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New Frontiers
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
-- Russell Lynes
Monday, December 29, 1997
I really made some progress with Frontier tonight. This database/scripting language/web publishing system is really powerful! If you can wrap your mind around it, and sort through the many layers of abstraction that are available, you can do a lot. Luke Tymowski is currently playing with it, and redoing the look of his site several times a day!
I'm especially interested in a macro that I'm borrowing from Phil Suh (or is it a template or a script? the lines get very blurry.) that will automate a TOC-type list of links down the left-hand side of a web page, such that all the pages will be listed, but the page you are on won't be a link! These kind of twiddly things are a pain to do by hand.
My only frustration so far is that Frontier is new to the Windows platform. We are really in uncharted territory, while the system is much more mature on the Mac. Many cool things don't work yet in Win32. But we will get there!
At least I didn't feel guilty at the time spent, since I was doing actual work on the site I am revamping.
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I have no plans for New Years Eve. Eileen Gunn and John Berry usually give a very nice party, but they had to bail this year because they are too busy. (Neurotic fear: maybe they are having a secret party, and wanted to pare down the guest list! No, I refuse to torture myself that way.) Maybe I'll go over to my sister's house.
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The latest link from Cruel Site of the Day is a great one: The Museum of Menstruation. (Squeamish guys, click away now. But after all the urine-related talk on diary-l, I'd expect the list members to read further.) This is not only a web site, but exists in the real world.
The collection of historical menstrual products is amazing! I especially like the little booklets from Modess, that included beauty tips as well as product info. The 20s book, "Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday" is also worth looking at.
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