On most technical forums, and even when IRC is not being technical, I tend to hold off on volunteering opinions because I don’t want to seem, I suppose, arrogant, and because someone else probably knows better what they’re talking about. (Of course, sometimes they don’t, and I get mad, but I try not to e.g. splatter it all over Planet.)

I’ve kind of kept at this thing (9 years and counting...) despite that making me feel like I do not even remotely fit in. School is a similar environment it this country. I never spoke up in class, but at least I had the privilege to do so without someone saying “oh, what could they possibly know, they’re a girl.” But that attitude’s still around, and our term papers aren’t still going to be due if we wasted all our time being loud obnoxious pricks. The smaller the stakes, the more energy you can waste picking on people who are different.

Perhaps we don’t do this because we’re sexist; perhaps we’re sexist because we do this.

So, I still hate HTML, and in particular I hate tidy for not even understanding xmlns. (Seriously! WTF, people?) And not, AFAICT, having any way to hook in something that will grok py:strip as a null container. But there’s the slightly-new layout.

I think I wrote that headline about 50 times before it was remotely close to even. I am very sloppy. And my markers suck. I was going to work on these exercises some but I think it may be a lost cause.

I was also going to put the diacritical mark on the ū, but I forgot. I need to dig through my books and website notes and finish the front page for this stupid domain name that explains what it means and why I somewhat arbitrarily chose not to transliterate it as “hu”. (Because I’m Irish and it makes more sense to me that way. Shut up.)

Also, here is something I was going to link yesterday (from Michael), but forgot: The Sarong Theorem Archive.

Oh the ruling class

Just wanna suffer

Yeah, the ruling class

Just want some pain

All them strawberries

They're not enough for

All those open wounds

All that champagne

—Robyn Hitchock, Ruling Class

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 787, in __init__
    self.read = self.fp.read
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'read'

Sigh. I believe this is how Joe feels all the time, only much less so.