Weird. I just got the hiccups for the first time in around a decade (at least). How weird. Though, I think I just made them go away.

There’s been a lot of heated discussion going around about CSS lately (or maybe there always is and I just noticed it). I keep reading up on all of it and some of it I can identify with and some of it not. And, in typical blog fashion, figure’d I’d write about it. For the record, I’m a fan of CSS. There are things it has issues with (and it frustrates the hell out of me), but there are lots of things it does well and it has definitely made my life easier. In my opinion, the big problem with CSS (and things like XHTML) is that it isn’t easy. It requires a bit more effort to learn about it than it did to learn the basics of HTML enough to throw a page together.

I had a few good things helping me on the way. The biggest of which was a good book. Kynn Bartlett’s Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours. I’m not real familiar with what other books are out there, but this one helped me a lot. It also did a good job of showing what things work in what browsers. I found that as long as I was careful with what parts of CSS I used things would be relatively cool. Though, I did choose to not support Netscape 4. I know some people don’t have a choice, but I do think there’s a point where you need to cut the lifeline. And it made my life much easier.

The point of this is that this stuff isn’t simple. Should it be? I’m not sure I’m qualified to answer that. But I do know that now that I have all the plumbing in place on my site it’s easy to change a lot of how it looks on the fly than it was before. I need to try some of the various editing tools out there to see how well they work. But I think that even without those there’s a certain basic level of knowledge that goes with doing anything beyond very very simple markup. And it isn’t always easy to find that knowledge amidst everything out there.

Laurie Anderson: “When love is gone, there’s always justice./ And when justice is gone, there’s always force./ And when force is gone, there’s always Mom./ Hi, Mom!” [Quotes of the Day]

This is the 2nd to last batch of CDs to rip. I’ve got some other random stuff after these, but this is the bulk of it. Here goes:

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
• Billy Bragg – Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
• Bronski Beat – Age of Consent
• Book of Love – Book of Love
• Bjork – Big Time Sensuality (CD Single)
• Bjork – Debut
• Bigod-20 – On the Run (CD Single)

The most notable thing out of this bunch is the Bigod-20 single, which has their version of Like a Prayer. I personally think it’s the best version out there.

I feel broken today.

Friends of mine are throwing a house party tonight. I’m so happy. I really need to just cut loose and have some fun. Of course the hardest part is figuring out what records I want to play. I’ve been going through my records for the past few days so I’ve got all this music bouncing around in my head. It makes it very hard to go through and choose what I want to play exactly.

WIred has a pretty good article on the Apple Music Store. It also confirmed of mine about international customers.

However, the gaps aren’t Apple’s fault. The store offers all the songs available for download from the big-five record labels. The labels’ Byzantine licensing process is preventing Apple from offering more songs from more artists, and from bringing the store to international users. Most tracks have to be cleared by a different licensing authority for each country. [Wired]

Anyone who is very familiar with the video/DVD world is well aware of things like this. I had a feeling that this could end up being a bit of a licensing nightmare for Apple.

Anyone want to buy my Audiotron and 20GB iPod? $525 for the both of them. I’m semi-seriously putting these up for sale to get a 30GB iPod.

Went to see X2 today. It was pretty damn cool. A really good followup to the first movie. Now the wait for the new Matrix movie.

life listed one of want to Well,
after thinking maybe some candy cigarettes for
me. a step in
their mouth. Changmian and I
was a song, is to
go through. toast.
Unlike Zannah, I live
without.

Created by Rob’s Amazing Poem Generator, as seen on The Reverse Cowgirl’s Blog