urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight The Twilight Report Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20041202.1259 2004-12-02T17:59:00 3, 2, 1... 2004-12-02T17:59:00 2004-12-02T17:59:00 <CENTER><B>Three</B></CENTER> <BR><BR> My lunch is culturally schizophrenic today. I ordered the Goulash Soup and the Texas Beef Brisket. <BR><BR> <CENTER><B>Two</B></CENTER> <BR><BR> Some of you already know that I run a web site for a retired marketing guy (henceforth "Chuck"). This is on the side, my day job is still working at The Company. The web site is <A HREF=http://www.idea-bank.com>www.idea-bank.com</A>. Originally I did everything involved with the web site, except for write the actual content, of course. Some time back Chuck wanted to revamp the look of the site, and I recommend that he get someone else do the HTML. So now someone else is responsible for the HTML and I do the back end database and administrative tools. <BR><BR> This actually seemed like a pretty good idea at the time, because my philosophy toward HTML is somewhat old fashion. I don't believe in spinning or flaming logos, and I don't think every web page needs a fancy JavaScript driven GUI. I actually think those things tend to distract from the content, which is (contrary to popular opinion) why you actually go to a web site. <BR><BR> Chuck wants to improve the web site with some new features. As it turns out the back end (my part) is actually flexible enough that the changes required are minimal. A few weeks ago I asked our HTML guy to make some really minor changes, amounting to copying some files to a different location. I could actually do this myself... it is my server... but I want to stay out of the HTML code, and besides it would be rude. He still hasn't made these changes. I guess this is the downside to this arrangement. <BR><BR> Since the server is mine, I like to keep everything neat and tidy, and this guy is a Windows user, so he does little things to annoy me like using the short .htm extension instead of .html. We aren't running any sorry ass sixteen bit operating systems here; filename extensions do not have to be three characters, damn it! <BR><BR> <CENTER><B>One</B></CENTER> <BR><BR> Think I finally got Parallel Abstraction working. I'm stress testing it with test cases right now. This is big. This is proof that the Universe does not hate me.