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Sitting down to add stuff at eleven a.m. to avoid what I hereby call the update stress syndrome. That means that I look at the clock sometime in the evening, realize there's something I'd like to do soon and that I'd like to surf before that. Then I think "Oh no! I haven't finished those things I want to add to the site today!", and finish them in more of a hurry than is strictly necessary. That's what per-minute fees do to you, you want to use every second of online time ...
How I love dealing with bureaucracy! Some time ago, I finally got around to fixing the required papers to start practicing for driver's licence and sent them in. Unfortunately, I had the good taste to be honest and mention in the health declaration that I had a touch of epilepsy when I was three to five years old. I also mentioned that I had had no symptoms neither before nor after that period. Soon, a little note dropped in stating that I needed to send in another certificate from a doctor about it to get cleared. Fortunately, one's father is a doctor and knows a lot of other doctors ... Today, I got a short and clear certificate from one of them to send in. The tone of it was just right, the headline was "Certificate!" with bold letters, and the rest was in the same light but completely clear style. If they don't get that they're even stupider, or perhaps humourless and bureaucratic, than I feared ...
Internetworld has an article on xml, xsl and svg. Those are upcoming improvements for site creators, but probably quite a mixed blessing. They, together with matching WISIWYG HTML editors will mean that any idiot can throw together an all singing and dancing page with animations and transitions in every single corner without asking themselves for what purpose. Internet will still be about information at heart, and no amount of flashy presentation can really replace information. Fortunately, intelligent people will realize this and produce useful and informative sites where the new stuff is used in reasonable amounts to improve content, but all other sites will be painful to see after a short while ... More related reading on the webdesign-page ...
I just hate when Windows sneaks around, doing things behind my back! Just discovered a nice little file in the infamous Temporary Internet Files folder's invisible subfolder Content.IE5. It's called index.dat, is normally invisible to you, currently takes up a hefty 8,8 mb and refuses to be deleted. Anyone care to explain?
