Several Things

[flwyd]

on candystripe legs spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly! a movement in the corner of the
room! and there is nothing I can do when i
realise with freight that the spiderman is having
me for dinner tonight

quietly he laughs and shaking his head creeps
closer now closer to the foot of the bed and
softer than shadow and quicker than flies his
arms are all around me and his tongue in my
eyes "be still be calm be quiet now my precious
boy don't struggle like that or I will only love
you more for it's much too late to get away or
turn on the light the spiderman is having you
for dinner tonight"

and I feel like I'm being eaten by a thousand
million shivering furry holes and I know that in
the morning I will wake up in the shivering cold
and the spiderman is always hungry...

-- The Cure, "Lullaby"

This is perhaps the best summary of the Iraq "debate" I've seen.

My brother & co. plus some of my circle pals went down to Denver for the Ani Difranco concert, which was cancelled because she was sick. So they ended up at Paris on the Platte and saw a small sign on the Metaphysical/Occult section of the bookstore section of the coffe shop that said "Think D&D geeks are scary? Well, at least they don't believe in it."

"I have been smitten by God."

It seems I'm only 51% Boulder. I wonder if any of you who don't live in Boulder have a higher rating. That'd be pretty funny.

I participated in two Wiccan initiation meetings yesterday and then went to speak at a Tau Beta Pi initiation. It's nice when days have themes...

This month marks the 10th anniversary of NCSA Mosaic. I think I used Mosaic once or twice in May 1993. I think I visited Whitehouse.gov and was impressed that it had audio from Bill Clinton and something cute about Socks. (Mosaic wasn't my first web browsing experience -- I'd used lynx quite a bit, and lynx remained my browser of choice until 1998 or so.) I am greatly endebted to NCSA for A Beginner's Guide to HTML and their CGI documentation.

In the eight and a half years since I read the Beginner's Guide, the only significant change in my web development strategy has been Cascading Style Sheets. I've used tables, frames, JavaScript, and all that jazz, but most of my pages still follow the simple guidelines of the early '90s, including using <strong> and <em> instead of <b> and <i> so that browsers and users can customize how they want strong text and emphasis to look. I always put alt text in my images. I target my pages at the lowest common denominator, which means I don't have to do anything special to share my information with PDAs, cellphones, the blind, etc. And, unlike the primer itself, I haven't adopted the written image banner logo/sidebar links paradigm. (Of course, some of my pages haven't changed since 1994.)

I wrote more reflections on the past decade in January.

Comments

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

somethin' weird going on with your Boulder link... I wanted to take the quiz, I really did... I want to know how Boulder I am, dammit! 'Cause it seems to me that I'd test fairly high (unless they have a ton of "I love to ski. I love to mountainclimb. I love to wear hiking boots all day long and even in bed."-type questions...) and I want bragging rights if I have a higher score than you. *grin*

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

Haha. I typed <a href="href="http://... Try again, doll.

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

I got 82%!
DUDE!