E-Musings Mon Immorata

Hey Ho! Helkern's Really Kerning Hell Just another day at the office! Work's piling up but for some reason I'm thinking Friday! Friday! mid-week. Must be the paint smell. Shitty workstation. The paint look's dry but try and move the monitor or the PC around. And you'll find 'em stuck fast. I found that piece of (not) good news the hard way! And ripped the monitor's tiny rubber feet right off. True, the damn screen now's lower. More ergonomical. Ergo...But it's still a pain to move anyhing on the table. Even a stapler left too long decided it wanna stay not go. Actually was testing out this blog-'named tool. Am sick of this eword prefix for everything. Vastly over-rated. Why Helkern? Well to get you to read. Get search engines to index. Just some self-promotion. Am going away to nurse my nicotine needs for a while. May be back later. And then again not. Really must get my web act together. See Ya!!!

Whymper! Whymper! Nope, this post has nothing to do with a tale about Edward Whymper who climbed Switzerland's Matterhorn. But with a client. OK, Rollback time. I consult on Web site development. And one particularly miserly client decided they could cut costs by updating the pages themselves. By modifying pages - originally developed using hand-coding - in Front Page 2000. And guess what? FrontPage broke the page really effectively. But being FrontPage it went on to break every other linked page as well - 45 pages zapped. No banner, no navigation menu. Of course I agreed to fix the site (they're over the barrel). But for a consideration. Natch! Actually the guys I'm consulting with are a right royal pain. These are among the most inefficient Web site developers I have worked with. But then considering the economies of scale (bill in US$ but pay salaries in cents) I suppose they can continue to lurch from one project to the next! Saw a really cool Fireworks-designed site today. Do check it out. You're gonna bet it uses Flash. Nope! Its all 10-11 kB JPEGs.