who thought these standards up?
If you're going out on a date, you want to impress someone, it's a dog eat dog world, not a doggy-dog world.
One year ago: Darin and I drive to San Jose for a week in the northland. Two years ago: I hold a graduation party. Three years ago: I fool a small girl into eating her dinner. She still believes there are dinosaurs in our backyard. Today's news question:
Who just endorsed George W. Bush for President? And what had to change hands for that to happen?
(Don't send me your answers. This is just a little way to expand your horizons. Honest.)
We've started packing up all of Sophia's newborn clothes. She started growing out of them quickly--she's way too big for them now.
My little girl's growing up.
Now that she's older, perhaps she can learn the concept of not squawking loudly through Sports Night and Buffy, both dialogue-intensive shows.
Have I mentioned that Sophia smiles all the time now? For about the past two weeks she's become a smiling monster. I won't say that smiling makes it all worthwhile--if you need smiles to make raising a baby worthwhile, you have a hard row to hoe--but it's a pretty good development.
So, I sat down today and hashed out a new design for the journal. I'm not the world's best webpage designer: so shoot me. I got my nascent design to the point where I thought, Yeah, this is okay. Not great, not stunning, but serviceable.
Then I opened it in Netscape 4.7.
Jesus H. Christ.
No wonder web designers make a lot of money.
The page looked, to be absolutely, totally, non-self-deprecating, like total shit.
Mind you, I didn't make a tricky design. I don't have a difficult design. A big table, some background colors, fonts chosen. I specified the width of the table and the widths of individual columns. I did my best, honest.
I don't know how people get their pages to look the same in IE and Netscape. I don't even want to contemplate what my pages must look like in the PC-versions of those apps. And since we have no Windows-running PCs around (Linux-only), I guess I'll never know!
For some reason I can't read Lucy's page anymore. I get to her index page just fine, but when I click on one of the entries, I get stuck in some kind of infinite loop, freezing up my whole system (not just my browser).
When I told her about this problem, she said I'm the only person who's reported a problem with her page. Harrumph.
The answer to Sunday's question: The Michigan state lottery reached a record level, approaching $366m. Needless to say, many Americans--at least those who haven't started a dot-com company or appeared on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--want in on this nonsense, thereby proving, once again, that statistics is woefully undertaught in our schools.
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