lördag, april 30, 2005

Programmers glandular experience

Friday I spent most of my day doing something I haven't done in a good five years or longer. I hand-hacked HTML in Notepad. The reason was work-related and license driven, but nonetheless it was a weird experience bordering on time travel.

Without a wysiwyg editor (or a web based blog tool for that matter) little issues became real again. The table and its intricate tags! the proper use of image and border and a href! does it matter if a hard line break preceeds a br tag or not! which browsers support what tags and does this font work on a mac or not!

As the alert reader has already figured out, its been quite a while since I did any presentation scripting of any kind, but the experience triggered something deep inside of me that has not been moving for years - the code gland.

The sheer joy of building a page out of simple blocks, tables and image tags, and dropping it on a server to see the result in a browser - ah, it's been far too long since.

I think I´ll even pick up the old guitar this weekend, just to enjoy something I once used to live for...

Saturday morning and I'm just about awake Posted by Hello

torsdag, april 28, 2005

Morning Coffee

This morning my barista proposed I'd take a cappuco instead of my usual macchiato.
Too tired to resist I agreed.

It tilted my entire routine.

When it was time for my second cup I switched back to the usual macchiato, but it was too late. I was filled in an uncomfortable way with way too much milk.

Won't make that mistake again.

Ahh, it's good to get old and stable in one's routines...

onsdag, april 27, 2005


Old, fat, guy.  Posted by Hello