Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
What wouldn’t I do for you, you lucky brats! I stayed up wayyy past my bedtime to finish my HTML Express tutorial. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t quite finished it (the part on tables has still to be written). But I was starting to be impatient about getting it up.
Oh, and a little rant on WYSIWYG editors. Please consume with a pinch of salt.
Run off and read the rants + raves section at k10k. I could add a couple of “me too!” posts up there.
Thanks to Heather, I found another interesting article in the Urban Legends Reference Pages: bonsai kittens.
Another couple of pet peeves. I guess I’m coming up with so many that I’ll have to concentrate them all in one place soon:
That’s all for now, folks!
I know I keep rambling about what I’m going to do – and I’m much slower at actually doing stuff. But on the whole, I think I’m not doing too bad (knowing me).
I’ve been working on the HTML Express tutorial. It will be up some day. I’ve started working on the culture shock notes. I’ve a few more deep thoughts (God bless those boring philosophy classes) waiting to be typed up.
I’m starting to seriously consider building an all-french web designing resource – from what I’ve seen, the french web is a little “behind” as far as designing issues are concerned. Blame the language barrier – they can’t read A List Apart if their English is only so good…
Finally, I might be giving a class on Internet Culture here in Lausanne. The aim of it being to introduce parents of school children to the world of the web, so that they have the means to follow their child’s work – and also be aware of the security and monitoring issues involving the web.
And if I do that, of course, a new set of documents will definately see the light of the day…
Oh yes! I almost forgot! Of course, I still have the project of feeding my blog entries into a database one day, so that I can serve them on “thematic” pages for you. That would be quite a lot of work though, and I am definately not going to take the time to learn MySQL just now.
I’m also seriously thinking of chopping up my long logbook pages into smaller units – a screen or two long. What do all you travel-library readers think about this?
For those of you who are wondering what’s happening to me these days, I am actually spending less time online and more time in my books! It’s the holidays now and there are a couple of courseworks I want to get done before they end.
So I’m alive and well (although at the moment I have this nasty cold, but I’m taking care of it, thank you!) and studying. I’ve also had a spell or two of flat-cleaning madness – yep, my flat needed it badly…
Seems one thing I’m rather good at is assisting people in making decisions.
Can I make a living out of that?
The Myth of The Aryan Invasion of India, by David Frawley.
My classes on Indian culture have often put to doubt the famous “Aryan invasion” theory. My own observations of its use today by Indians to justify just about anything (superiority of fair people, caste system, North vs. South, superiority of Dravidian culture… and so on) have also brought me to cast on it a very critical eye.
Here is my account of Frawley’s article – maybe not the best nor the last writing on the subject, but nevertheless interesting and convincing.
Nous assistons à une précipitation du temps.