There won’t be any entries in this Weblog tomorrow. The reason: December 1st, World Aids Day, will be a Day Without Weblogs
I have never lost a friend or family member to AIDS (thank Ghod) - but I graduated from the Fine Arts faculty at my University. Far too many of my fellow alumni from then were experimenting, taking risks…
I haven’t kept up with many of them in the 10 years since, but I always hope that they’re okay.
The next sound you’ll imagine hearing is my voice, in a scream of frustration.
At work I’ve moved forward a step on a Flash effect that I’ve been struggling with for weeks: making text scroll inside of a scene. Problem is, now it only works once, not a second time. A step forwards, two back.
Then work on the HTML side of things: the files I’ve worked on appear invisible to my Web editor and FTP apps. I can tell that they’re there; just the necessary apps can’t.
Must not kill the computer. Must not kill the computer. Must not kill the computer…
I got home from a meeting for freelance Website work about half an hour ago… and I’m exhausted.
I’ll be heading off to bed in a few minutes. I go in to the office tomorrow; I didn’t get as many hours of work done the past few days as I’d like, but what I did is still better than nothing.
Last night was our Canadian Elections. The Liberals were elected to their third mandate, with over 170 seats. This in itself is a difference from the US political system… we elect a party to power, with the party leader retiring if needed, and another member of the party becoming Prime Minister.
Another difference from the US: our pundits say we had our poorest turnout to vote in about 80 years; the percentage of Canadians who voted was 63. Big difference from the 59% mentioned in the States as a poor turnout…
As to the final choice: I’m not very happy with it. The Liberals failed to keep many of their promises in the past 8 years, and nearly destroyed our country’s health and other social systems. The most pathetic thing here though, is that no better political option is present.
Get Started With CSS. I use Style Sheets extensively on this site. You should too on your own. It’s now practically old hat as far as Web tricks go, but I wanted to share a "How-to" about it anyways, for those os you still not up to date.
Okay. Enough is enough!
I’m not a George W. Bush fan - and he proved himself to be just as petty when it seemed he was losing - but I think this has been drawn out far too long as it is.
The people have spoken Al, and we have to accept it, whether we like the result or not. Just let it pass already… bad enough this’ll be the Presidency most mired in petty political games as it is.
On the radio this morning, I heard that Robert Downey Jr. was arrested again, for possession of cocaine.
I thought he was finally getting his life back in order. I hoped prison had helped him to exorcise his demons. sigh
I think Google’s spidering techniques need fixing…
I’ve been studying my tracker logs for Jazzlife lately; things that are mentioned briefly in passing are showing through the Yahoo search as part of this site.
That wouldn’t be a problem… if it weren’t for the fact that several of the searches to this site have been for online sex. Jazzlife is most definitely not in the market for that!
I’m doing something right now that, considering the name for this Blog, shouldn’t be so rare: I’m listening to a Jazz music CD! Jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum’s Forever You. Very smooth music, some of it covers of pop standards, like Mariah Carey’s song "My All". Great listening.
Strange. My Delphi forum login is going screwy this morning…
From a link on The Breast Chronicles, I visited Danni’s Hard Drive yesterday (sorry, you won’t get the link here. Unlike Colleen’s Blog, it isn’t worth it). I’ve been searching for this site for awhile, the interviews on Entertainment Tonight piquing my curiosity to see the woman who thinks she deserves Cindi Margolis’ title as "Most downloaded woman on the Internet".
Danni Ashe is a woman with a 34G sized chest. She uses the site for nothing but naked pictures and video feeds to pornography. Oh yes… and you have to pay to see that.
You won’t find nudity on Margolis’ site. She doesn’t want to exploit herself that way. Seeing Danni’s site, I applaud her for it.
I’m anything but a prude, and I very much appreciate the female form… but catering to the lowest common denominator in my book may make you the most sleazy person on the Internet, but doesn’t deserve celebrity.
Jeffrey Allan Boman is a writer/artist/filmmaker, with a few game author credits and a few script wins and NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writing Month) novel wins since 2002.
I try to talk about Jazz music here, but life has many other twists and turns to talk about as well.
