I’m sitting here at a linux workstation in nordeast minneapolis, pondering whether or not I should pay attention to the Little Things on this site.
Such as, grammar and punctuation, which I’ve usually been a stickler about, but for all intents & purposes is kind of irrelevant to my current set of interests.
Do people actually care if I capitalize proper nouns correctly when they’re reading my posts? Or is it delusional for me to think that anyone out there is actually paying attention?
Will this be on the Final Exam, is what I’m trying to say? And what about prospective employers? Will they think less of me if my blog is not 100% serious in tone and isn’t written in a style straight from Strunk & White’s Elements of Style?
Because I think I don’t care enough any more. But on the other hand, I still want to post. I just don’t want people to think that if I miss a few capital letters here and there, or forget an apostrophe, that I’m trolling, or that I don’t care, because I do.
But more on that later.
A more urgent issue is this site’s theme. As noted, I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0, and I stuck with the default theme for now, because I’m primarily looking for ways to convey ideas through text, and don’t really care about how the page is formatted, except that I want it to look reasonably good in most reasonable browsers.
But I’m not writing this for web designers, so if you want to get into a giant flamewar about web standards or tell me that my page looks funny in Opera, well. Look elsewhere.
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It’s my kid sister’s birthday today. I didn’t get her anything except for a card that will inevitably be mailed out later than anticipated, but it’s the thought that counts, right?
We’re taking her out for dinner next week to actually celebrate. Hopefully by then I’ll have thought of a gift.
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I’m using some characters on this website that might render a little bit funky in other computers. So if it just looks like blank spaces or empty boxes where you think words should appear, that’s why.
If you want the full effect, you should try browsing the site from an Ubuntu workstation with all the fonts installed. It’s pretty fun to have access to Byzantine Musical Symbols if I want or Tamil or Braille patterns or the myriad mathematical operators included with Unicode, which is a fancy way of me saying I don’t really know what the heck I’m talking about, but I like what I’m seeing so far.
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One thing that occurs to me is that I’ll probably be using this site to publish my blog recordings in the future, so I might as well test out some of those features pretty soon. So look for blog postings from me in the future that include MP3 recordings of these kinds of nonsensical blatherings. I’m sure you will find them as gratifying as I do.
