Once again, my e-mailed post doesn't seem to have gone through. Internet access is finally available so I'm going to post through the web site. If there end up being two versions, please forgive the redundancy. I'll clean it up when I get a chance. Here are today's wanderings...
Today was mostly focused on paperwork, getting through that stack of blue folders that's been clogging my inbox due to procrastination and random busyness. Finally done. Yesterday's writing was a convenient diversion. When I procrastinate, I don't mess around--I take it very seriously. The ironic thing is, that actually writing the glossary didn't take nearly as much time as formatting it so that it was readable. I learned a little about html syntax in order to sneak the table format into blogger. There's no "wizard" for using tables so I had to do it the old fashioned way--I coded it. You can ask Janell, though, and technical challenges like that are often my worst enemy. Time stands still and the fact that I have to get up in the morning no longer seems to matter. I become singly focused on solving the problem--even if the problem is so trivial and insignificant that anyone looking from the outside in would think I was insane for spending more than 10 minutes trying to solve it. The true geek in me had awakened (at 1 in the morning of all times). I finally got to bed last night around 3:30. Fortunately I didn't have anything scheduled for this morning.
I got another haircut today--tonight actually, at 2140. It's so strange to get a haircut late at night. At least I keep telling myself it's strange, because there's barely any difference in activity or light between 0940 and 2140 inside the skin of the ship. I made sure the barber left the top of my head alone this time. The barbers on the ship are not technically professional barbers. I seriously doubt they have any formal training. They are junior sailors from the ship's company who have an interest in barbery (if that's not a word, it should be) and are selected to work in the barber shop. But then, doing military cuts on the boat isn't all that hard (following directions, however must be, as I learned last time). Most people keep their hair very short, especially on deployment (whether intentionally or not). Cutting hair around here is more akin to mowing a lawn than actually worrying about style or cut. I don't think they even have a pair of scissors in the barber shop. It's all electric shears. Baa-aaa-aaa-aa.
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Are you comfortable with HTML tables now? If not, I can e-mail you some more info or some boilerplate code you can quickly modify.
Love,
Your Geeky Aunt Lucy
WARNING: Technobabble Ahead.
Aunt Lucy,
If by comfortable, you mean can I construct a simple 2 column table that looks reasonable in blogger, then yes. The code is raw brute force, however. I know there are much more elegant ways of affecting the same layout, but I'm not quite there. The real challenge was that any time there is a hard line break in the code (not a {br} tag (ends are weird so blogger doesn't read it as html), but just a place where Enter was pressed to go to the next line), Blogger assumes you want to insert a {br} tag when it reads your raw html. So, if I were to format the table to make the source code look nice (which is necessary for future edits), Blogger would insert about 200 blank lines in the entry before the table even began. Go figure. So I had to figure out a way to write the code without any hard line breaks--a dauntingly tedious task that would effectivly prohibit any future editing or error handling. The document started out as a table in Word. All I did was create columns in the table to hold the html elements in their proper places, then converted the table to text, with spaces in place of cell divisions, then I ran a Replace All to put spaces where all the hard line breaks once were. It looks messy, but it's a relatively quick way to take an editable collection of information in a Word table and turn it into something that looks decent in Blogger.
That being said, I'm game for all the gouge you want to send along. I guess that's a term I'll have to add to the list. :) Thanks.
-Scott
I'm going to e-mail you a quick HTML primer when I get a minute. I'll give you boiler plate for a nice, clean table. MS Word makes the dirtiest HTML around
BTW: My friend, who was here when I was reading your blog could not understand why the Navy does not give you total access to the Internet 24/7. I think he envisioned you using DSL or cable modem. I had to explain that you were likely dependent on satellite as you move along.
Clearly, he's not a geek!
Do I qualify as a "non-geek" since I can't understand a word you two are typing?
I'm with you twinmommy.
Your (geeky?) cousin Ann came up with the solution to a single pixel, SOLID border for an HTML table. Set cell padding and spacing to "zero" and your border width to "one."
Thanks, Ann! Of course, now that you've helped solve my quandry, I like the no-border look better. I think the problem is the zero margin look that this solution creates. I'll leave the lines in there for a few days and see how it works. I'll probably end up taking them out again.
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