OK, this is cool. Language has never been one of my strong points. Therefore, it has fascinated me. The Online Etymology Dictionary is a find that is bookmarked, ready for future use.
You will also find me hanging out here: MINI2
Starbucks
There is a Starbucks opening 200m from where we live. Now globalisation touches me personally.
Ahhh, that feels better. Its amazing what an hour cutting code can do in calming the mind. Just like basketweaving.
Why would someone search for Britney Spears on this web site? In the statistics of the search funtion to the left, it shows that people were searching for information about her on this site… a strange world.
MINI
Another weekend, more time in the MINI Cooper S. Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 24 Nov 02
Dell Laptop
New laptop. Hunks of memory and processor. Scary what computer can do now. I imagine in 18 months time it will be slow and clunky.
MINI Meet
What I get up to now on the weekend: Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 10 Nov 02
A cognitive breakthrough. Instead of coding a particular query/transform of XML, I wrote an XSLT and transformed the XML. Saved many lines of coding and now understand “Why XSLT?”
XSL-FO
Having lots of fun with XSL-FO. I don’t know why I didn’t go and learn this stuff sooner. In my experiments, I am using styles and flows as defined by Adobe FrameMaker overriding the XSL-FO commands. Next stop: XSLT.
All this is in aid of some Adobe Document Server demonstrations I am doing over the next couple of weeks. Also learning how to use JScript as an ASP language. I would have preferred to be coding in PHP; but the COM to PHP stuff is a little beyond my ken at the moment. Keep things as simple as possible. Oh yes, the music of the 1980s assists greatly.
Fixed
www.nickhodge.com now works. All is good in the world. Learnt waaaaay too much about DNS. Thanks to Hilton (Alan Rosenfeld’s brother) and Max at Hostforweb for their effort and assistance.