Often I wake up Monday or Thursday morning with no more than a notion of what I'm going to blog for the day. Sometimes it's easy to transform that notion into words, sometimes it's hard. Some days I begin without even a notion; today is one of those days.
It's also my 210th post. By now I don't remember all of what I've written about here at JEC. This is problematic because sometimes I wake up Monday or Thursday morning with a notion, begin transforming it into words, and then realize that I've already written a post about that exact thing. That's embarrassing and time-consuming—not to mention it makes me wonder about my chances of avoiding senility. But it's the wasting of time that stings right now, and I've made this mistake enough times to consider it a problem worth solving. Because I don't have an Internet connection at home—not one that I pay for—I can't count on Blogger's search box being available whenever I need it. Instead, I'm working to archive my posts locally, offline.
Blogger has a feature for doing this. It allows you to download your blog as a massive XML file containing all posts, reader comments, and some settings junk. If you're looking for a machine-readable copy of your blog, this is perfect. However, I want a human-readable copy, and that requires some tinkering. The solution I'm working towards is to hand-craft the XML back into separate HTML pages—that's 210 pages and counting. I reason that this solves having a local copy while presenting me with an opportunity to learn HTML. That's right; I don't know HTML.
Sure, I've written a few simple CGI websites, so I know enough of the basics to get by. But I've never used, for example, cascading style sheets or JavaScript, and only recently did I learn <em> is the appropriate tag for making text italic, not <i>. By hand-crafting my JEC pages offline, I expect to fast-forward my HTML knowledge 12 years to the 21st century. This might be a good fallback in case my career in embedded software development doesn't pan out.
As to whether any of the knowledge I acquire will propagate up to the online JEC, that remains to be seen.
3 comments:
Based on your memory loss and dementia, I recommend that we put you through the GEIT process. We'll give you an ADOS as well as the WIAT. If you qualify, I'll write you an IEP. I suspect we will need to give you a BIP to help track your improvements, but first (of course), an FBA is necessary.
Laura— WTF?
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