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2003-09-15 22:13 UTC You may now sacrifice virgins to ensure there are no last call comments

This past weekend was quite a significant weekend for personal reasons, but of more interest to you, is the fact that The CSS2.1 Last Call Working Draft has been published! (announcement)

Some of the major changes to look at:

For those of you who doubt that there have been many changes between CSS2 and CSS2.1, and think that the working group was just slow, it may be educational to look at the diff marked version. Look at chapter 9, for instance.

Oh, and GwieF was most amused that I managed to get his name into the spec. Tee-hee!

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2003-09-07 20:42 UTC X is always for Xylophone

There are certain things that are quite obviously bad ideas, things that will obviously quickly cascade out of control.

For example, introducing a linguist to magnetic poetry.

I don't know who is to blame, but whoever it is deserves a good talking to. It should have been obvious what would happen!

Alphabet Soup: They end up getting so many sets that you end up with tangible piles of words.

Someone really needs to go through these and put them in alphabetical order. I mean, trying to write anything is nearly impossible just because you spend so long looking through the pile to find the word you want that you end up forgetting what you were trying to write in the first place. And that's no good.

2003-08-27 20:07 UTC Horrah!

CSS2.1: Outstanding issues.

0 issues total remaining
issues for bert: 0
issues for tantek: 0
issues for working group discussion: 0
issues for hakon: 0
issues for ian: 0

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2003-08-26 17:19 UTC There are no hidden messages

Life's not a song...

Dinner yesterday hit a CSS working group record: Four laptops, an ethernet cable with DHCP, FTP, and HTTP servers on the end of it, a wireless network, a flash card, a GPRS connection, some SMS communication, and a bluetooth network with three bluetooth enabled-phones and a bluetooth-enabled laptop. At least one device was overtaxed and had to visit the doctor the next day.

Life is not bliss;

We will finish CSS2.1.

We will finish CSS2.1.

We will finish CSS2.1.

Life is just this:

Incidentally, pictures from the last Dominion event are up now. There aren't any real good pictures showing that the venue was a cave, though. Oh well.

It's living.

2003-08-24 17:53 UTC Geeks

Friday I went to Dominion. That's a Goth-themed club, although their venue apparently varies. Friday's venue was a cave, which gave it a very appropriate ambiance.

As the theme was Gothic, many of the people wore black clothing. I don't think it had the intended effect on me. I'm a larper (a live-action roleplayer), and in larps, everyone wears black clothing under their costumes, so that they can easily switch character simply by changing their overalls. For example you might throw on a green tabbard and be a peasant, or you might put on an orange cloak and be a druid.

So I generally consider black clothing to be underwear.

Actually, there were quite a few larpers there. In fact, everyone there was a geek of some sort. I met some interesting people.

I also took some interesting pictures. Or rather, I took pictures of interesting scenes. The pictures themselves aren't too interesting. You see, unfortunately, the cave was very dimly lit, so most of the pictures look like big expanses of black with small bright dots clustered around slightly less black expanses. Eira took some much better pictures, but that's because she cheated. She used a flash.

Of course that meant that every time she took a picture, the people she photographed were left blind for several minutes afterwards. Cecilie explained to me that this is how people who go to Dominion events expect to hook up. Basically the blinding effect of the flash has much the same effect as alcohol. You no longer see how ugly the people you are talking to are.

This theory would also explain why people start to complain if Eira doesn't take enough photos at Dominion events.

Today I got up early to get to the airport in time to receive Tantek and David. This week is one of our quarterly CSS Working Group face to face meetings. I have one goal for this meeting.

Finishing the CSS2.1 last call working draft.

If we don't finish this draft, I'm going to— we will finish this draft. The work starts tonight, with a CSS2.1 Editors meeting. In fact as we speak Tantek is fixing his pending changes.

Earlier we went on Håkon's boat, the 404 Not Found. This time there was more wind than the last time I went, so being dragged along was a bit more effort. Lots of fun though!

Excitement abounded when we nearly lost Tantek as the cord he was leaning against snapped and he went crashing into the fjord. Thankfully quick reactions from everyone except me resulted in a quick rescue. (It really was everyone except me. I heard a splash and looked to my left to find out what it was. Not seeing anything, I turned to my right and discovered Tantek trailing outside the boat, holding on to a dangling rope, being helped up by Jim.)

We stopped for lunch on what I call Rabbit Island, an island in the Oslo fjord that is overrun by rabbits. I have lots of photos of the rabbits that I took last time I was there, but I'm sure you've all seen rabbits before, so I won't bore you with that.

Now we're lounging about at Håkon's. Daniel stepped up as cook, so we're going to have some Saumon à la Daniel. It smells nice.

Geeks At Play (or is it work? hard to tell): Everyone sat down and got their laptops.

Bon Appetit!