yippee it’s friday. yea for friday.

friday is probably the best day in the world ever because you know that in a couple of hours, freedom from the shackles of desk in grey world will be bestowed as a gift. not that i have a problem with the grey world like i used to. i know my time here is finite, so it doesn’t bother me so much anymore. also, we are “between loads” so i am not that busy.

this weekend i am heading to Cork. I hope to find some new loos for the loo review. one is a bit pathetic really. i just haven’t used any public loos other than the one at work recently. how sad is that. it just prooves that i haven’t been out and about. reason: stinky head cold that is slurking towards my chest. other reason: my new total addiction to the sims. saddo that i am i stayed up til 0100hrs one night playing the game. unheard of for “laura-in-bed-and-asleep-before-eleven”.

wierdness of the week was yesterdays blackout in london.. I like what they are blaming.

elsewhere, earlier in the week there was talk of “tories would shut down BBCs news website.” the register has written an interesting article about this.

happy weekend.

i probably shouldn’t do this. but what the heck.

it’s my birthday soon. if anyone would LOVE to get me a birthday present, then may i direct your attention to the side bar…… there is a section there called “Coveted Goods”. If you click on the Amazon wishlist you will see things I would love. Amazon will even deliver them to me.

On the amazon subject, i did get a refund for my broken toy camera so they are my friends again!!

This morning kottke wrote, “Standards don’t necessarily have anything to do with being semantically correct”. he linked to dave shea who also posted a piece on css.

the two of them seem to think they are some sort of css evangelists. we’re so cool because we don’t use the font tag or the table tag.

kottke posted:

Tables: for data only
Back in the glory days of the Web, designers exploited the table tag to create grid-based designs…. Use tables for data only (think spreadsheets). Should you come in contact with someone using tables for presentation, firmly reprimand them and point them to this guide.

But do a view on the source of his main index.html and it’s tables galore up at the top. Hello!!! Is the banner really data??

CSS1 has been around since 1996. Even microsoft frontpage has had some support for it since 1998. The font tag is a bit daft. We know this. Way too much information to be mixed up in a html tag. I don’t get all the current talk about CSS. It is what anyone with a brain would want to use. It is what anyone requiring flexibility would want to use. I wish they’d shut up about CSS.