ACJ’s Weblog: November 24, 2003

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Torture and the gaschamber

Posted: November 24 2003

I just got back from playing basketball on a street court nearby. I was enjoying myself, doing some nice tricks and hitting a lot of shots, and then... splash. My basketball in one big pile of fucking dog shit. What particularly makes me aggressive about this situation (that happens on a regular basis) is that:

There's a fucking fence around the court
Small children play there every day
There's a street on all four sides of the court, outside the fence
There's little fields and special dog shit trays, outside the fence
There's never people with dogs on the court when I'm there

People that purposely make their dogs shit on basketball courts that are in use should be tortured and gassed... or at least shot in the face.

Academic Integration

Posted: November 24 2003

I spend last night and today integrating my KABK Portfolio into the style and structure of the rest of this website. My KABK Portfolio is a place I use to show some of the work I've done at the Royal Academy of Arts, on which I've been studying graphic and typographic design for more than two years now. There's no clear and easy way to navigate to this section via the home page yet. I'm going to patch up the individual pages of the KABK Portfolio, and then I'm going to think of a way to integrate it into the navigation of this website.

I finally called Challenge Computers today to ask them about the mother board they owe me. I also posted my MCH bill. This leaves me with the following list of things I have to do today and tomorrow.

Finish my book for the Icons project
Work on my online bookstore for Interactive Media class
Buy a present for my mother
Finish my essay on Indian Filmography for Film History class

Weblog Integration

Posted: November 24 2003

I finally integrated the weblog into the style and markup of my site. This process actually only took several minutes and bytes. The weblog is no longer served as XHTML1.1, but XHTML1.0, just like the rest of the pages on this site (except for the home page, which is still served as XHTML1.1). The weblog is now linked to the same shortcut icon and StyleSheet as the rest of the pages. The most drastic change I made is probably moving the Calendar from the front to the end of the content. Other changes that I made include:

Added class="item" to the div element of every main section (for two rather complex reasons that involve RDF and CSS).
h3 elements are now reserved for section headers. Other h3's are now h4. Some h4 elements were removed.
External Links are no longer labeled with the name of the author, but with the actual title of the website it refers to.
Changed the other of appearance of the External Links, making it more realistic. This also required some additions.
Removed items that were not active from the Archives list. I might change the structure of my archives alltogether.
Added several div elements and several class and id attributes to the structure of this document.
Edited the StyleSheet a bit. I tend to use the code tag in my weblog, and the current StyleSheet was rendering it in a tiny corps.

I wish I could get a ISSN. :(

I updated the Photography section of my Portfolio with a series of basketball pictures I made with a digital camera for the photography classes of Alf Schöne in my first year at the Royal Academy. Expect more photography and other additions to the portfolio tonight.

I just added a typography and a writing section to my portfolio, and styled the del and ins elements.

Art is relative

Posted: November 24 2003

My friend Jotier payed me a visit today. He brought back my Pentium 166 box, which was a happy surprise since I had been meaning to ask him to do so, but never did. The reason I'm happy to see this old box, is that is has two graphic adapters that I can use, being the Graphics Blaster Exxtreme and the Voodoo Dragon 2.

I showed Jotier the movie from my Integration project, of which I've updated the page a little. It was not the only project page I've updated today. The unst logo on the unst project page is now linked to the font size settings of user agents. The method I used is a combination of XHTML and inline CSS. This is a rather nice menthod, and I think I'll be using it more often.

Code: <img alt="unst" height="29" src="logo.gif" style="height:2.9em;width:6.4em" title="" width="64" />

User Agents that do not read inline CSS will read the height and width attributes of the img element (which is 29 and 64 pixels). User Agents that do read inline CSS, however, will render the height of the image as the base font size value multiplied by 2.9, and will multiply the base font size by 6.4 to calculate the width.

I will be making more updates to the individual project and portfolio pages. I'm considering moving archived weblogs from the archives folder to the weblog folder. I'm also considering archiving weblog entries by week, day, and category (they're only archived by year and month now).

Last, but not least, I added axis="today" to the td in the Calendar table that contains the anchor link to the weblog entries of today. It is not supported properly by IE (what else is new?), but I figured it'd be more semantically correct. I've used this method before, and I'm not entirely sure why I ever removed it. Anyway, it will allow me to extra style the table cell that is associated with the current day (for Gecko based browsers at least).

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