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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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22 May 2001 - 4:40 pm
Okay, so I jumped through the ten hoops and watched the three feature length commercials required for me to log on to the Internet from home, and I started up instant messenger.. Sadly, I do not know a single person using the Internet right now, at least according to my buddy list. Of the millions of people using the Internet right now, I know 0 of them. This makes me sad, so I'll talk about something else now.
Namely, Microsoft FrontPage 98, a.k.a. my least favorite program in the world. (Notice the not so smooth paragraph transition? It's almost like I accidentally hit the return key and didn't bother to correct the mistake...) FrontPage has this stupid tendency to refer to html features by it's own made-up name for them. One quick example: named anchors. These are the little things that let you link to a part of the page that's about halfway down the page. They look something like <a href="fred"></a> in html. However, stupid Frontpage98 refers to them as "bookmarks." Now, in relation to the Internet, bookmark has a very different meaning than named anchor, at least to me. I hate FP98. And I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how to use FP to put named anchors in a webpage I'm creating for work. FrontPage has many other features I despise, but it's time for dinner, so you'll be spared a long, long rant about them at this time.
If I'm in a better mood (i.e., people I know are online) I may post again tonight. But then again, I may not.
Posted by on 22 May 2001 at 4:40 PM
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