(Past) Misadventures in CCS & HTML

This guy's been around awhile but after finding his site again and laughing at a re-post of one of his old posts well, I just had to post the link -- Notmydesk.com

In fact, I'll even go so far as to clip-n-whore a little of what he sez, but just cos it's cute, not cos I want to steal all his money or anything. Uh, he doesn't actually have any money anyway. This is witty:

3/3/00

What's new? Well, this website, for one. Yes, I have joined the elite group of absolutely everyone on the planet and gotten my own website. Despite the fact that I have no web-publishing skills to speak of, after only three days of constant toiling I have managed to publish a number of blank pages.

These pages are lovingly rendered with nothing, the graphics, of which there are none, are not present. The text, after much debate, has been presented in the delicately ornate Junior Helvetia Brush Script Minor font, sized for optimum readability, tested against several backgrounds, then omitted completely. Speaking of backgrounds, initial focus groups voted unanimously that they did not actually exist, but if they did, they would certainly prefer a plain white background.

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I wrote those words exactly five years ago, and in a lot of ways, they still ring true today. I still have no web-publishing skills, there are many missing pages, links don't work, graphics are absent, and promises of new content still spill from my keyboard with alarming regularity yet little chance of ever being realized.

Thank God fame hasn't changed me.


I have this burning urge to use this as a reference link in my resume now! I just want to make it clear to all these assmonkeys I'm begging for work from that I have NO marketable skills. No sir! I'd like to thank the Academy and that useless university I wasted three years of my life at ...

Sa-weet,

-- Mz M.