ghost in the glass

Unhappiness = Snow, cold, wading through same up to my thighs, unshoveled sidewalks, sketchy delayed and re-routed buses, and working late so that I get to make the return trip in the dark. I've opted to do it again tomorrow (I'd rather face late night streets in the dark when it might not have frozen solid again yet rather than early morning streets in the dark when it's DEFINITELY frozen solid.)

But Happiness is a well designed program, by which I mean that my favorite Just A Text Editor for Mac (Bean) has decided to take exception to opening any .html file that's been touched by a web browser lately. This is making me unnecessarily unhappy, so today I went looking for a better text editor and/or HTML editor.

Enter Smultron (yes, my fingers keep wanting to type Smutron) which is Leopard compliant but unfortunately isn't being developed any more, although the creator put out a Snow Leopard Beta before abandoning it. Coming highly recommended, Smultron is small, free, runnable from a thumb drive, has tabbed multi-open-file windows, line numbers, color sorted code, will flash to tell you where your open and closed brackets are in relation to each other, has a drop down menu to tell you what line number your div ids start (in html) or where your functions are (in css stylesheets), will preview (complete with functioning javascript) right in the text editor, keystroke commands for closing tags or going to specific line numbers or indenting blocks of code for easier readability, and is all around a very spiffy and shiny text editor for a hand coder. THIS is what I want. Not Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWIG or things to make it "easier" so that you "don't have to know the code". PFFFFT. I WANT to know the code! And I want to be able to view it and edit it easily. [pets new program] I think I found my new best web designing friend.

In other news I finished my paper on mySQL databases. In the process I discovered that I know more about the subject from mucking about installing and uninstalling Wordpress blogs than I thought I did - enough so that it was once again a game of "go find an official citation to back up what I already know" and "dumb it down to the class level instead of going off into technobabble". grrrargh. v_v

...your workday is going so obnoxiously badly that you console yourself by tackling reading through a tutorial for how to create a Wordpress theme from scratch. Because this is your HAPPY PLACE.

* Coded an entire page (three column, lots of floats, tons of divs) from scratch, in textpad, in 4 hours (and made it for assignment deadline). Those multiple repeats of gutting and recoding the CSS of Wordpress styles have paid off!

* Migrated My-First-Sock from DPNs to a circular magic loop. I've never had problem with ladders before on DPNs until knitting the gusset on a sock. x_x NTS, start on DPNs and switch to magic loop after the gusset is picked up. Also? Never trust craft store brand needles. v_v The size 2 DPNs and size 2 circular from the same brand were NOT the same size. Like bloody hell they were the same size. Now knitting on a slightly larger gauge. ARGH.

* Re-did my glasmalerei layout after stealing the header graphic from my totally unused Vox layout because I liked it. And hey, it matches the Dreamwidth red layout. ^_^