May 26, 2005

Why didn't I just listen to Elliotte in the first place?

Have you ever had one of those "moments" when you have literally dug so deep down into your mind to try and solve a problem that you literally have reached the point where there is simply nothing left to search through? I mean, there might be brain matter there but this stuff hasn't been so much as fired up and taken out for a Sunday stroll to the end of the driveway much less a weekday commute to work and back. If my last post seemed a little more off the wall than normal??? this would be the reason why... At least I'm assuming as I just re-read what I wrote and I have myself asking "what in the hell is that kid on?" and I know that I'm not on anything!

Actually I think I may have been on something... and that something... I think... was that point you reach where you have simply decided that the blank screen staring back at you when it should be filled with colors, shapes, and text-a-plenty could actually be the invisible figure of your computer's gloating face taking in his/her "oh so sweet victory" as it seems that this time around he/she has actually and finally found a way to defeat you... but thats not the worst part. Oh know, it gets worse...

How? By the fact that by the time you reach the front door with keys in hand and pints of tequila on your mind, having simply blown off the day as completely and totally useless you actually think to yourself:

"Oh no... Oh no, No, NO! He/She's not going to beat me this time... Oh HELLLLLL NO!!!! Not this time, not now... that's it!!! This time He/She has gone too far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And you honestly and truly believe those words. Even if for only a fraction of a second, this point is proven by the fact that you have actually turned back towards the office, thrown the keys down so hard there a chance, you think to yourself, you've actually "chipped" the carpet (or possibly the cat 8|) and in a moment of close-but-not-close-enough rage of fury come after your computer thinking physical violence is the only answer.

Maybe that Tequila's not such a good idea afterall... (although you would be properly taking a cab this time round as if not the cat then whatever it was that took off running with your keys empaled in its side is less than likely to be coming back any time soon... ;)

You know what sucks? Well, what sucks besides:

- the purpose behind the content of this entire post thus far...

- and the fact that you still don't know if it was the cat or not,

- and if it wasn't, where is the cat?

- And if not the cat, does that mean that you're now going to have to replace your entire key rings worth of keys given the fact that anything that has just been empaled by a set of what look and feel like a set of steel spikes is less than likely to return AT ALL, much less anytime soon,

- and if that wasn't the cat then what the hell was in the hallway when you snapped just enough to have reached within 5 feet of the box before you realized "that things plugged into 120 volts, isnt it" and wisely slowed to a stop just in time to avoid gaining any sort of real understanding into just how evil that little bastard can be if He/She wants to.

- So what now starts to make this list a little less of a bitter pill to swallow is the fact that this time you have at least said this without actually believing He/She's alive and instead using it as a simple way to vent your frustrations.

- Of course these frustrations seem to take on a whole new feeling of "AAAAHHHHHH!!!" when:

[and this is where we will bring the "you know what suck's?" question back into play]

- after two days and at least 3 moments where you were pretty sure you were going to break into tears you find out [via IEBlog, A DAY LATER!!!]:

Netscape 8 and Internet Explorer's XML Rendering

We’ve just confirmed an issue that has started to be reported on newsgroups and forums that after installing Netscape 8 the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer no longer work. That means that if you navigate in IE to an XML file such as an RSS feed http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss.xml or an XML file with an XSLT transformation applied then rather than seeing the data you are presented with a blank page.

Could it get worse?

You had to ask, didn't you...

If in and of itself this post has not suggested a level of suckness greater than any other level of suckness you've heard all day thing's take on a whole new level of suckness when you realize that the post you made about Netscape a few days ago that stemmed from a post from Elliotte Rusty Harold in which he states:

Netscape has released version 8.0.1 of its namesake web browser for Windows. This release is based on Firefox 1.0.4 instead of 1.0.3, Apparently someone at AOL finally got enough a clue pounded into their head to realize that shipping a browser with a known security hole just to meet a deadline and a code freeze wasn't so smart. Any users should upgrade, but most people should probably just use Firefox and forget about Netscape.

was the only reason you chose to install Netscape in the first place as you were pretty sure this was the "IEFF" (IEFF??? Hmmm... could we somehow contrive deeper meaning with these letters... Hmmm... let me think about that for... you know I'm not going to even think about it that long... No! NO MORE "THINKING"!!!) release and wanted to try it out to see if actually worked to then blog "halellulia's" if it did...

Why can't I just listen? I mean when you're talking about someone like Elliotte who's going to be right 99.100% of the time why bother with taking him to task when you know the odds your verdict is gettin' overturned anyway are, again, 99.100%?

That Elliotte Rusty Harold I tell ya... He's a smart one now isn't he...

Damn it!!!

Ok, I'm happy again now... its a forced happy but at least I know I can now get some work done... work that is desperately needing completion and has suffered GREATLY because of this little "Tango w/ Timmy" (which is my computer's new name... I figured every living, breathing organism deserved to have a name, right? Why Timmy? To be honest, the state in which my mind was in when that name came into existence is not a part of my brain I plan to "visit again real soon!!" [said with the same enthusiasm and gestures made famous by Chevy Chase in the Vacation series during each visit to the family "funny farm".

Cousin Vicki: I'm going steady, and I French kiss.
Audrey Griswold: So? Everybody does that.
Cousin Vicki: Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it.

You know what should have given this one away. Kurt and I were going to record the first blogxast last night. But in a VERY unlike Kurt manner when the time came to call him he wasn't anywhere to be found. It was early this morning that I finally did hear from him and you could tell that his day/night/day had not gone as smoothly as he had hoped... And yet I still spent time today rewriting the registry... from memory! (my memory, not Timmy's! ;) instead of making the realization that all these problems started just about the time I installed Net'Scrape (sorry, what can I say... I tried... I really did try and was even pretty stoked by the Ctrl + Shift + E capability. In fact thats the exact reason I kept at it as this XML rendering problem only showcased itself, at least in my case anyway, when relying upon a PI to instiate a transform or define which CSS file to use to style the XML with. Javascript invoked transforms seem to work just fine. Hey Emmanuil, you need to be proclaiming to the world that the recent Netscape "XML Fiasco" was chewed on through and spit on out by Sarissa as "She's been hummin' along just fine during all of this..."

"When you've got nothing else you can count on, you can always count on Sarissa to be there for you when you need her the most." [VARIATION:3] <-- in case you saw the first two variations of this slogan and are now wondering how and when it grew --<.

I swear, I should ditch this whole computer business and go and write cheezy one liners for commercials or something.... or... then again, hmmmm... maybe not... :D :)

Enjoy your night :D Oh, and for those who are worried... the Cat's OK... and, in fact, what I had thought was something running out with my keys empaled to its side was the combination of keys and carpet gracefully suspended in Pixar-Perfect syncronized animation that took on a much more animal-like appearance from a left-side perspective when my mind was already in a state that's on no known map this side of Alyeska, Alaska... and I doubt they sell many maps past Alyeska so its a pretty safe assumption that "these were some unchartered and therefore un-mapped territories I was traveling in." While I definitely am one who likes to travel, I don't think I'm going to plan a return trip to this far-off-land any time soon...

Sure was fun while it lasted though, huh???!!! :D