Spent the entire evening wandering around the blogs of others. Now the feelings of inadequacy gently rip at my ego. Never fear, making a fool of myself has never stopped Fezboy! before. I only wish someone would come to my blog. I feel like Kilgore Trout – making love to the world with the windows open, not expecting anyone to actually watch.

I now have several designs I want to implement as well. Look for changes at some point. However, the semester is about to get really funky and there could a be a dearth of time for such inanities as redesigning this blog. In fact, it may be difficult to post regularly throughout the day. I do pledge to make at least one post, just to let my fan know the Fezboy! is still typing, if not breathing.

I would like to rant about my instructor’s email message received today. A class project (and oh, lord, what am I doing in this class?) I recently completed was to mock up a web site for an imaginary company or organization. While not expressly encouraged, I used 4.0 transitional and CSS to put the site together. I got a message from him today stating that I needed to comply with the requirements of the assignment and eliminate the CSS.

Whatthefuck??

Nevermind that CSS is the W3C recommendation and that the use of such tacky things like <b> or <i> tags are deprecated by 4.0 or that 4.0 and 4.01 are both outdated standards themselves, I need to bring my site into compliance. Nevermind that I complied with the distasteful practice of using an unordered list to put a table of contents at the top of my site. Nevermind that I complied with every other whack and bad design oriented requirement for this crappy assignment – I need to drop the CSS.

Let Fezboy! know if you can find any prohibition against using CSS in this assignment. I sure as hell can’t.

Anyway, Fezboy! probably signed his own death warrant in this class because he fired off an email to his instructor conveying the general gist of this rant, replete with links to W3C, the course syllabus, and a position paper on CSS vs. style tags in HTML that weighed quite heavily against the latter.

Who wanted to go back to grad school anyway?