Tone Parsons

Woah, Mel… lose the beard!!

Nuff said!

I just got the worst email ever.

From: xxxxxx, Mary
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:16 AM
To: Parsons, Tone
Subject: Web Page

Tone,

My son is trying to design a web page. Can you give us any advise on how to proceed with this?

Thanks,

Mary

She should have just asked me “How do I breathe?“.

My reply:

From: Parsons, Tone
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:23 AM
To: xxxxxx, Mary

Subject: RE: Web Page

Wow… um… that’s a pretty open ended question. There are literally thousands of ways to do it.Um, my first advice is that you know exactly what you want before you do anything. Have in mind what you want it to say, how you want it to look, what pictures you want to use, etc.

Then, build a mock-up, using word, photoshop, whatever you have in mind, so you can be sure you like how it looks.

Finally, convert that into html, php, asp, cfml, or whatever web based language you are planning to use. You’ll need to find out exactly what your webhost supports (html will always work, and most places support php, asp, and cfml).

If he doesn’t know how to code a website up, then I suggest using something like Microsoft Front Page (it comes with Office Pro). That lets you work on the finished product and it writes the code for you, then you upload the whole mess to your webhost.

Without any details I can’t be any more specific.

Mental note to self: never EVER tell people you know anything about computers.

The weekend has come and gone, and once again, it’s back to work.

Yay!

It’s monday with a vengeance at work today. The lights in my area keep going off (I’m assuming they’re working on something). The build-out wasn’t finished when we moved in. Contractors are all over the place, building rooms, painting, wiring, etc. It makes for a loud and very stinky workplace (the glue they put down to hold the carpet is very overpowering!).

I am slowly getting settled in the new cubicle. This morning, I unpacked the last of my boxes. Of course the way I want to decorate it is up in the air, as they’re implementing new and very stringent guidelines now. Nothing can stick out above the cubicle walls (which are about 6′ or 1.83m tall) and we can’t cover the glass windows (you can see them behind my monitor in the “Live” feed).

Of course, me being… well, me, I have an evil plan. It involves corn.

I’m bringing in a large planter, filling it with dirt, and am going to attempt to grow corn in my cube. If all goes well, that should shoot up to over 6′ high. It’ll be interesting to see what they do (plants are allowed in the cube). If that goes well, I may grow pumpkins next year or perhaps wheat.

Yup…. non-conformity is my middle name!

And while I’m busy being a non-conformist, I’m waiting for my new hard drive to arrive. My home PC;s drive is being a bit prissy (it’s suddenly developed a ton of bad sectors and the SMART function is warning me that it’s about to die), so I ordered a lovely new 320GB SATA2 Seagate Barracuda to replace it with. I’ve been watching my tracking number for the shipment and it should be in the building at any minute.  Of course, that means that tonight’s game plan is to get that into the trusty home PC, format, and reinstall everythying (yes… backups of the old drive have been made, and I actually lost very little data).  Good times.

And finally, my plans to rule the world with an iron fist are once again on hold.  I’ll let you know when that’s back on (this is truely frustrating).