Note To Shelf
I have no idea what happened to me today. I was outgoing, cheerful, quick-thinking, peppy, in the zone, marginally oblivious of people's opinions of me.

I almost felt like me.

But I've had moods like that before, and though this feels slightly larger and seems to have a dash more staying power, I'm always afraid that I might lose the other half of me; the half that is still, quiet, observant, introspective, innocent. Maybe, however, those qualities of mine were never truly a great part of my personality, but more the result of being inhibited.

Let's hope I'm manic, so I can be both. *glee* O

Group Theory
I never really expected to have good times with a large group of people (10+) as a whole and still have personal interaction with each of them. Actually quite good. O

Causality
With the ever-increasing amount of space on the team's server taken up by mp3 files, only a single course of action can be taken:

Grab it and run. O

Hard
The simple act of telling someone to shut the hell up because it's driving you nuts. O

And Cetera
Hedenmorgen bezit ik een redelijk groot verlangen naar een bescheiden hoeveelheid poezie.

This morning I find myself in posession of a fairly massive desire for a modest amount of poetry. O

History Repeating
Real Cool.
Real Cool exists.
Real Cool is honest.
Real Cool does not pretend.
Real Cool does not pose.
Real Cool exists as itself.
Real Cool is sure of its goals and its means.
Real Cool fears nothing
Real Cool needs nothing.
Real Cool claims nothing.
Real Cool destroys nothing.
Real Cool creates what is required.
Real Cool is unstoppable.
Real Cool is not influenced.
Real Cool always loves.
Real Cool hates nothing.

Wait...childhood memory coming into the light...

Fido is for Fido.
Fido is against no one.
Fido is youth.
Fido has no age.
Fido sees everything.
Fido judges nothing.
Fido is innocent.
Fido is powerful.
Fido comes from the past.
Fido is the future.

It would appear the amount of subconscious influence I've had as a child/teenager is larger than I thought. O

Watch That
Here's the situation:

My mother had lots of TV-trouble, and the emergency-TV had no VCR-capabilities.

She received a gift from my sister and her husband for babysitting my two little nephews: a super-duper new TV.

A relatively large number of videos had accumulated, itching to be watched.

The only possible outcome: movie-weekend at Home. O

Stop
It was powerful enough to halt my thoughts and motions even while posessing the momentum of fast, clear, decisive action. O

WriWriWriMo
One second you're two hundred words from your word goal and wonder how to fill up the gap, and a few minutes and a pretty and detailed description later, you've cleared it by three hundred.

I love that. O

So There
And where can you be totally naked and completely clothed at the exact same time, but on the internet? O

Tithole*
We have teams at school. I'm part of such a team. The client of the last project we finished was BT, British Telecom. The teams make actual products for actual customers and will actually be used by the client, if it's good enough.

BT wanted a digital browser thingy with a pleasant interface for customers to replace the stack of paper documents they normally use. It also required an editor to allow BT to add the documents, create a folder and brun the whole package on a CD.

Four teams were on the job. Our team won. Yay.


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Style Schmyle
I always thought I was kinda stylish with my cool Garamond header, Book Antiqua titles and my black-on-wite, borderless textual layout.

But, there's always the bigger serif. —Fish, I mean. I'm just a bit jealous, is all (although it probably looks much better on an OS that supports type antialiasing, like XP, which I'm using, and OSX). O

What?
There's a world of difference between the questions Why and Howcome.

Howcome is causality. It simply is the way it is, and steers people in certain directions.
Why implies a reason, and, moreover, control and understanding of the situation.

Often, I get asked Why but I have no answer to it because I forget to translate the question to Howcome. Just as often, I have no reason for things — they just happen. O

Said Bro
It's amazing how experiencing something that is absolutely Beautiful is so very divine. O

Twentytwoday

Older and older. A bit wiser and wiser. A little bit. O

Decode
We have a problem.
CSS property values aren't loaded into JavaScript. How terribly annoying. How am I supposed to check for the display state of an element then? Or its background color? Because they load as empty strings by default. I know there are read-only properties, but set-only properties?

Unless there's a way to get the proper values the browser has assigned to the elements, I'm going to have to break up my general-purpose showHide(id) function into showFromHide(id) and hideFromShow(id), each time assuming the display state of an element is block or none. O

Hold On To
It will never fully go away, but it can diminish to the point where you can say: 'No, I cannot pursue this anymore,' and not feel bad about it.

The possibilities or problems arise when it won't diminish, let alone go away. Not to mention what happens when it increases. O

Peace Out
The arrival of a small, handsome, eggshaped timer has brought much rest into my kitchen. O

Fait
I'm amused that, after inventing a successful businessman character named Dirk, the same day I read a newspaper article about a successful businessman named Dirk.
I'm amused that, after doubting my writing and discipline abilities for a moment, I read an article about a writer who talks about how she writes, and gives the advice: "Do not give up!" O

Jing

Murw. O