Back to Performancing?

Today my company will be presenting the management system we’ve been working for on the the past few weeks, to my church. I’ve decided to put the matter entirely in God’s hands. So this afternoon, let the best decision be made. Whatever it may be.

My inbuilt thrift-o-meter kicked in, and I decided NOT to buy most of the books on my list this morning. When I flipped through the web design book, I didn’t think I really needed the new edition. Besides, why buy it for the extra chapter on XML when I could just buy a book on…

Thanks to Kristen, who granted me one of my geek wishes by getting me a Gmail account! I’d shout “Yahoo!” except that it would be entirely inappropriate 🙂

Disturbing politics. Today I touched on material that was certainly not relaxing. I continued reading Guardian journalist Greg Palast‘s book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [rated 4.6 out of 5 stars with 74 votes so far], and was both disturbed and enlightened – probably because I didn’t expect crooked politicians to be even more…

The upholder of Web Standards is also a champion of web designer rights. And I thought I was the only one suffering from dealings with people who don’t know how to work a browser properly.

So, my laptop’s died. I have finally come to terms with the fact that it no longer is able to run Windows, and hangs at exactly 31% during ScanDisk in DOS, refusing to continue. It cites a long filename to be the problem, and proceeds to hang. Obviously if Scandisk was run in Windows there…