Recommended reading for the day, at A List Apart: Forgiving Browsers Considered Harmful.
More on the topic maybe, if my head clears up some day. [concussion still]
Author: Stephanie Booth
Brainstorm [en]
Over at waferbaby: do you think paper and books will eventually disappear?.
Memory [en]
CSS [en]
Feel free to watch me sink as I try to float.
Site francophone [en]
Spécialement pour vous, amis frémissant devant la langue anglaise, un portail francophone pour ce site. Le lien “français” dans la navigation vous y emmènera joyeusement, où que vous vous trouviez.
J’en ai profité pour mettre en ligne un petit texte écrit sur le choc culturel et ses bienfaits.
Un avertissement toutefois: ces pages utilisent la “nouvelle version” de mon site, qui est encore en phase de fignolage. Plus de tableaux, mais quelques problèmes encore pour IE5 Mac (et aussi IE4.5). Je vous conseille de désactiver les feuilles de style si vous voulez lire en toute tranquilité. J’espère trouver bientôt une solution!
Blank subject bug [en]
After installing IE6, some emails started coming into Outlook Express with no subject or sender. The problem persisted even though I uninstalled IE6 – and was most irritating as it messed up all my email sorting rules. It seems the problem is due to a corrupt mlang.dll file. Glad to have the solution!
Retour en arrière [en]
Suite à une récente discussion, j’ai tiré pour vous de mes archives une composition française vieille de plus de dix ans: C’est un mec. Y meurt.
Contamination [en]
Strange what secrets can do. Secrets kept by parents from their children – to shield them from pain. But almost as if by magic, pain will find its way though the cracks.
Years after, you realize it is there.
Inside me, there is the pain of losing the one I love. There is also the pain of facing death before my time has come. It is not my pain – but I carry it all the same.
Notes [en]
Just what I expected the doctor would say: mild concussion, aspirin and rest for a week.
More stuff on online romance.
Still not solved all the re-coding problems.
Nothing [en]
Have you ever tried doing nothing? Nothing like in “not doing anything” but also “not reading” and “not thinking too hard”? I’ve tried and managed for about half an hour. It’s particularly the “not reading” and “not thinking” part that is hard for me. Stick me anywhere with a book or a paper and pencil, and I can survive for hours.
But why on earth…? Actually, it seems my brain went “shkeplunk” in my skull at judo today. No concussion, nothing serious – just a powerful headache. [Edit 11.11.04 Actually, a nice little concussion. I had trouble concentrating for weeks, and headaches for months, after that.] And my physio sent me back home after telling me that I should give my brain a rest for forty-eight hours. I’m most certainly not going to manage that – look, I’m failing already.
“Yeah sure, no banging my head against walls tonight!” I said with a large smile.
She shook her head from side to side to show me. “Like, don’t shake your head or run… and don’t think too hard either.”
I looked at her with some – understandable – surprise. “No thinking?”
“No thinking”, she answered with a perfectly straight face.
“B…but… I have a coursework to do this week…” I protested.
“Skip it”, she smiled.
“Oh… and reading? That’s OK, isn’t it?” My plans for the evening started crumbling down.
“No reading.”
She was leaving. “What can I do then?!”
“Nothing…!” came the answer as she went through the door.