1. Await response from University of Bristol Registrar re: My transcripts. And pray it doesn’t cost a bomb to send them off. 2. Thank the kind people who’ve agreed to write recommendation letters, again, in my heart. 3. Sit down and write the damn entrance essays. Write write write!! 4. Tidy up my old law …
Month: October 2002
Planes in towers. Bombs in Bali. Sniper(s) in Washington. Gunman in Melbourne. Human bombs in Palestine. War pending against Iraq, and a nuclear weapon pileup. Not to mention the usual famines, natural disasters, global warming and diseases. Is this the Start of the Breakdown? [Sorry, I couldn’t resist using a couple of TFF song titles, …
Another shocker. Read it at CNN, or at The Australian.
There was some hullabaloo this morning after I returned from church. My dad had, for the first time in his life, purchased serious software online. To be precise, it was an antivirus and firewall package he was trying to upgrade to, and somehow the installation screwed up, rendering his computer useless, making him grumpy and …
Remember the traffic woes I had recently while trying to drive out of the house? The Traffic Police just sent me a reply to my complaint letter, saying: 1) there will be zig-zag (NO STOPPING NO PARKING) lines on our side of the road 2) a car park for Chinese Embassy visitors has been built …
Well, they’re ALMOST there. To all the web designers who don’t think they need to adopt the standards set out by the World Wide Web Consortium, think again. K10K managed to do it, and their website is much more complex (and pretty) than anything else on the web. If they can do it, so should …
Finally, my browser gets a Service Pack which fixes, among other things, the CSS display problems some of us designers have been complaining about. This is what Microsoft had to say about it: “Internet Explorer 6 SP1 offers a feature-rich platform for building Web-based applications and developing informative content for users. It provides full support …
It’s so fitting that one of our hottest technology and culture magazines has revamped its website to comply with web standards. Code readers may note that they also have a stylesheet for disabled users. Netscape 4 users will be asked to upgrade their non-compliant browsers. All thanks to CSS.
I’ve finally got my first work of art featured on another website – and an Italian one, at that. However, my anti-war wallpaper seems to have been relocated or removed – so if anybody wants to see it, let me know and I’ll email it to you. What would you call kind of work? Webtivism?
Oh, belated joy. I completely missed the reply from USC Annenberg in my daily barrage of emails, and received some potentially good news: 1) I don’t have to take TOEFL, but may need to take a test once my admission is confirmed. 2) As for GRE, they only look at verbal and quantitative scores, which …