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Snarky
A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
-- Charles Dickens
Tuesday, December 30, 1997
Another quiet day at work. Many people have taken off from the beginning of last week till next Monday.
I'm afraid I was a little snippy on the Project Cool DHTML mailing list today. Someone was asking about NATURALSIZEFLAG. Now, this is a bogus attribute that Pagemill and Sitemill (used to ?) insist on throwing into your HTML code. I knew this already, but wanted to include a link to a page explaining it in my mail to the list. So I did a web search (I love IE's quick search: just type "go searchterm" in the address bar and zoom you are there.) and found a page that explained the NATURALSIZEFLAG phenomenon. This topic has also been discussed ad nauseum on the HTML newsgroup. So I threw a little comment into my answer about the benefits of doing a websearch. I had a valid point, but it did come across as snarky or smart-alecky. So I sent mail to the original poster apologizing for my tone.
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My friend Jon Newman is back in town. I knew that he had been wanting a picture for his web site, so I let him know I had my camera with me today. He dropped by, we had lunch and I took some pictures. It isn't easy to get people to relax in front of the camera! Believe me, none of the pictures do justice to his charm.
I massaged some of the images in Image Composer. Since I already had it installed on my machine, it was quicker and easier for me to do this than it would have been for him.
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I did more stuff with Frontier tonight. Of course, the whole process of updating this new site would have been much quicker and easier if I had just done it manually. But I wanted to learn this new tool! And it's much easier to do it on this separate site, than to try and munge my exisiting stuff.
Frontier really is the type of tool that appeals to me. The thing that pleased me most on the Gardening CD-ROM I worked on in 1995 was the suite of modular WordBasic macros that I developed (greatly aided by The Hacker's Guide to Word) to convert the series of books that were the basis of the CD into the format and tagging that we needed to build the CD. I loved solving the puzzles!
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