Back When 8MB Was "Huge" 1998

Had a frustrating experience voting - two polling stations, both at schools, directly across the street from each other. Lisa graciously drove me and then dropped me off at work. The first place we went had very poor signage, so we wandered a while before discovering the actual polling station and then it turned out to be Lisa's but not mine, so I had to trek back to the other school. I'm afraid I was a bit cranky.

Pretty good day at work. Tiring, but good, and I got to leave a bit early AND I got a ride home. Yay! Thanks, Clemens!

My advisor, the unsinkable Linda Main, says I just need to discuss my literature review more thoroughly and cite more sources to back up my claim that there is a need for documentation in web design and then I'll be pretty much done except for the formatting of my documents. I've got a bag of great quotes, so now I just have to string them together. (Mental image of popcorn and cranberries). This is a relief. The end of my degree is in my sights.

My proposal for the use of the /meta/ folder to hold design documentation has been put on the list of additions to "A Standard for Site Organization" put forward by Greg Knauss. Cool.

Downloaded the huge (8 megs) crass Dutch ad. Laughed really hard. Catchy tune...

Finished The Flanders Panel. Slightly traumatized, but well-satisfied. And still highly recommended.

Forgot to mention it at the time, but I created the illustration for a tattoo now gracing the bicep of manly man, Joseph Hansen. It looks like this:

and Joe says: "The glyph is an ideograph which means 'strength' or 'power', but if you look at it with western print in mind, you might see a combined 'j' and 'h', which would be my initials. (And for those of you who didn't believe that my piercing didn't hurt, this didn't hurt either. Nyah nyah nyah. And because it was also cheap, I think there will be more!) (getting in touch with my inner something or other) -joe".
Hmm, maybe a little checkerboard ball? But where?

Feeling a bit less stressed, I made some requested rearrangements to my report and picked quotes I want to use in my literature review section. Now it's dinner time. Mmm, fish. Oreo Dory from Trader Joe's - just defrost it, bread it with cracker crumbs and fry it in a lil bit o' butter until the crackers are dark brown. Delicious with Near East Creative Grains Roasted Pecan & Garlic.

WOW!!! The election reporting available from the California Secretary of State's office is great! Why vote for Bill Jones? Because his office understands the web. (Note: the main tool is a Java applet and I had better luck with the smaller format). [And it's pretty damn cool that the link still works in January of 2004 as I add these old pre-Blogger posts into Typepad]

I was going to try writing tonight, but my wrists are just too sore. "Stop NOW!" says my conscience, who sounds remarkably like Eric Uhrhane...

Hmmm, maybe this election report tool ain't so cool. I don't think it's updating automagically. Of course, I'd not be surprised if the servers were too overloaded to keep up. Then again, it's a lot better than waiting for what I'm interested in to come around on the t.v.!

Ok, I reloaded it and now it's working correctly. Just scrolling by like the t.v. reports, but it's only the races I'm interested in and it updates every 5 minutes. Yes, this is a neat thing.

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Back When 8MB Was "Huge"

Had a frustrating experience voting - two polling stations, both at schools, directly across the street from each other. Lisa graciously drove me and then dropped me off at work. The first place we went had very poor signage, so we wandered a while before discovering the actual polling station and then it turned out to be Lisa's but not mine, so I had to trek back to the other school. I'm afraid I was a bit cranky.

Pretty good day at work. Tiring, but good, and I got to leave a bit early AND I got a ride home. Yay! Thanks, Clemens!

My advisor, the unsinkable Linda Main, says I just need to discuss my literature review more thoroughly and cite more sources to back up my claim that there is a need for documentation in web design and then I'll be pretty much done except for the formatting of my documents. I've got a bag of great quotes, so now I just have to string them together. (Mental image of popcorn and cranberries). This is a relief. The end of my degree is in my sights.

My proposal for the use of the /meta/ folder to hold design documentation has been put on the list of additions to "A Standard for Site Organization" put forward by Greg Knauss. Cool.

Downloaded the huge (8 megs) crass Dutch ad. Laughed really hard. Catchy tune...

Finished The Flanders Panel. Slightly traumatized, but well-satisfied. And still highly recommended.

Forgot to mention it at the time, but I created the illustration for a tattoo now gracing the bicep of manly man, Joseph Hansen. It looks like this:

and Joe says: "The glyph is an ideograph which means 'strength' or 'power', but if you look at it with western print in mind, you might see a combined 'j' and 'h', which would be my initials. (And for those of you who didn't believe that my piercing didn't hurt, this didn't hurt either. Nyah nyah nyah. And because it was also cheap, I think there will be more!) (getting in touch with my inner something or other) -joe".
Hmm, maybe a little checkerboard ball? But where?

Feeling a bit less stressed, I made some requested rearrangements to my report and picked quotes I want to use in my literature review section. Now it's dinner time. Mmm, fish. Oreo Dory from Trader Joe's - just defrost it, bread it with cracker crumbs and fry it in a lil bit o' butter until the crackers are dark brown. Delicious with Near East Creative Grains Roasted Pecan & Garlic.

WOW!!! The election reporting available from the California Secretary of State's office is great! Why vote for Bill Jones? Because his office understands the web. (Note: the main tool is a Java applet and I had better luck with the smaller format). [And it's pretty damn cool that the link still works in January of 2004 as I add these old pre-Blogger posts into Typepad]

I was going to try writing tonight, but my wrists are just too sore. "Stop NOW!" says my conscience, who sounds remarkably like Eric Uhrhane...

Hmmm, maybe this election report tool ain't so cool. I don't think it's updating automagically. Of course, I'd not be surprised if the servers were too overloaded to keep up. Then again, it's a lot better than waiting for what I'm interested in to come around on the t.v.!

Ok, I reloaded it and now it's working correctly. Just scrolling by like the t.v. reports, but it's only the races I'm interested in and it updates every 5 minutes. Yes, this is a neat thing.