Feeds:Friday, Spring Break
Site rebuilding continues apace, having taken a brief detour to learn some php. The crazy thing is, if I do it right, you won't even know it's there. I'm determined to make sure that the end-result xhtml that ends up in the browser is as good as I can make it, though. Roger Johansson has very much impressed the importance of this upon me. I commend his writings to anyone who's interested in crafting good web pages, where good means accessible (eg. to the blind, those on low-speed connections, and those using different browsers) and functional (ie. following web standards, won't break down on the next -or current- wave of technology). I've been reading it avidly for over a month, ever since Dr. Google recommended it to me.
So. I was reading webcomics, as I often do, and two of today's caught my attention especially. Diesel Sweeties had me laughing out laud (sic), not at Metal Steve's punchline, but at RR#c-63's penultimate panel propoganda. I love talking like that, and I love when other people talk like that. Or rather, this unit loves talking like that.
This unit also reads xkcd (being a stubborn sort, this unit also pronounces it), and though not as funny, provides some interesting thoughts. Again, czech out that penultimate panel propaganda (hereafter referred to as PPP). Perhaps bloggers (loathe though I usually am to include myself in this group, even now that it's moderately socially acceptable, this post -rife with links, discussing the content of other websites- must necessarily label me as such) will not be celebrated so enthusiastically in the future, but the point about current Internet freedom is well-made. Having personally watched the Internets grow and multiply, not to mention increasing in complexity, for almost as long as it's been in the public eye, I think perhaps we do take for granted the opportunities it presents, particularly in the "generation's finest minds meeting" sort of way. Will those freedoms survive? I hope so, but as the comic suggests, it's not guarenteed. So.
I was going to rant about the Internet and homogenised communities, but this post is long enough and the point I want to make is not yet well-formed in my mind, so I'll leave it for another time. Unless I forget about it. I do that sometimes.
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