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By This Axe, I Shall Rule!If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveller's eye, determine the direction of the journey. |
   
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Monday, September 1, 1997
I went to see Kull the Conqueror today. I liked it! If you enjoy Xena, Warrior Princess (XWP) or Hercules, the Legendary Journeys (HLJ), this is a great movie for you. The production values were great, there was enough action, and Kevin Sorbo showed plenty of pecs. He showed more acting skills and a darker side than he gets to display on HLJ. Tia Carrere was suitably evil as the evil witch, and the lead bad guy whom I didn't get the name of was rather tasty as well. I liked the fact that several of the characters who were supposed to be related actually looked like each other! This is a movie rarity.
XWP is a series that I have enjoyed, although since they switched the time that it is shown locally, I haven't seen as much as in previous years. I was on a Xena mailing list for a time, but the signal to noise ratio was too bad. And you thought diarists flamed each other!
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I've been outed as a net nag. I feel that this is in a good cause, though, and feel no ill will towards the person who outed me. I was offering some unsolicited feedback to Ray German, asking him to add navigation links to his diary entries, and by God, he did it! I thank you, Ray, and your future readers will thank you. I'll keep reading!
This reminds me of the feedback I used to give people who posted, asking for site critiques, on the newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. I had a short mental checklist of things to look for, and even had some canned text items I could pop in an email easily, for some of the most often committed problems. The difference is that those folks asked for feedback, and I don't recall that Ray did.
Speaking of HTML problems, I got some mail a few weeks ago, from someone telling me that in Nav my August entry template had the quote part running into the navigation stuff. I checked in Nav at work and saw nothing like that, so attributed it to net weirdness and went my merry way. But when I received a second report, specifying Nav 4, I went to look again. I found a machine with this version installed, and was mortified to see the truth of this. This ocurred because Nav seems to think that margin always applies to BODY, rather than the parent element which is necessarily the BODY. So I retroactively fixed all of August in Nav 4 by uploading a modified stylesheet. I took the opportunity to finetune the new index and entry designs for September as well.
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