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J. King Log

A Web log of indeterminate permanence

Productivity? Unlikely.

Today, two things happened: First, I wrote a truly beautiful stylesheet that is at once easy to read, logically grouped and organised, quick to edit, can be made to use extremely specific selectors, and uses a minimum of hacks and workarounds (one for Safari's lack of border collapsing , and a few of various IE/Win shortcomings). It's probably nothing much for people who have been writing stylesheets for years in difficult situations and only really care/need worry about IE users, but when you can get something that involved to work so well in anything but IE without any hacks, it's pretty rewarding.

Second, my friend Jane Smith will now have some time to work with me on a comic-book project we've been toying with. I'm something of an amateur author and she's a much better visual artist than she believes, and I happen to think we make a good team. Hopefully we can make a good start on things.

Therapy through frustration

While I wait for my friend MrCynical to have time to help me with SQL for a Web-related project, I have been slowly and leisurely exploring the D'ni Empire in Uru: Ages Beyond Myst.

It is, in short, a very interesting game. It is a classic adventure game, very much like earlier Myst games or perhaps Return to Zork. It also happens to be absolutely beautiful. Though I am not very far as of yet (my mind is not as logical as I'd like to think, apparently), I have been taking a fair bit of notes and refraining from checking walkthroughs.

Let me tell you, hopping over to <http://gamefaqs.com/> is extremely tempting. Sometimes I long for the days when I didn't have a Network connection; I didn't have a choice then. Of course, I quickly realise that without the Web I'd probably die, so I'm not about to go unplug myself to remove a little temptation.

How fortuitous.

And here I was going to write my own weblog script. This will do just nicely. :)
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