psyche

I’m looking forward to the officialisation of the XHTML 2.0 standard (yay for all elements being potential links - this is a major codebloat destroyer!) as well as actually having time to revamp Psyche and learn CSS properly as opposed to muddling through as I am now. Also, it’ll be nice to do computing as a subject. I must learn Python. I am confused.

Anyway, at the moment I have Yellow Dog running on the iBook - it had no important data on it so I had no problem smashing the hell out of (= partitioning) the disk and installed as normal. I soon discovered the joy of dependencies. My goodness. Such horror.

It’s occured to me that some people don’t enjoy being sad. I don’t enjoy it - it doesn’t make me joyful - that’d be rather paradoxical - but I’m sure the rain isn’t so bad.

The awesome Sibelius Technical Support team have cleared all the failed G7 registration and now it works properly. I’m upgrading to Kontakt edition as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Psyche 2.0 is being built slowly - not from scratch, but sort of like this: (the technique has a name) I look at each old page, assess the functionality, choose which functionality is unnecessary or more trouble than it’s worth, and code a new version with stuff I want to omit, well, omitted - without ever looking directly at the source code. So I’m basically saying “anything I can’t see isn’t going to be on my page”. Obviously for compliance I’ll add “alt” attributes and perhaps some JavaScript functions - if they’ll contribute to the efficiency or functionality of the site. No more gratuitous scripting - Elliot’s terrible computer reminded me that not everyone even has JS (or in his case, not everyone has a version of IE7 that’s not totally fucking screwed).

Expect Psyche Public Beta soon.

Pax

P.S. Making widgets is fun