Semi-Productive Weekend
I spent a good portion of the day at churches. First, the beautiful Polish Church downtown, an astounding glossy wood design. It made nice reflections of stained glass of off my glasses. Unfortunately, the camera didn't quite capture the saturation, the colours. Then, I thought my grandfather might enjoy seeing the cathedral downtown. It's amazing how the whole thing is built from wood. It really gives the pipe organ a unique sound that you don't get into a church built from rock. The organ must have at least 200 registers. I thought that would be a real bitch to set, until I saw the organist slide open a drawer, enter a number into a keypad within. At tat point all the registers reset, and then quickly set themselves to a preset pattern. That is a really neat modern add-on to this old organ.

The rest of the day was devoted to the EngFrosh site. Unfortunately, I gave in and converted my purely DIV-driven design into one that uses the forbidden table with a height of 100%. I think the conclusion I can draw is that while CSS is great for a consistent look in lengthy documents, a graphical-artsy type of design still benefits from classic HTML elements, especially when Mozilla and IE react completely differently to the styles. My design still passes HTML 4.01 Transitional, so it's not all bad. The evening was spent producing hand-drawn designs to populate the pirates theme, including various ornaments to decorate the site with an authentic ink and paper feel.

The quote of the week, yelled at me by a co-worker, is: "No one's ever thrown USB mass storage at me before!"