Where I’m @

20010228

I'm about 50 percent done now with restructuring my pages to not use tables at all. They're already XHTML Transitional-validated, with certain exceptions, and this just puts me a step closer to XHTML Strict. And a step closer to modularized XHTML; I want to have the pages conform to the modularized spec so that I can begin to work with them on wireless devices. Tomorrow wireless, next week the fridge!

Hard to believe it's been over a week since I last Blogged. Ash Wednesday it is today. However, I don't see the sooty ones this year like last year or the year before, since I now work 1/2 block from the Javits Center whereas back then I worked scant blocks from St. Patrick's on Fifth Avenue. Not many parishoners getting the forehead markings at the Javits. Though I do understand that there are High Holiday services there. (Sorry—shifting religions there.)

Since I am giving blogtime to St. Pat's, I should prefer to have you visit ARA, NARAL, Planned Parenhood, and ILGO. (Though at ILGO, don't believe the link about the new site. It is no longer an ILGO site at the destination.)

20010220

Depressing. I get an email from my aunt that my mother has prepared her parents for their impending visit by telling them that she can no longer do much for herself. ALS sucks. If you want to get a picture for the progress, check out one man's diary.

20010216

Sweet jaysus! and again.

20010215

Darn it all, Zeldman's site says he'll see us on the 15th, but is he there? Nooooooo.

Just for kicks, I looked for sites similar to the spelling of Zeldman.com {am I obsessing? it's just because I'm on tenterhooks} and zellman.com is the most interesting. Has Zeldman done this? I promise to stop obsessing about Zeldman. I am not a stalker.

Definitely looking forward to Internet World Wireless. Since my office is a block (less, probably) from New York's Javits Center, I've been trying to go to all the boondoggles {excuse me, expositions} I can. Lotsa groovy free stuff, but Adbusters would be (properly) appalled by the mindshare-grubbing going on.

20010214

Was just sent information about a man's cross-country ride to raise money for research on Amyotrphic Lateral Sclerosis, a/k/a Lou Gehrig's Disease (or Motor Neurone Disease or Maladie de Charcot, and that's all the variations I know). As my mom has ALS, I am particularly interested in passing along the info. A Ride with a Reason

It's that day again, and working in an all-male office (whether it's all-man, and just what that implies anyway, is up for debate) makes for interesting banter. One guy jokingly said he hadn't gotten his wife anything and would get her a UNIX book. Least, I think he was joking. It's a nice dinner at home with the SO for me, so I can't complain.

I'm feeling link insufficiency, here. I'm an adult, though, so I'm not going to worry about the fact that other blogs have links a-plenty. (see also Harrumph)

20010212

As Stimpy said, I can hardly contain myself. Just what did Zeldman announce this morning at Web Design 2ohoh1?

20010211

Jeepers. Went to a brunch today and two of my friends are pregnant and one acquaintance. (Does that sentence have any resemblance to standard grammar?) First the weddings, then this. Maybe the old childhood rhyme is true.

20010210

Another store in the neighborhood closed and is for rent. The Smith Street monster continues to expand, possibly through the sewer pipes or something. I'm sure we'll get another restaurant or, ooh, mayhap a boutique. The store that closed was a framing shop. Seems to me that that's the sort of merchant that makes a community, especially one close to an artist's area (not that that isn't dwindling like the snow on the sidewalks).

A gorgeous, if windy, day in Brooklyn, USA. Spent the first Friday night without my SO in a long time. Nothing tragic, just she had to be away to be somewhere early today. Pretty wierd, though I have spent many nights away without her. Sort of an emotional agoraphobia, in a sense.

Listening to the WKCR weekend country music festival. Always a pleasure to listen to 'KCR special broadcasts.

Support jazz radio in the US, support WBGO.

20010209

Well, as usual, I am one of the last to climb aboard this CMS blog ship, and lo and behold it appears to be taking on water. I won't say sinking, because I don't think it is (cognitive dissonance being what it is and all), and because it won't if we all keep bailing as fast as we can. [That's the old sense of bail.] See links at left for old blog stuff. Predating CMS by Blogger.