Mozilla

I am in the honeymoon stage of using the Mozzila browser. Probably not a good thing as a web developer since it supports every standard out there and doesn’t reflect problems that would arise in its evil twin, Netscape 6 and its evil second cousin once removed, Netscape 4.79. But still, it’s pretty cool and fun. Fast, too. I think. It’s so hard to tell where bottlenecks are – the browser, the machine, the router, the ISP, blah blah blah.

Got my copy of The Velvet Crush’s ‘Soft Sounds’ in the mail today. Very aptly named – it’s pretty mellow. That’s what the definite article will do to you, I guess.

np – Velvet Crush / In The Presence Of Greatness

The Winter Is Coming

Damn cold this morning. Well maybe not in the context of Canadian winters, but colder than its been in many months, and even after 27 years I reserve the right to bitch unapologetically about it.

Have almost gotten an iframe-free version of the Lake Holiday website done. Still working out some Netscape 4.79 bugs (dammit Seventeen, upgrade yer freaking browser!) but hopefully I’ll be back where I was yesterday by the end of the day.

np – American Music Club / Mercury

History

That is what the iframes are, anyway. I’ve decided to allow Netscapers to view my jewels of wisdom so I have to be rid of the mighty iframe tag. Alas. It was easy enough to apply to my page. Getting the Lake Holiday site to cooperate, that’ll be something else. I think I’m going to have to go to layers… something else Netscape just loooooves. We’ll see what happens. Blargh.

np – Elf Power / Nothing’s Going To Happen

Diary Of Wood

It has come to my attention that my site, and by extension the Lake Holiday site, do not work in Netscape. Because Netscape doesn’t support the marvelous iframe tag. Bastards! I will have to recode the damn thing now. blaaaaaah.

Did some recording tonight at rehearsal. Born On A Train, which sounds pretty damn good, and Awake Too Long, which sounds like tempo is a suggestion we decided against following. It lurches for the whole length – speeds up, slows down, etc. We’ll finish the overdubs just because we’ve gotten this far, but I don’t know if it’ll ever be releaseable.

The Walk

…which is more accurate than ‘The Run For The Cure’. Also acceptable would be ‘saunter’, ‘shuffle’ or any other synonym for moving at a not-brisk pace. Completed the 5K CIBC Run For The Cure this morning, which to my surprise did not involve dashing about the city searching for a hidden Robert Smith whom we would then inflict noogies on. Instead, it was throngs and throngs (in the 1000s, easily) of people marching up University from Nathan Phillips Square, across Bloor and back down to City Hall in the name of raising funds for breast cancer research. Though technically my participation was mandated by HWB, it was fun and for a good cause regardless. Even Jon Voight showed up! Seriously. He was standing at the corner of Bloor and Avenue waving. Strange, but neat.

We completed the walk in about an hour – it would have been quicker if there weren’t so many dang people to navigate around. But there were, so it did. Either way, my legs are achy (though 5K isn’t much more than I might walk in a normal day about town) and I have a blister on the back of my foot from running shoes I haven’t worn in ages and which apparently aren’t broken in yet.

Afternoon was spent watching all (both) of this season’s West Wing. Again. It’s still good the second time around. Also wired up the Lake Holiday website to databases, now I just have to make up administrative pages. I hate doing that. So boring.

np – Low / Trust