ita, hope this recovery isn't as grueling.
So, got word on some significant reordering at work. New boss is going to be the person I replaced, plus they're moving back into the group someone I work with closely as my contractor boss. All in all, probably the least disruptive for us change, though I think there might be some ruffled feathers from the groups getting left. (Both women are great to work with/for.)
What's funny is that I went to lunch with the lot of them just before the message was sent out and was lamenting to them about my boss retiring and not knowing who would replace him. I had no idea the new boss would be interested in being that!
Barb, if it's any consolation, in the future when a doctor asks when she started, it'll be a memorable date.
Barb, if it's any consolation, in the future when a doctor asks when she started, it'll be a memorable date.
Provided they believe me!
Speaking of which -- why in 2010 can't all browsers render all punctuation marks at all times? Why is this still an issue? A dash should not break things!
Where's the dash coming from? If it's from somewhere outside of the standards set by ISO, that'd be why.
Laziness and ignorance on the part of web developers, combined with overly complicated, esoteric rules about how browsers choose the character set, and a lot of legacy tools that don't work properly.
This is about my speed for April Fool's. From today's e-mail:
May is National Historic Preservation Month. The Georgia Trust and Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia DNR (HPD) present the Georgia Preservation Month Lecture Series, where speakers will focus on the benefits of going green. Guest speakers include Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, the Incredible Hulk, and Gumby. Special appearances will be made by Shrek and the Jolly Green Giant, who will discuss how they have made being green into successful careers.
Also, Book View Cafe [link] is featuring its zombie authors.
Well, I almost always use chrome. I see lots semicolons, dashes and quotes that aren't rendered correctly on different sites but the only site I consistently remember is the "print this" page on NYMag, i.e.: [link]
combined with overly complicated, esoteric rules about how browsers choose the character set
About EVERYTHING to do with your browser.
For that matter.
Boy howdy.
People who are not my fb friends, or missed it. Hubby is Bartender of the Month
Fuckyeah!
Get healed up, ita.
Emmett's writing about Jimmy Carter, sprawled on his belly in his baseball uni. He's got to wrap it up so we can get to practice and I can take his stuff to a cafe and type it up.
If people would just use UTF-8 everywhere, it wouldn’t be a problem. But for a place with a workflow like the NYT, there are probably at least a dozen places where the character encoding could possibly get screwed up along the line.
