I am l33t! Smell my funk!

Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do. The client loves the website. All I have are a few minor changes, but what I really need to do now is get her code under CVS control, and then much will be well. I'm a big fan of CVS control, although I don't use it enough when I'm writing. I should. Can you imagine what the Changelog for a story would look like, though?

2006-05-02 17:17  elfs

        * 03261_181_Honest_Impulse_C08.txt: Finally figured out how to get Shandy and Linia into bed.

Yeah, that'd look wonderful. Actually, there's a lot of metadata about a story that I should start to capture more seriously.

I've figured out how to use Scriptaculous, and written extensions to the Ajax.Updater() class to allow for the updating of multiple on-screen elements with a single XML payload, thus making monitoring pages without any accursed Java in them very possible. Having one general-purpose language interpreter in the browser is enough, but two is one too many. If you write HTML and you haven't seen Scriptaculous, you have no clue what you're missing.

And now the bad news: my beloved laptop Kusanagi is already dying after only three months. The video card is acting as if it's received either heat or electrical damage; the screen will go completely white with no chance of recovery. Sometimes, it comes back, but it's not reliable. I think it's heat, as it seems to stop if the machine is given a long chance to rest.

And Star One is one of Arjen Lucassen (aka Ayreon)'s side projects. At first, I thought it was his typical mix of cheesy 1970's sci-fi themes, incredible studio talent, power guitars and amazing production values until I realized that the song I'm listening to right now (High Moon) is even cheesier than most: it's a rock-opera retelling of the 1981 sci-fi bomb Outland, the Peter Hyams/Sean Connery vehicle, making it cheese about cheese! I feel so meta.