(sometimes i feel so) uninspired
i am: present and accounted for
listening to: the sound my keyboard makes when i'm typing on it
drinking: raspberry cranberry juice
today i'm one big step closer to being able to return to my manuscript project. i still have a lot of testing to do on my redesign, but today i finally finished the recoding (as long as i don't discover another group of pages i missed, that is.) i must say one more time, for anyone who may have missed the fact, that i absolutely abhor IE. IE7 is a vast improvement over earlier versions, but it sucks that a sizable portion of my visitors still arrive via IE5, 5.5. and 6. i can only assume they're teachers or students in school systems where the system administrators can't be bothered to upgrade.
i did finally give up and put a disclaimer on the "site info" page - which reads: [Due to insufficient standards support in older versions of Internet Explorer's XML parser, IE versions lower than 6.0 will display an error message in the Status Bar. Microsoft recommends that users of IE upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 for both critical security updates and Web standards compliance.] - today, just because, yes i'm aware there's a little yellow triangle showing up in the status bar in 5.0 and 5.5. i can't help it! those flavors of IE don't like the w3 doctype statement that's required for validation in every other browser in the world. grrrrr.
oh, ugh. i'll hush about that.
i finished shaman's crossing by robin hobb today. i'm torn as to whether or not i want to continue with the series, for several reasons. first, i was a little disappointed. it was very slow in places, extremely repetitive in others, and even though i finally settled into her world i never was completely comfortable in it. i never did get a good grasp of the type of magic that was being worked on and through the main character. on the other hand, the characters and storyline(s) were as finely crafted as those in the realm of the elderlings series, which i love. i'll decide tomorrow, rhett, as i'll be just around the corner from barnes & noble. on the other hand, i have a brand new copy of the world according to garp, which needs to be broken in, the eye of the world by robert jordan (which i'm almost afraid to start reading, because i have a feeling i'll get sucked into that series in a big way), and umm .. yeah, the name of the rose by umberto eco, stacked up on my bedside table. i also told a friend that i'd reread the liveship traders trilogy, by robin hobb, with her as soon as she finishes rereading assassin's quest, which will probably be sometime in the next two weeks.
it's finally fall, even the leaves have started changing a bit. fall always brings jeff wayne's musical version of "the war of the worlds" to mind (usually inducing several earworms to spring to life, as well) not because of the song "forever autumn," but because it was the fall and winter of 1978 that i listened to it repeatedly. i loved it so much that i had it on vinyl, 8-track and cassette. now i have it on cd, and i break it out and listen for a few days every fall. but oh how i'd love to see the stage version that's making the rounds in the uk. (what a fantasy that is lol.) still, to be in the uk and see jeff wayne conducting and justin hayward singing live? what a trip that would be. found a video of part of the performance on youtube (of course), and it's amazing to me. so many people, all in sync creating this wonderful piece of music that has been so firmly ensconced in my life for almost 30 years.
and of course i have to embed it here so i can come back and watch ... and dream.
wow, i have typed a lot and said very little. snip, snip.
today's reading: i'll probably retreat into the comfort and wonder of garp tonight and make a decision tomorrow about whether to read it straight through, or start something new.
listening to: the sound my keyboard makes when i'm typing on it
drinking: raspberry cranberry juice
today i'm one big step closer to being able to return to my manuscript project. i still have a lot of testing to do on my redesign, but today i finally finished the recoding (as long as i don't discover another group of pages i missed, that is.) i must say one more time, for anyone who may have missed the fact, that i absolutely abhor IE. IE7 is a vast improvement over earlier versions, but it sucks that a sizable portion of my visitors still arrive via IE5, 5.5. and 6. i can only assume they're teachers or students in school systems where the system administrators can't be bothered to upgrade.
i did finally give up and put a disclaimer on the "site info" page - which reads: [Due to insufficient standards support in older versions of Internet Explorer's XML parser, IE versions lower than 6.0 will display an error message in the Status Bar. Microsoft recommends that users of IE upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 for both critical security updates and Web standards compliance.] - today, just because, yes i'm aware there's a little yellow triangle showing up in the status bar in 5.0 and 5.5. i can't help it! those flavors of IE don't like the w3 doctype statement that's required for validation in every other browser in the world. grrrrr.
oh, ugh. i'll hush about that.
i finished shaman's crossing by robin hobb today. i'm torn as to whether or not i want to continue with the series, for several reasons. first, i was a little disappointed. it was very slow in places, extremely repetitive in others, and even though i finally settled into her world i never was completely comfortable in it. i never did get a good grasp of the type of magic that was being worked on and through the main character. on the other hand, the characters and storyline(s) were as finely crafted as those in the realm of the elderlings series, which i love. i'll decide tomorrow, rhett, as i'll be just around the corner from barnes & noble. on the other hand, i have a brand new copy of the world according to garp, which needs to be broken in, the eye of the world by robert jordan (which i'm almost afraid to start reading, because i have a feeling i'll get sucked into that series in a big way), and umm .. yeah, the name of the rose by umberto eco, stacked up on my bedside table. i also told a friend that i'd reread the liveship traders trilogy, by robin hobb, with her as soon as she finishes rereading assassin's quest, which will probably be sometime in the next two weeks.
it's finally fall, even the leaves have started changing a bit. fall always brings jeff wayne's musical version of "the war of the worlds" to mind (usually inducing several earworms to spring to life, as well) not because of the song "forever autumn," but because it was the fall and winter of 1978 that i listened to it repeatedly. i loved it so much that i had it on vinyl, 8-track and cassette. now i have it on cd, and i break it out and listen for a few days every fall. but oh how i'd love to see the stage version that's making the rounds in the uk. (what a fantasy that is lol.) still, to be in the uk and see jeff wayne conducting and justin hayward singing live? what a trip that would be. found a video of part of the performance on youtube (of course), and it's amazing to me. so many people, all in sync creating this wonderful piece of music that has been so firmly ensconced in my life for almost 30 years.
Click to viewand of course i have to embed it here so i can come back and watch ... and dream.
wow, i have typed a lot and said very little. snip, snip.
today's reading: i'll probably retreat into the comfort and wonder of garp tonight and make a decision tomorrow about whether to read it straight through, or start something new.