*sigh*
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Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
I could've very well skipped today's Monday's post as well. As a matter of fact, I was going to, too. I'm here though. I don't even know why.
1. I think I've become too lazy to do anyfuckingthing.
2. I've been planning to do some watercolour painting past two days. I just can't get myself to do it.
3. I decided to draw at least one sketch/drawing/painting/whatever starting October 1st, but I'm not able to do it. Lack of inspiration+interest.
4. Too much boredom does that I guess.
5. I found a place near my home which sells extra large burgers. It is almost double of the McD one. And is 100 times tastier. o.O (Oh, it was almost comparable to the Karachi Bakery one) :\
6. BTW, I drew The Beatles' poster on Friday.
1. I think I've become too lazy to do anyfuckingthing.
2. I've been planning to do some watercolour painting past two days. I just can't get myself to do it.
3. I decided to draw at least one sketch/drawing/painting/whatever starting October 1st, but I'm not able to do it. Lack of inspiration+interest.
4. Too much boredom does that I guess.
5. I found a place near my home which sells extra large burgers. It is almost double of the McD one. And is 100 times tastier. o.O (Oh, it was almost comparable to the Karachi Bakery one) :\
6. BTW, I drew The Beatles' poster on Friday.
7. I know it's pretty sucky, and all four of them look weird, but errm, I never said I was great with portraits. :/
8. The helium balloon with screen on it, used in the CWG 2010 opening was a nice surprise. :)
9. Somebody pleaaaaase make me wake up early. I want to learn how to drive properly before I forget whatever li'l I know. :\
10. I kind of tidied up my room today. And made my stuffed monkey hug my stuffed teddy bear. :D
11. Yes, I lurrrrrve stuffed toys and wish I had more of them. Really, five is not enough. :(
12. And I BADLY want to go somewhere for a vacation and click lots of photographs. Apparently, I'm over the whole lotta photographs I clicked at the zoo. :/
13. Don't you just hate it when stupid Hindi songs get stuck in your head and you can't stop singing it however much you try to?
14. I've been getting a lot of 'What will people do after I die' kind of thoughts lately. Errm.
15. I finished watching 24 season 1 and can't stop wondering whether the whole series is really about 8 days in life of Jack Bauer. 192 episodes! :\
16. And oh, I'm wishing for getting a car on my birthday. I know that's too much to expect. Can't help wishing though. :P
17. And I really really really want a life-size teddy bear. :\
18. How contradictory are the above two wishes? :|
19. Sometimes I wish I could just stop living till June and then come back when everything's in place again.
20. Awww! My monkey and teddy bear look shooo cute together! :D
21. When you've been crazy depressed for so long, you can find happiness in every stupid li'l thing in life.
22. And some people just don't get sarcasm. I love those species. :)
23. When people say that 'you've changed', what exactly do they mean? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
24. I feel so alienated in this place now. It feels like that I know only my mum and dad in the whole city.
25. Thinking is bad for health. Especially if the thoughts are generated from my brain. :)
I think I should just go and sleep now.
Bye bye,
Good night. :)
Not much has happened lately.
The economy is in a slump (South Africa seems to be trailing behind the rest of the world in that respect, too) and business has been very slow lately. I'm taking the opportunity to redo my company website which has been getting rather stale and dusty, and this time I'm doing it properly, based on my own framework, and using CSS for layout rather than tables. In the process of which I discovered that while using tables is not really advisable anymore in 2010, using CSS instead (as God intended, according to some)sucks balls has some severe limitations. For example, something as elementary as making a multi-column layout in which each column has its own background image is a major pain - the damn things just won't line up at the bottom no matter what. CSS (CSS2, at least) just cannot do it! The best work-around so far seems to be using a single background image for multiple columns (which is a pain and somewhat inelegant) or using Javascript and the DOM to modify element properties on the fly upon completion of page loading (which is majorly inelegant).
Spring is slowly coming closer, and the tree in my neighbours' garden is in bloom while the birds are getting more active and start thinking about nests and such. It's still pretty chilly but the worst of the cold is over. I'm making plans for my herb garden, and I'll be starting the seeding trays for it this week. But my experiments with leek, cabbages and broccoli during the winter have clearly shown that the soil needs a lot of work; as it is now it is much too poor. A load of manure would be good (the country is full of it, after all) but it's about three feet from my bedroom window, so I might want to think a bit more about that. :_)
South African politics are still the same - an ugly little fight over power and money among politicans and their cronies - a bunch of ego-maniacal opportunists who are only interested in helping themselves to whatever they want. Did I just repeat myself?
Update: The idea behind using CSS for layout was to have a good look at mobile compliance. With more mobile devices than computers on the planet, ignoring mobile users is something that one just can no longer afford. And catering to the screen sizes of mobile devices is nearly impossible with tables - what's needed here is a separate style sheet that hides some elements, uses custom sizes for others, and does not tie one into a layout that has been fixed for all eternity by tables hardcoded in HTML.
Unfortunately, while the mobile market is booming, support for mobile devices is a complete pig's breakfast at this time. Every device manufacturer does things differently. Some ignore major aspects of CSS, others do a fandango on tables, and screen sizes can be just about anything. The web was never intended as a place where absolute positioning could work, or where assumptions about the client device could be trusted, but right now the only solution that really works seems to be a separate design and implementation for each and every make and model of handheld device, which is of course impossible. Not to mention that some wireless providers run content through a proxy that strips out selected portions of whatever HTML and CSS you use, which makes it even more of a crapshoot.
And that's pretty much it at the moment, really...
The economy is in a slump (South Africa seems to be trailing behind the rest of the world in that respect, too) and business has been very slow lately. I'm taking the opportunity to redo my company website which has been getting rather stale and dusty, and this time I'm doing it properly, based on my own framework, and using CSS for layout rather than tables. In the process of which I discovered that while using tables is not really advisable anymore in 2010, using CSS instead (as God intended, according to some)
Spring is slowly coming closer, and the tree in my neighbours' garden is in bloom while the birds are getting more active and start thinking about nests and such. It's still pretty chilly but the worst of the cold is over. I'm making plans for my herb garden, and I'll be starting the seeding trays for it this week. But my experiments with leek, cabbages and broccoli during the winter have clearly shown that the soil needs a lot of work; as it is now it is much too poor. A load of manure would be good (the country is full of it, after all) but it's about three feet from my bedroom window, so I might want to think a bit more about that. :_)
South African politics are still the same - an ugly little fight over power and money among politicans and their cronies - a bunch of ego-maniacal opportunists who are only interested in helping themselves to whatever they want. Did I just repeat myself?
Update: The idea behind using CSS for layout was to have a good look at mobile compliance. With more mobile devices than computers on the planet, ignoring mobile users is something that one just can no longer afford. And catering to the screen sizes of mobile devices is nearly impossible with tables - what's needed here is a separate style sheet that hides some elements, uses custom sizes for others, and does not tie one into a layout that has been fixed for all eternity by tables hardcoded in HTML.
Unfortunately, while the mobile market is booming, support for mobile devices is a complete pig's breakfast at this time. Every device manufacturer does things differently. Some ignore major aspects of CSS, others do a fandango on tables, and screen sizes can be just about anything. The web was never intended as a place where absolute positioning could work, or where assumptions about the client device could be trusted, but right now the only solution that really works seems to be a separate design and implementation for each and every make and model of handheld device, which is of course impossible. Not to mention that some wireless providers run content through a proxy that strips out selected portions of whatever HTML and CSS you use, which makes it even more of a crapshoot.
And that's pretty much it at the moment, really...
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