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LazyScot · 08-12-2008, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

I thought they invented it. Maybe that's why they're angry - it was meant to be a viral soul-eater, and humankind took to it in joy like ducks to chocolate. Success...but not the kind of success the Great Old Ones were hoping for.

Almost. You don't work for MoM do you? Except you got it backwards. Well, pan-dimensionally sideways.

I think I'd better explain things. Tomorrow. Hopefully. If an avatar doesn't get me first.

montsnmags · 08-12-2008, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

Almost. You don't work for MoM do you?

Well, I haven't let the American lexicon take away my family yet, so we still call it MuM.

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Except you got it backwards. Well, pan-dimensionally sideways.

Pan-dimensionally sideways is where I live. It's everywhere you wanna be, baby!

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I think I'd better explain things. Tomorrow. Hopefully. If an avatar doesn't get me first.

Why so serious?

Cheers,
Marc ("Some people call me the space cowboy...")

badgoodDeb · 08-12-2008, 08:14 PM

Morris?? Is that you, babe?

zelda_pinwheel · 08-12-2008, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

Sure some Myspace pages are bad. But then again you stumble upon something like this:

http://www.myspace.com/jimmbay1

i can always count on you, madam b.

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

I don't click on any MySpace link, ever, because I have yet to come across a single MySpace webpage (including those designed by "professionals" for major bands, for instance), that didn't make me want to reach through the screen to tear out the eyes and corkscrew the ears of those responsible. Well, I don't unless someone like Madame Broshkina links to one...in which case I should know better, but do anyway, and then regret it.

Cheers,
Marc

the myspace experience, in a nutshell.

nekokami · 08-12-2008, 08:44 PM

In my current job I'm responsible for the technical aspects of a website for one college unit at a university. There is a "Tech Committee" which is supposed to "advise" me in developing it. Apparently they want me to switch to a fixed-width style, rather than the elastic one I've been slaving over to get just right for a couple of months (off and on). Because that's what "other colleges" use.

JSWolf · 08-12-2008, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

In my current job I'm responsible for the technical aspects of a website for one college unit at a university. There is a "Tech Committee" which is supposed to "advise" me in developing it. Apparently they want me to switch to a fixed-width style, rather than the elastic one I've been slaving over to get just right for a couple of months (off and on). Because that's what "other colleges" use.

Tell them to go jump in a fixed width lake. Don't they know they are trying to get you to do something that's so yesterday?

nekokami · 08-13-2008, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Tell them to go jump in a fixed width lake. Don't they know they are trying to get you to do something that's so yesterday?

Apparently not. I need some examples of business schools that use elastic width formatting to show them.

Or I could wave a copy of Jakob Neilsen's Usability Engineering and shout passages to try to exorcise them of this nonsense... equally unlikely to work, but it sounds like more fun, at least.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-13-2008, 11:32 AM

maybe you could also throw the book at their head, in hopes that some sense might penetrate by osmosis (if you throw it hard enough...).

BookishDreamer · 08-13-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

maybe you could also throw the book at their head, in hopes that some sense might penetrate by osmosis (if you throw it hard enough...).

I'm all aghast! Queen Zee is promoting physical violence against university personnel? Esteemed professors and administrators?

Oh, wait...never mind...I've threatened to throw things at university staff before too, so I shouldn't be shocked. I used to hate those committee meetings with the college president, especially when I wanted to change something that had been her pet project for years and she couldn't see that it needed to be updated. Misoneism ran rampant on campus.

Wish I could help you, neko. I just looked up the website for the college of business at my local university and it's fixed width.

Dreamer

GeoffC · 08-13-2008, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

Wish I could help you, neko. I just looked up the website for the college of business at my local university and it's fixed width.

Dreamer

obviously not a flexible syllabus...

Sparrow · 08-13-2008, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

maybe you could also throw the book at their head, in hopes that some sense might penetrate by osmosis (if you throw it hard enough...).

One reason there will always be pbooks - ammunition.
I'd never dream of throwing my Cybook at anyone

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zelda_pinwheel · 08-13-2008, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

One reason there will always be pbooks - ammunition.
I'd never dream of throwing my Cybook at anyone

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exactly, nor would i throw my eb1150. but a pbook, no worries. i hear they are also useful for propping doors open.

GeoffC · 08-13-2008, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

One reason there will always be pbooks - ammunition.
I'd never dream of throwing my Cybook at anyone

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i don't have mine to even think of throwing it....

slayda · 08-13-2008, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

I'm all aghast! Queen Zee is promoting physical violence against university personnel? Esteemed professors and administrators?

Oh, wait...never mind...I've threatened to throw things at university staff before too, so I shouldn't be shocked. I used to hate those committee meetings with the college president, especially when I wanted to change something that had been her pet project for years and she couldn't see that it needed to be updated. Misoneism ran rampant on campus.

Wish I could help you, neko. I just looked up the website for the college of business at my local university and it's fixed width.

Dreamer

Doesn't this make them guilty of "width fixing"?

GeoffC · 08-13-2008, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by slayda

Doesn't this make them guilty of "width fixing"?

better than the length....

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08-12-2008, 08:14 PM	#1068
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Morris?? Is that you, babe?

08-12-2008, 08:44 PM	#1070
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	In my current job I'm responsible for the technical aspects of a website for one college unit at a university. There is a "Tech Committee" which is supposed to "advise" me in developing it. Apparently they want me to switch to a fixed-width style, rather than the elastic one I've been slaving over to get just right for a couple of months (off and on). Because that's what "other colleges" use.

08-13-2008, 11:32 AM	#1073
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	maybe you could also throw the book at their head, in hopes that some sense might penetrate by osmosis (if you throw it hard enough...).