15 May 2004
So all week I had today in my diary as the day I’d finally get rid of that bloody cable I keep tripping on, which travels out the door of the Place I Sleep (that is, “bed”room) to the Place I Live (that is, computer desk) providing access to a Place I Go Often (that is, the Internet). Earlier this week (Tuesday, from memory), I’d dutifully visited a Place That Sells Stuff (that is, Jaycar) and purchased some things that attach to walls and have sockets in them.
The intent, of course, was to move the cable out from my room to somewhere more directly adjacent to the ‘phone and data services in this strange place. Which was fine. And good. And comparably well planned, as far as my doing of these things goes.
My (fathers) drillbits, however, seem to have become something of a scarce commodity around here. As have various holesaw attachments, which complicates the whole affair somewhat – trying to get cables to go through holes into/out of the floor into wall cavities and then out of/into another hole in aforementioned wall is fun at the best of times, but when you’re drilling in a floorspace with a 1/5” bit and trying to fit some Cat5 through that, and magically align with another hole made with a bit the same size in the wall above you, things get… interesting.
Insert expletives here… the cable nightmare continues, at least for another few weeks until either
a) the drillbits are found, or
b) I do something completely irrational, and go out and buy some more out of impatience – of course, the missing bits (hehe… there was about thirty of them in various sets, plus a holesaw attachment) will instantaneously show up the moment I buy the drillbits, but hey – then there’d be forty. I’m unsure whether or not that would be a good thing…
13 May 2004
Well, I just finished up the latest batch of assessment tasks, and amid my procrastination last night (against a maths assessment today, which went suprisingly well, I think – of course, thinking that BEFORE getting marks back is suicide, but hey) came a compulsive desire to design a website.
And here it is.
For more on exactly how, why, and how long, take a look at the about page. Let’s just say that my coding self-esteem is pretty good at the minute. Heh… until, of course, the bugs reports start rolling in;) No, that won’t happen as much, I don’t think… this particular CMS has been in use in miscellaneous other places in various forms for several months now, and more recently, in a more complete, polished form, on the Platform Seven website.
We shall see exactly what happens with this in the next few days… I have a weekend without any assessments!!! This is incredible!!! I have a life again… well, I have free time again… the life is somewhat more optional.
13 May 2004
You’ll note, if you happen to be unfortunate enough to be trying to view this webpage in any web browser other than something based on the Mozilla rendering engine, that the menubar accross the top sucks.
I just thought I’d point this out, and laugh at you. ;)
The joys of running a personal website, not subject to review… I’m fairly sure it’s still standards compliant, though – the CMS I’ve developed will basically make me comply with standards… I have no real choice in that matter. Of course, having said that, I haven’t actually *tested* this for compliance yet, so I’m liable to being ripped up and reduced to a quivering heap when I actually *do* try to validate it sometime. We shall see.
Oh, and I will fix it sometime. I just can’t be bothered right now, considering it looks so nice from where I’m sitting ;)