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Work news, Gaming and Heresy, East Timor coup, Weird Sex
Over the past few days work has been intense on lots of different levels. For starters, I have established a partnership with Create My Website where I pitch PHP/SQL web development to them and I help them with compliance standards. Then there's been a days serious research on a common sysadmin problem with a seriously workable application idea that could make life a lot easier for a lot of people. Three people - programmers - are seriously interested and a meeting today confirmed the technical and financial plausibility. I've also learned how very cool Ghost 8.0 Professional Edition is, especially compared to Ghost 9.0 and Ghost 2003 and how annoying IBM Think Pad notebooks can be. My classic IT glitch of the week was locking myself out of Samba after setting up an internal webserver for PHP scripting and setting up webserver level security settings.
Finished my review of Hero Wars. Some great ideas, some terrible execution. Next will be a review of Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventures game which I picked up on special (one of the books is even signed by the great Gygax himself). I've also put up the initial call-for-players for a new campaign an Outbreak of Heresy, and completed a Scene 9, part B description for the Ten Thousand Islands play-by-email.
Most pleasant events of the week included dinner with Frans and Anitra with surpise dining guests Gin and Nina from East Timor, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
severina_242 engaging on a massive repair job on my unmanageable hair. Speaking of East Timor, the Catholic Church has just forced the government to introduce compulsory religious education, and make abortions and voluntary prostitution criminal offenses. Well, freedom there didn't last there very long, did it?
Same as it ever was.Sexual hypocrisy and serious weirdness among the conservative right.
Finished my review of Hero Wars. Some great ideas, some terrible execution. Next will be a review of Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventures game which I picked up on special (one of the books is even signed by the great Gygax himself). I've also put up the initial call-for-players for a new campaign an Outbreak of Heresy, and completed a Scene 9, part B description for the Ten Thousand Islands play-by-email.
Most pleasant events of the week included dinner with Frans and Anitra with surpise dining guests Gin and Nina from East Timor, and
severina_242 engaging on a massive repair job on my unmanageable hair. Speaking of East Timor, the Catholic Church has just forced the government to introduce compulsory religious education, and make abortions and voluntary prostitution criminal offenses. Well, freedom there didn't last there very long, did it? Same as it ever was.Sexual hypocrisy and serious weirdness among the conservative right.
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These days my tendency is just to crush most website issues with the 10 ton truck of a heavyweight content management system like Plone, and subdue all remaining resistance with lots of CSS.
Good point. That would work nicely in all situations.
Pity its not so easy to convince clients that they don't need the graphical prettiness that the tables/imageready/javascript school of web design provides (at a terrible cost).
I've found that a method is get them to agree that they want a compliant website, they want accessibility, they want it load fast etc and then say "well, it will have to be light on the graphics" and "you'll need text-based redundant options" etc. That way they learn how the system works at the same time.
You know what people are like. They just don't realise that a 1 meg attachment (consisting of a single page of text and an embedded picture embedded in MS-Word) is the equivalent of 100 pages of plain-vanilla text... It has to be shown to them.
But yes, I think I'll get on just fine with the createmywebsite folk.