birthdays

Hey, it's Jeff's birthday today. Please do hassle him in e-mail about it.

The photo at the top of this Blathering is of Spike. Or rather, Jeff before he had a name (the message on the cake reads "Happy Birthday Spike"). His parents couldn't decide on a name at the hospital, so nicknamed him "Spike" for a while instead. Feel free to hassle him about that, too. :-)

Thanks to AmandaF and Andrea for finding Bloodchild and R is for Rocket for us! We've been still unable to locate a copy of Spirit of the Dorsai so have sadly had to drop Jodi's song "Amanda" from our playlist.

I LOVE MOVABLE TYPE. Sorry about that outburst, but it couldn't be helped. The more I use this software, the more I like it. I imported about nine months' worth of archives from Greymatter last night pretty easily (one small glitch which was easily fixed), simply by following the detailed instructions in Movable Type's user manual.

As I mentioned before, I decided against using cascading style sheets in my Blatherings since not all browsers use them. 'Twas a major disappointment for me; I had so been lusting after some of the control that CSS offered.

My friend Reid, however, has sent me links to some interesting online articles about how CSS works with different browsers, different workarounds, and how it might not be necessary for me to abandon the idea of using it completely (yay!). I've only started reading the articles (I'm on Fear of Style Sheets), but so far it sounds as if tables should still be used for setting margins and layout (else it result in the wonky formatting I noticed when looking at Movable Type's basic template through different browers), but that CSS can still be used to set leading and font. If a browser can't use CSS, it'll just "see" the user's regular font, no biggie.

Hm...now I can't help thinking: would my life would have been any different if I had married a Spike instead of a Jeff? Would I own a pair of 6-inch red spike heels and wear them to the mall? Would we have matching tattoos? Would I wear black lipstick and haunt the Goth shops on Queen St.?

Although I'm sure I could have fallen in love with a Spike instead of a Jeff, I'm glad his parents decided on the latter.

Happy Birthday, Jeff. :-)