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Worth it

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I heard a story today that made the learning curve I mentioned yesterday seem totally bearable.

A couple of weeks ago on our site we started streaming a bible study programme that is recorded by a couple of our pastors in our tv studio. Apparently, one of the “stars” was approached by a grateful congregation member who had invited a group of friends to watch it with her. It went down very well with her friends and raised some questions with one in particular which resulted in her chosing to believe in God, which she had never done, in spite of years in church. That’s when the website becomes more than a notice board.

That’s when struggling with CSS and PHP becomes redundant…

Don’t Panic

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I had a couple of weeks there in my new role as IT girl when the gloss had worn of and the clouds had parted displaying for all and sundry just how steep my current learning curve is. Not pretty people… not pretty at all.

Everest has nothing on this…

Actually, I started to get a bit anxious about it…

Which is separate from the anxiety about being away from my dearests at Christmas.
And the anxiety about being more comfortably upholstered than I was before winter.
And the anxiety about my family and their comings and goings and doings that I have issues with.
And the anxiety about the Count (which is much diminished, by the way).

I have been doing my best to squash all those other anxieties and trying to conquer the learning curve by reading really fat technical tomes. You know, the ones which have cds neatly tucked into their covers (to compound the already vast screeds of information therein) in the hope I could fill my brain with all one needs to be an IT girl.

It wasn’t working so I threw my hands up in the air and actually said

“God… this is ridiculous… I can’t do this”

To which he replied (in his most Australian of accents)

“too bloody right luv… what were you thinking?”

Sigh…

So… I asked him about CSS and ASP and PHP and CGI and Perl and C++ and XHTML etc…

and he said

“one thing at a time ok?”

I replied “Ok… about CSS..”

“Chuck out the books and try making some … You’re one of those learn better by doing type chicks…”

So the fires out front are burning the books and cds and I’m tweaking templates and fiddling with code from here to eternity.

And bingo

I finally get it…

I have made inline and external css that works… (most of the time)

So I say “Thanks God… You must be a bit of an IT guru yourself I suppose…”

And he said “yeah, the world wide web is just my footstool …” (Acts 7:49)

“Makes everything else seem a bit smaller really… thanks, God”

“You’re totally welcome… tis the way it should be.”

Lots of News – Lookout Deeleea’s back in fine form

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One I did not discover the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything today, the temperature was hot but by no means 42degrees C. Bah – Some little weather troll probably stroked their beard and mused aloud that it could get as high as 42 and someone took it as gospel!!! From the info I can find on the web the temperature didn’t break 40 – maybe 38-39. This is a happy thing.. it means it was pleasant to come home in my non airconditioned car… and my flat is getting a sea breeze that was not to be expected! There you go! All is well.
[Update: Only reached 35deg…]

Two Further to the home front I may have found another flatmate for when the Count moves out (planning ahead… hooray). I happened to be in a conversation with a bunch of my workmates today and Adder who is a part timer in the office was there. He practically had himself moved in by the time the conversation had ended. This is ok… he is very housetrained guy and while he is definitely NOT gay he is the sort of guy who would make a great girlfriend… You know what I mean right? The kind of bloke who is at ease with chicks and knows how to live with them.

Not like the Count. Oh God… he is arriving in 4 days…

Three I nearly got killed in my car today… A completely stupid person pulled from a side street out in front of me causing me no small amount of consternation (isn’t that a great word?) and a short sharp blast on the horn. Wish it had been a train horn… he would have soiled himself then… It took half an hour for my pulse rate to return to normal and after a coffee I was able to thank the ‘hood angels’ for sticking their feet out in front of them once again and protecting my car and me.

Four Finally, I took delivery of my wireless adaptor card today – it’s a beautiful thing… Ostensibly (‘nother great word) I bought it to use at Coldie’s place where they have a wireless network. Otherwise I can’t connect to their internet connection and I am at an immediate disadvantage when I go over to hang out and play geeks with her… So, now that they have an unlimited download limit on their broadband connection I can go over there and the two of us can surf till our hearts are contented!! The spin off is that I can use the lap top wirelessly at work as we have a wireless network there and the less cables on my desk the happier I am right?? Finally I will also be able to take it to wireless cafes and drink coffe and surf too… this could prove useful in the future…

I can see that my next purchase will be a wireless router for home and a broadband connection… so much for a $36.00 purchase… I foresee it costing a whole lot more than that before long…

Enough Said

Pig in Mud

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I have 3, count them 3 monitors on my desk… starting to feel much more like a SPHTML*. Admittedly there are only two computers, one monitor is the laptop one which is connected to a bigger brighter stand alone 17in beauty…

Anyway, I have lots more to post but really should be working… Just had to let some of the excitement out before I burst …

*Supreme Potentate of HTML