eliot, john maynard keynes and bell hooks for the words above.
3/22/2002 10:48:05 AM #
my friday five
1. what is your favorite time of year? about now, early spring.
2. what is it about your favorite season that, well, makes it your favorite season? it smells so good. even though in england it seems to get a little colder, the air is crisper and has a bite to it. the light is truer. and as there starts to be more light, i start to feel more sane.
3. what is your least favorite time of year? february. dark, cold, depressing. plus it's been going on for a few months like that and by february i can't stand it much longer. february is the cruellest month. thank goodness it's the shortest!
4. do you do anything to celebrate or recognize the changing of seasons? only stand by all the old excuses for parties, christmas, easter, halloween etc. sadly i've let my invocations to the sun slip a little recently. /sarcasm.
5. what's your favorite thing to do outside? i wonder if everyone has written have sex for this? actually, i think breathing and not getting lungs full of artificial chemical, smelling leaves, rain, soil might be my real favourite.
3/22/2002 05:59:45 AM #
why women are better than men, number whatever. a man attempts to break a world record by having sex with twenty women in a day. the female record? 620 times. that link will also take you to actor john dough, who seems to have already beaten the male target.
what a sacrifice finding the links for this post has been.
3/21/2002 07:45:34 PM #
jasons fried via kottke with a cunning plan. singlefile lets you track via the web the books you own, have lent out, are reading, should be reading, etc etc. it's an intriguing idea, but if you want to deal with more than 25 books you have to pay for it, and mr fried seems to think most people own fewer than 500 books. though there are some reasons to use the service, i'm not sure that a good old fashioned blog, or mysql db, or goddess help us, a combination of the two might not suffice...
3/20/2002 11:23:11 PM #
just a note to everyone who is arriving here looking for the shelters of stone by jean m auel. it is not published in the uk or in the usa until 30th april. i have a copy preordered and will let you have my impressions as soon as possible. if you're preordering yourself, you might consider using one of these links which will earn me pence off my amazon bill. thanks.
3/20/2002 09:50:00 PM #
is this addiction? i wake at 2:30am from a dream that my telephone line has been cut. i'm in a panic. i think, my page is not okay. my page is not okay, the server seems to be unreachable. i sit, hitting refresh in one window and checking my host's service announcements in another. after twenty minutes, my page comes back. i nearly cry with relief. you betcha it's addiction.
in related problems, however, when i try to blog these sad facts, blogger can't access the ftp thing. i must content myself with altering my imood icon to try to reflect the situation. sometimes i'm so sad it scares me.
the telephone line was cut by mutant monkeys with large silver shears. this part is not true. or maybe the monkeys are just hiding.
3/20/2002 03:13:59 AM #
the end of free? no thanks.
3/19/2002 02:31:12 PM #
my eight from the eighties.
1) can you drive 55? shame. i can't drive at all. not legally. so long as i live in london there's no chance of me learning either.
2) do you blister in the sun? hideously. if i'm allowed to sneak off into nineties music, i look like casper without the makeup.
3) are you pretty in pink? i have red hair. do i need to say more?
4) who's your obsession? need I ask myself this? i told robbie williams to stop calling. it was upsetting david duchovny and james marsters. (i like to spread it around, you know.)
5) were you born in a small town? i was born in a city of about half a million people, in fact the fourth largest city in the uk.
6) do you love rock-n-roll? but of course. god gave rock and roll to us.
7) dear god, i hope you get this letter and, i pray... you'll make me thin and rich and sane one day.
8) you just got paid. it's friday night. what are you going to do? get v-e-r-y drunk, i expect.
this is fun. deb is doing it every week. join in!
3/18/2002 09:28:51 PM #
well thank goodness that's over with.
i'm gonna shoo, hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooot, the whole day down...
3/18/2002 08:51:52 PM #
because it yet again came up in the telegraph general knowledge crossword and i yet again could only remember six, here are the seven wonders of the world:
- the great pyramid of giza
- the hanging gardens of babylon
- the statue of zeus at olympia
- the temple of artemis at ephesus
- the mausoleum at helicarnassus
- the colossus at rhodes
- the pharos lighthouse at alexandria
i think it's zeus i always forget.
3/17/2002 11:38:28 PM #
i just scanned myself for viruses. seems amongst other things i have environmentalism, religion, politics, free bsd, linux and british. i may also have prog rock and cars, though for these i entirely blame my husband. via disconnected zeitgeist.
3/17/2002 09:59:41 AM #
i'm nearly halfway through my new (second) knitting project. it's so much fun. what amazes me is that i've just had to undo a small chunk and rather than that putting me right off, as i might have expected, i just went ho-hum and got on with it. most out of character. but i must get on and make the page for it. maybe i'll do that tomorrow.
3/16/2002 06:17:23 PM #
apparently the ban on my buying new books before my to-read pile is down to zero does not extend to secondhand books. oxfam's shop in muswell hill proved a fruitful sorce today. check out the newly elongated waiting to be read list. worthy of particular mention is the private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner, which was mentioned in after you'd gone. i'd never heard of it before but thought it sounded intriguing. then it pops up the next day in a second hand shop. strange.
3/16/2002 04:43:42 PM #
out looking for online versions of the four quartets to link to below. amazingly bartleby doesn't have them. scrolling through tristan's work, i find this, which i scurrilously edit.
if you came this way,
taking any route, starting from anywhere,
at any time or at any season,
it would always be the same: you would have to put off
sense and notion. you are not here to verify,
instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
or carry report. ...
here, the intersection of the timeless moment
is england and nowhere. never and always.
[t.s.eliot, little gidding]
although i dislike what would past times make of modern times as a game (explain how an historical figure from each of your time periods would view the world of san dimas 1988...), i can't help thinking that eliot would have found the philosophical implications of googling intriguing.
3/16/2002 10:54:08 AM #
we shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
[t.s.eliot, little gidding]
3/16/2002 10:47:22 AM #
come on, someone look at my page, i want that counter to hit 500...
3/16/2002 10:21:57 AM #
at last, my friday five.
1. what's your favorite animal? i love all animals, but big cats the most.
2. what pets have you had in your lifetime? i had my cat tabitha for my eleventh birthday. she died three years ago, a very old lady indeed. apart from her, a scottie dog angus, who bit me when i was three and was sent to live with my grandparents. i'm so glad i didn't develop a fear of dogs after that. my brother always had goldfish, to which he used to become emotionally attached, but i could never see the attraction.
3. is there any specific pet that you've wanted but never had? why? horses. chickens. goats. a pack of large dogs. hundreds of semi-feral cats. why? because i live in a first floor flat in north london, not a large country estate.
4. are you allergic to any animals? nope.
5. do you have any 'pet' pet peeves (your pets or others')? people who attempt to control their dogs by abusing them verbally or physically. they usually treat their children in the same way. i can't decide if they're stupid or just lazy. people who don't clear up their dog's crap, obviously. people who say oh he's only playing when he is patently trying to have sex with my leg.
3/15/2002 04:58:28 PM #
i could never understand how mickey mouse could have a friend, goofy, who was a dog, and a pet, pluto, who was also a dog, and they were the same kind of dog. i could cheerfully believe that mice could get married and wear clothes and live in houses. but not that those same mice couldn't figure out the status of dogs in their community.
3/15/2002 10:50:55 AM #
i'm glad i didn't get up early for the friday five this week.
3/15/2002 09:38:05 AM #
ooh deb says my name is awesome! it just never ceases to amaze me that anyone but me reads this.
3/14/2002 09:02:10 AM #
oh dear. muslims won't let american dig up christ. hard to know where the religious right will start its anger at this one. via fortean times.
3/13/2002 11:01:06 PM #
nokia release a phone which runs opera and java applets. in the future, i predict that more people will do what my boss's very intelligent mother did last week, and throw away their phones in favour of paper organisers.
j d salinger's new novel will not be published this year. nice to see him keeping up with the rowlings.
more treasure, which should be left in london so i can go and look at it.
3/13/2002 01:41:16 PM #
and if you need a reason to be clean shaven...
3/12/2002 10:14:23 PM #
great. you have ancient treasure you've managed to save from tomb robbers, antiquities' dealers and indiana jones. and where do you put it for safe-keeping? baghdad.
3/12/2002 04:15:47 PM #
i took the past life test and got these interesting results.
you were male in your last earthly incarnation.
you were born somewhere around the territory of what is now know as modern egypt, approximately in the year 1850.
your profession was: medic, surgeon, herbalist.
a brief psychological profile of you in that past life:
ruthless character, carefully weighing his decisions in critical situations, with excellent self-control and strong will. such people are generally liked, but not always loved.
a lesson that your last past life wishes you to learn in your present life is:
your lesson -- to study, to practice and to use wisdom, enclosed in psychological sciences, and in ancient manuscripts. with strong faith and hard work you will reach your real destiny in present life.
i have no idea what this is based on; i'm guessing it's mathematical to do with the date of your birth as the test has very few questions but produces the same result each time. but i rather like the answer anyway.
3/11/2002 01:51:14 PM #
to divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim: for it would conduce to a juster estimation of actual poetry, good and bad. there are many people who appreciate the expression of sincere emotion in verse, and there is a smaller number of people who can appreciate technical excellence. but very few know when there is expression of significant emotion, emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet. the emotion of art is impersonal. and the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done.
[t.s.eliot, tradition and the individual talent]
this is undesign. it's what i want my pages to look like.
3/11/2002 01:17:24 PM #
some linky dink before i go away, unashamedly stolen from our esteemed hosts. rubik's cube online not only lets you solve a cube in your browser window, it loads it in a couple of seconds too. dribbleglass is very silly. i particularly like the monopoly cards and don't miss six degrees of bacon. the interview with god is not silly, but is a lesson in how to write quick-loading flash. 3/9/2002 08:48:05 AM #
post post post. so the thinking goes like this. i want this page to be xhtml. but i can't have that and the nice coloured scroller. it was okay in the books pages but i think it'll be more noticeable and therefore more upsetting here. so i have to redesign. yummy. i just wish i were like brandy and popped out new designs at the drop of a hat.
3/8/2002 04:39:37 PM #
if you notice this notice... seen in a doctor's waiting room. quote please put toys back in their rightful place unquote. rightful seems to mean correct all of a sudden. still, i rather like the idea of their having a rightful place in a doctor's surgery even in the old meaning.
3/8/2002 03:37:08 PM #
shit, blogger is down for repairs until quote very late tonight unquote. if only i had signed up for paypal, i could have also signed up for blogger pro and written this in notepad and then posted it to the past... but i didn't because paypal sucks. so i'm writing it in notepad at 2:05 PM and we'll just have to see what time i get to post it to the future.
not only that but i'm trying to download a new version of icq and the bloody connection keeps cutting out. you'll know if i ever managed it because if i did, there'll be a little icon there on the left telling you if i'm online or not.
just above that is the rather neat imood icon. this is such fun to play with if you can ignore the errors in their javascript. i'm hoping i'll have emotions that let me use some of the more outlandish icons soon.
3/8/2002 03:34:49 PM #
just in case you didn't, go check out friday five. second place. hurrah. see that hit counter spin. yeah baby. there are cool things about insomnia, and being able to overcome time differences is one of them.
3/8/2002 05:20:57 AM #
my friday five.
1. what makes you homesick? i don't get homesick. not in terms of the nostalgic i-want-my-blankie feeling anyway. if i'm away from home for more than about five days, i start to worry that my computer has been stolen or that the books are flooded or burned, which i suppose is displacement for wanting to be back in my little nest.
2. where is "home" for you? is it where you are living now, or somewhere else (ie: mom & dad's house, particular state/city)? it's my flat now. i mortally offended my mother by referring to cambridge as home when i was at college there, but my parents' house hasn't been home since we left sheffield when i was sixteen. i must have had a wierd time from then until i was eighteen and went to cambridge, because manchester was most definitely not home for me. it always felt like it was a place where i was on holiday. i had no roots there and sixteen is a bad age to try to put some down.
3. what makes it home for you? people? things? my books, of course. definitely things not people. people stop it being home; if we have anyone to stay, it doesn't quite feel like home until they've gone.
4. where is the furthest you've been from home, miles-wise? aswan in egypt; 2579 miles or 4150 kilometres and it's worlds away.
5. what are your plans for this weekend? the girls and i are going to hanbury manor to be pampered. can't wait. will report back sunday.
3/8/2002 05:03:41 AM #
if you're the person who's spent the afternoon looking for a small dragon by brian patten, it's here. i will make this searchable one day. put that on the list. who was looking for courgette and ginger though?
the song that has been stuck in my head for the last three days is blowing in the wind by bob dylan. i've heard this live and believe me it's still as bad as it was in the sixties.
3/6/2002 10:39:37 PM #
ridiculous. attempting to explain my religious baggage in too few words, i describe myself as ex born again. which means?
3/5/2002 10:52:57 PM #
collective nouns are funny. particularly the one for a group of london prostitutes. an anthology of english pros.
3/5/2002 10:24:54 PM #
i might be wrong about this, but i thought that william shakespeare had no great-grandchildren. so how can a direct descendent be getting married at hall's croft?
3/5/2002 12:16:03 AM #
hmm. if a book is two years old it must have been written maybe three years ago. how come i have xml stuff that old that is talking about not implemented yet, and it's still not implemented? feeble. but this is a good how-to.
so. today's experiments in xml reveal that we're back to the good old days. it works just luvverly in ie6. and in nn6 it dies a horrible horrible death. great.
3/4/2002 11:20:16 PM #
more knitting. for those totally uninterested, hear ye that knitting will be moving to its own little section very shortly. sadly as normal i am trying to do more than one thing at once, so this new section is being written in xml and there are a few things that are not working like i expect them to. hence i have to read the very thick wrox book before this actually goes public.
i've bought rowan's new magazine and have fallen totally in heart with kim hargreaves' designs. they're just what i need right now, simple, quick and very wearable. also with rowan's yarns. they make my fingers itch to touch them. so hello to the nice ladies in the haberdashery section of john lewis in brent cross from whom i bought this which is really this color and this
3/3/2002 01:06:44 PM #
so i'm sitting here thinking that this sweater is a piece of particularly straight-forward cake. i might not have knitted anything for ten years but it's like riding a bike. mm-hm yeah this is great. then i get to sew the damn thing together and just joining three raglan seams takes me as long as knitting the rest of the sweater. i'm sewing and undoing and not getting the right sides together and actually joining the sleeves to one another at some point. i remember now how much i hate this part. still, the collar is done now. one raglan, two side seams, two sleeve seams to go. will try to post a picture tomorrow. if i have it sewn up.
3/3/2002 12:13:45 AM #
yay. did it. the books pages now validate xhtml. if anyone's wondering about thecounter's code, all you need to do is move their third little script into an external js file. the cdata thing doesn't seem to work with ie6, which is probably something to do with xml parsing but dog knows what.
3/2/2002 01:26:29 PM #
good grief. i just got a huge bit of html spam (the worst kind) which is a list of online tests. what next? it can only be a matter of time before some lonely blogger pays their ninety nine dollars for a million email addresses. it's the world gone mad.
3/2/2002 11:39:39 AM #
my friday five
1. what's your favorite vacation spot? seatown in dorset.
2. where do you consider to be the biggest hell-hole on earth? cairo, egypt. in general. but specifically october 1995 at the end of our honeymoon, in the hottest october in egypt for a zillion years. heat and pollution is a hideous combination. especially when you add unstoppable perfume salesmen into the mix.
3. what would be your dream vacation? a huge trip around the middle east, to petra and st catharine's monastery as well as the bits of egypt that i've missed, and the bits that i've already been to. with our own driver, being able to poke around tombs on our own.
4. if you could go on a road-trip with anyone, who would it be and why? b, because he'd do all the driving. and he likes listening to story tapes in the car too. i want to take the bbc version of lord of the rings that we've got on a really long journey so we can listen to it without interruption.
5. what are your plans for this weekend? make everything validate xhtml strict. drink wine. see gosford park, or maybe the mothman prophecies. sew up my sweater which is finished. sleep big time.
3/1/2002 10:43:32 AM #
if anybody has got thecounter.com's code to both work and validate, can they please let me know. i've put the script in cdata tags which validates but gives javascript errors. so i commented out the tags and that just makes the page stop loading when it hits the first comment tag. grr.
3/1/2002 12:22:02 AM #
