Vexen = moody

I want to find some epic HTML task to engage in... but what? I know... I'll remove all the redundant KEYWORD meta tags from all my sites! Then do a few items from my webpages_todo.txt file...

Number 1: Add lots of links to content-pages from photo-pages.

And add some formatted context quotes to pages, the same as what BBC News does[1].

Redo my http://www.vexen.co.uk/books/ directory! That's what I need to do!

[1] For amusement value I phrased that sentance like a stupid person. Innit.

Tags: html, moody, websites
Listening To: "The rising of the current" by T.A.C.

"Don't Send HTML Emails" by Vexen Crabtree (2003)

HTML emails are harder to read, larger, take longer to download, facilitate all kinds of viruses and security risks, are impolite, are mostly spam and can't be read by all email clients. Be nice: Send plain text emails.

A user who is trying to communicate with me is refusing to turn off HTML emails... they are a Christian, I don't know how old or where, but they're annoying enough already (they have a tendancy towards UPPER CASE text too), ... so they inspired me to finally to a page that I can now quote at them, at length.

Disclaimer: Aspen Fox, you've given me just and sensible reasons why you prefer to send emails in HTML format, which is fine, it's not good netiquette but it works nontheless.

Tags: communication, emails, html, html emails, internet security, netiquette
Current Location: London, UK
Current Mood: excited
Listening To: "Only human (Original mix)" by Hexedene

Spent the morning doing housework. Then I ate pie and beans, which was yummy.

I've been upgrading my Notepad program:

It has Multiline search and replace now. So you can, for example, search through all open files and replace with multiple lines, or replace multiple lines with a single line, etc. This is invaluable for HTML editting where you might be editting twenty or thirty pages and want to change a part of the layout on all the pages.

It also has Prepend / Append functionality. So you can tell it to add certain text to the beginning, or end, of all open files.

Fixed a few bugs, so when you're doing multiple file searches when it has gone through all occurances, the Find & Replace form doesn't jump to the center of screen (which is always an annoying place for it to be).

Updated Favorites list, so when a file is missing it gives me an option of removing the file from the list, or of editting it. Previously I'd have to go to Options -> Favorites, but now it goes there automatically if I click.

I still couldn't fix the font selection option. When I ask windows to bring up the Common Dialogue Control for font selection, it complains that there are no fonts installed. In reality, there are many. I've had this problem for several years, and have given up trying to fix it. If I want to change font, I recompile!

In my Notepad's favorites list is markup.html where I store lots of useful blocks of HTML. So if I want to do one of my standard tricks (full-height table with top tr aligned top, and bottom tr aligned bottom with a disclaimer notice in it), I can do it in seconds.

I've also updated my New File > html document.html template file, removing the meta keywords header, because search engines don't use it any more, and adding lang="en" to opening HTML tag.

Tags: geek, html, notepad, programming
Current Mood: geeky
Listening To: "Temple of love" by Sisters of Mercy

Am attending another Interview today... wish me luck again!

Yesterday's went excellently, it was very promising and natural and good interview. So I have another one with a more technical minded person today, who will quiz me on technical stuff including a HTML test, I don't really know what this test will entail but if I, Vexen, who talks and thinks in HTML [1], can't pass it, then no-one can!

[1] Although probably non-standards compliant HTML, and biased towards IE... hopefully the company/techie is practically orientated rather than theory orientated because I'd be weaker at the latter.

After interview yesterday I hung around Camden reading a collection of essays by Max Weber, who is very rapidly becoming someone I'm falling for. Then attended a Sluts meet, which was excellent because I love the company, and we met in a pub that sold Thai food, and got to see my adorable sister felishumanus.

Ah... Thai food... or something... after finally getting to bed last night at beyond midnight, I was woken a few hours later with stomach pains that my body told me were food poisoning or a lower stomach bug. It appears to have gone for now, so maybe it was the former. No other symptoms than waking up in pain and a tiny bit of sweating.

Today, am going to Interview then will sit around Camden reading a book all day (if anyone is around, text me on 07812 048684 and come keep me company from 1pm onwards!) until about 7/8pm where I will meet some friends in Starbucks. I will definately need the coffee because I only slept five hours last night, and four (restless) hours this nite!

Um... I need to write an updated CV and print it out for the 2nd Interview. I don't have a printer so I'm going to take a floppy with files on (and upload a version in case the floppy breaks), and if I happen to pass an Internet cafe or somesuchplace, then will pop in and print out file for whatever they charge.

Tags: camden, felis, geeky, html, max weber
Current Mood: busy