Monday, July 29, 2002

If Radio allowed backdating of posts, I'd stamp this post for about 10 days ago. On our recent Ojai trip, we decided against staying in the wonderful but pricey Ojai Vally Inn www.ojairesort.com , and instead opted for a B&B that looked good on the web and was more reasonably priced. We settled on the Emerald Iguana Inn www.emeraldiguana.com (at least the domain name was easy to secure). It was, in a word, fantastic. I've stayed all over the world, and this place was as nice a getaway as I've seen. Lush grounds, great suites, comfortable furnishings, a magical atmosphere at night - really quite the unexpected find. Highly recommended if you're going to Ojai. comment []5:09:05 PM

Added two new features to ASVL - the "Email Me" link and the "Open Links in New Window" checkbox. Former works, latter doesn't. My site construction abilities suck, though I'm working on it. The few people who really know me and know about this blog probably wonder why I'm trying to do page design/construction at my advanced age. Truth is, it has felt bad for a while to be a technology consultant/advisor with purely abstract knowledge. I haven't "gotten my hands dirty" for a very long time. I think my ability to see and explain the "big picture" to clients was degrading due to this lack of experience at the bottom of the digital food chain. Maybe it won't help, but I hope to have a more credible basis for my advice by learning some basics in web construction. comment []5:01:01 PM

More bad news from The Firm today. Seems the Board decided that they had to renege on the previously announced stock price (private firm, internal trading, long story...see www.fed.org if you're interested). Market conditions are the public reason, though I have to believe it's purely an oversubscription problem. This is a very slippery slope. Once employees get the idea that the rules in a privately-traded stock are "flexible", their confidence has to go down, and the selling will increase (again). Not good news for those of us with too much net worth tied up in The Firm. comment []4:52:54 PM

It's Monday, and I'm back at work..sort of. These days work means marketing and networking, now problem solving. I can't say I enjoy it as much. To deal with the problem solving jones, I'm digging in website design and finally learning enough to read and write raw HTML. I've found that's necessary to be able to understand the pages that Radio produces for this site. While the basic site is nice, there are some simple tweaks I'd like to be able to do that require HTML and XML literacy. From there, I *might* move on to Radio macros - though I'm at least as likely to change horse and go the Movable Type www.movabletype.org direction. MT sites always seems a little classier, a little bit better designed, than other weblogs, IMHO. There's something about the tool and the people using it. comment []4:20:02 PM

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