All You Should Read

1. Moving sucks in the US.
2. Some people seem to be under the impression that I’m trying to portray myself as a web designer, who seems to have the right to give bad criticism about their website - and disagree. Fiercely. By calling me names.

Lemme tellya sumtin’: I’m a developer (and my boss pays me to do just that: develop. I haven’t been laid off or demoted yet, so I must know what the fuck I’m doing, I suppose), and I never claimed to be a designer (in fact, on several occasions it’s the first thing I admit before explaining why I think something shouldn’t be done.)

But here’s the thing: just because I’m not a designer doesn’t mean I don’t have an eye for aesthetics, and when code is wrong (ugly, non-compliant, incorrect, bloated, crap like that), well, now… that has nothing to do with design - that’s the development part… the part I am well-versed and seasoned in. Yes, I do know what the fuck I’m talking about code-wise, but if I were an actual designer, d’ya think I’d stick with a slightly modified version of a ready-made WordPress template?

And just because you’re not pleased with the way my stuff looks (which doesn’t hurt me in the slightest, because I didn’t create it, myself), that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to make things work, or that my opinion on the use of certain “tools” isn’t valid.

Which is a nice segue for my next post, coming to a monitor near you soon:

Biggest Crimes In Web Design: People Who Use Microsoft Office To Create Web Pages Should Be Shot Dead.

So my Windows 2000/Apache server broke, and I have no access to my PHP DEV box. Which sucks. What sucks more is that the replacement machine I have doesn’t even want to start - most probably a memory issue.

Plus I got myself a new keyboard (a Logitech, on the cheap), which…

… has a VERY big DELETE key, that sits in the same place my old keyboard’s HOME key was situated…
… has no Scroll-Lock key, rendering my KVM useless.

Right now, I’m very frustrated (I also sprained my back while moving crap around to make room for the replacement server on my desk), so for everyone’s sanity and well-being I’ll refrain from answering questions over there. I’ll also refrain from doing anything over here until I get stuff working again, and I’ve gotten used to the new keyboard. That, or I’m gonna get a new one.

Seriously, what is with the ever-shrinking keys and weird layouts of new keyboards?

Give me one of them ole IBM ram-pads any time.