Skipped a beat
March 6, 2007
Today while I was browsing for a picture to be used as background, I laughed myself off when I came upon this image. I mean, what the heck?!
Now on to today's post…
CSS
Cascading Style Shit…
I'm temporarily taking back what I've said earlier. Conversation is possible.
I never thought doing a CSS document can be a headache. I thought I was used to CSS but when I was asked to edit CSS by someone I experienced an acute case of amnesia where my mind suddenly became flooded with questions that I all knew to well what the answers are but I can't seem to remember at that moment. Questions like what was the syntax of this again, or what was the name of that attribute again? Couple that with element IDs that I'm alien with.
Normally I would reject requests like this but this is special. It was a request from her.
I took me about half an hour or so to get my act up and began the somewhat tedious process of editing the CSS for her friendster account. Goes to show how rusty my web-building skills have became eh? Anyway, took me about an hour to completely finish the entire CSS document.
What took most of the time is the background as it was left to my discretion with only cute as the keyword given to me. It was during this time that I came about the picture above which left me laughing for about 10 minutes or so before regaining the ability to continue with my search. With a lot of NSFW entries I decided to just create a background of my own using pictures I already have in my PC. This was a first for me too -image clean-up
Doing a clean-up of an image for processing is time-consuming but it was a lot of fun, it's been a while since I used Adobe Photoshop.
With that done I decided to finally try out the code and to my disappointment, Friendster doesn't seem to recognize CSS2. What the heck?! It doesn't seem to recognize "filter: alpha(opacity=60)" and all those other CSS code that would make it look a lot better than non-CSS-familiar people. Disappointing as it may be, I left it as it is, version 1.0, and plan to do another edit of it for a CSS-only friendster tomorrow if time permits.
All in all it was a fun experience. I get to review my CSS, reviewed my PS CS and most of all I did something of use to her.
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I know…
but I will not stop
I have confirmed that she has read this blog. This blog of mine which serves as an outlet for my thougths ranging from the sensible to the random and mindless to my rants and even to the seemingly profane -all of them. Will this stop me? No.
I'm actually happy when I discovered it since through this blog, I somehow managed to convey this suppressed feelings of mine though her reading these thoughts was unforseen. Also I can show her who I really am.
I have been living a life full of lies and I guess it's about time that I'd be more honest with myself and this blog will serve as a reminder of that.
I guess this is what you call a "resolution" to an identity crisis is. Though I'm not fully aware of it yet, I am slowly but surely discovering who I really am and what I really want in life is. It's like walking aimlessly in a forest then suddenly picking up a guide of some sort.
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If you are reading this, I hope my feelings has been conveyed. Please take care always.
