I forgot to mention it closer to the time, but it’s heartening to see that some websites can take pride in writing proper html markup, and agree with me that just because insanely nested tables may work, it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.

Everything on my own site I do with appropriate stylesheet margins, padding and positioning, instead of the old table crutch. You need to be careful when doing this though, since Internet Explorer’s positioning support is, well, slightly fucked. If you aren’t careful, you’ll end up with something that looks like this. It might well work fine in IE, but if you’re writing the page "for the express purpose of showing me how good i am at building stuff like this," you want to at least make the menus work!

Yesterday was graduation day, but I wasn’t graduating, I was up to stuff. But it’s exactly one year until I feel that it’s wise to own up to the shenanigans on the web - most people ‘know’ what was going on anyway, but whatever it was, I deny all knowledge…

Over the past few years, I’ve got myself into a fairly unique situation. Whilst not holding any particular position of responsibility (or power), I’ve become heavily involved in the policy making, interpretation and general strategy of the student union. But now I think it’s time to stop.

It has got to the point where my involvement in the Union is no longer a hobby or an interest, but it has become a burden. When I spend a typical day glossing over the lack of communication between the president and his webeditor, dodging the marketing manager who is trying to employ me to make up for the webeditor and president’s mutual lack of communication, discussing the ins and outs of club administration to some (foolish) students who wish to take over an abandonded club I used to be involved in, going to a strategy meeting for another club, avoiding that club’s committe meeting but spending that time talking to former students about the first, then listening to a recount of the second, moving on to the discussion of contingency, and the subtle differences between expected and anticipated expenditure, then smoothing over the lack of communication between the webeditor and the president (again, but with the other half of the pair), as well as the webeditors poor attempt at interface design, and also having avoided the attempts to get me on Coucil, House Committee, and enquiries about which sabbatical position I would be running for, then it might be time for a lifestyle change.

So, from the early hours of Wednesday (when I was sitting on my couch mulling it over), I will no longer be involved in non-club activities. I will be a Dramsoc tech, the ICMotorClub webeditor, and not much else.

So in the words of Eric Cartman:
Screw you guys, I’m going home.

A feature that I found out about with my provider is the use of virtual-machine-sub-domains or whatever it’s really called. Basically, for every folder that I have on gravitystorm, I can use that as a machine name, so http://weblog.gravitystorm.co.uk will point to the weblog, which is actually at www.gravitystorm.co.uk/weblog/. Neat, huh?

The only problem being that it screws up all my links, since I used relative urls around the site out of lazyness. Since I’ve said everywhere that my dvds are at href=”/dvd/”, it ends up looking for weblog.gravitystorm.co.uk/dvd/, which is www.gravitystorm.co.uk/weblog/dvd/, which doesn’t exist.

If you went HUH? to the last paragraph, then fine. If you understood it, then you’ve been writing too many webpages.

I’ve not updated this log in a while, for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was created at a time when I had every evening free, with nothing better to do, and I’ve not been in that situation much recently.

I spent ten days at home in Scotland, and I try to avoid spending time on the web when I’m there (ably abbetted by a 33k modem). I then spent ten days heavily involved in the technical side of running a freshers week at my students union, which took up a very large proportion of my time. Finally, I spent a week or so going against my policy of only ranting about things on the web, and actually voiced my opinions in public. Which is a bad thing, but I’ll get on to that later - I have made a decision that will affect most of my ranting, hopefully for the better.

Anyway, I’ll not continue, since nobody reads this anyway.