it’s a dozen! Or only two this time, but still…. Last week the dishwasher started leaking. We’re getting ready to go on vacation, so we’ve just been putting a container under the “water corner” to get by until we get home. Since it’s nearly 20 years old, we weren’t surprised that it was dying, and had already decided what to buy to replace it.
So the last couple of loads, it hasn’t leaked at all. Which is good - because today the refrigerator died! We have an older one downstairs, and two freezers, so we moved stuff for now, and when we get back we’ll get the repairman up here. THEN we’ll decide if we can also afford a dishwasher! Sheesh….
My 13 year old granddaughter’s school trip this year was to a co-ed camp in the Ardèche. She didn’t want to go - was convinced she would hate it (not an unlikely reaction considering not only her age but the fact that family vacations for them are generally to fairly upscale hotels in Austria). Her parents insisted she go which occasioned the usual tantrums etc. But off she went on the bus with the rest of the class - to be gone a week.
She came home tired, hungry, and with a cold. She loved it. She hopes they go back next year. Kids….
only took two days. Why those who construct themes claim they validate to XHTML 1.0 Transitional when they quite obviously do NOT, I will never understand. The stuff I had to fix in each theme was inherent in the “vanilla” distro - it was NOT something I added in with plugins or otherwise with tweaks, so this rests squarely on the theme originators’ shoulders.
Next up: validate it all to XHTML 1.0 Strict. Yes, I’m aware it’s not “required”. But y’know what? Doing so forces one to write spotless, minimal html and css. A good thing….
and has been for months now. We got snow again a couple of days ago, for instance. I’m talking May 10th - it snowed all day, then froze overnight. Got a couple or three inches. Just WEIRD. Of course, I’d just as soon it never got to be summer anyway, but snow this time of year is pretty whacked….
seems to have gone off without a hitch of any sort. Would be the first time in history I upgraded something and it worked right first time! Too many times the upgrade procedure for a program is incredibly difficult….
and every theme has to be validated separately, there’s no such thing as an overall “it works” setup….
and I’m NOT ranting because they’re still in use, either!
As it happens, I’m one of those people who, when she first hit a site that was done with frames, jumped up and down screaming “Finally someone got it RIGHT!” Unfortunately, since then frames have become one of those extremely useful, usable things that are denigrated, despised, and finally, deprecated. Well, I’m sorry, but frames still make a site and its navigation easy to use. The only reasons I can see for making frames the despised stepchildren of the Internet are these dual, oft repeated rationales:
1. You can’t bookmark a framed site. [Bunk - of course you can. It’s very easy - you simply right click inside the frame you want to bookmark. Even a child of five can do this.]
2. Search engines can’t find framed sites, therefore your rankings will suffer. Unfortunately, this is true. However, seems to me the logic fails here: instead of knuckling under to the SEs, why didn’t the Internet community force the SEs to figure it out? Sheer silliness, not to mention stupidity. A really bad idea to live and die by what SEs think is the way to do things….
In any case, I no longer am comfortable “framing” my sites. While I don’t live and die for traffic of any kind, I do try to fit within the mold of a person who designs sites to current standards - which isn’t true if I frame them up, is it? *SIGH* Frames and the navigation one uses with same make so much more sense than the idiocies that abound any more….
