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Archive for October 2003

boo!

Posted on 10/31/2003

I actually dressed up for Halloween this year…as something other than a vampire, even!
those who know me IRL will already know that I own a very special set of vampire fangs. when I was in college, I had a friend (?! the notorious “evil” Grey…if you know the Jill Sobule song Good […]

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and on top of that…

Posted on 10/27/2003

XSLT should be considered harmful. to my brain, anyway. stupid crap. all I want to do is break a character-delimited element into separate elements. I could do that in 15 seconds in PHP, and god help me, I probably will. I’m just tired of spending hours and hours trying to […]

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there’s never enough time

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no more to say than that. just feeling a little overwhelmed at this moment.

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obliterate city?

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I picked up a copy of SimCity 4 a couple of weeks ago, and have been having much fun…more fun than I’ve had with a video game in a long time. like losing hours of time kind of fun.
and yesterday C. finally discovered the addictive power of SimCity. whoa. potential urban planner […]

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everyone is an accomplice

Posted on 10/24/2003

bq. *In wartime nearly everyone becomes an accomplice.* The huge dislocations, the millions who lose homes and property, are often compensated with the property of those that were forced out. Those who had their homes taken away from them in Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serbs were later given the homes of Serbs who […]

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weird (work-related) question

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I’ve been working with our print publications person to get a better process for the class bulletin. based on my own bootstrapping over the last couple of years, we’ve finally got something that sorta works…. we get a word document which has the correct styles already applied, then I convert to html, then […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.