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   I'm still free. What about you?
   When you accept a job that asked for an HTML hand-coder, maybe you should bone up on HTML before you get there
2. When your temp supervisor asks what text editor you use, "the blogger window" is not the correct answer
3. Your temp cow-orkers should not be able to smell you before they see you -- it's always a good idea to wear clean non-smelly clothes, and to take a shower with soap before you go to your temp gig
4. Don't tell your temp supervisor about your blog
5. Don't blog about your work at ZZZ
6. Don't offer to edit the writing that you're supposed to code.
7. Don't edit the writing that you're supposed to code! I don't care how wrong it was!!
   
8. If you weren't given server access, don't ask for server access
9. Please don't ask what the *.php means.
   
10. Don't web surf
11. Don't assume you're on a temp to hire position... especially if you don't know any HTML and the position opening is Webmaster.
12. Don't ask the same questions over and over again. Take notes. The temp job will give you paper & pen if you ask.
13. Don't beg for a job, or mention that you've applied here before and been turned down.
    
14. Don't just use things at the temp work station, or check out stuff in the drawers
    
15. If your temp supervisor gives you a style sheet cheat sheet, use it.
16. If the temp supervisor mentions a style sheet, that means you shouldn't put font tags and align attributes in your HTML.
17. Don't set your own hours at the temp gig. It's presumptive.
18. Double-check your work.
    
19. Don't tell your temp supervisor that you need the money. Guess what? We're all working for money.
20. Don't decorate your temp work station
21. Don't demand a working phone at your work station
22. Don't expect your temp supervisor to critique your work
23. Don't get freaky when the temp supervisor says there's no more work, and don't ask if it's something you've done. The temp job doesn't exist to give career counseling.
    

I've been on a campaign of spring cleaning, of trying to lighten the load of my hoarded stuff in the house. One of those things that I hoard is magazines (well, paper of all kinds), so for the last couple weeks, I've been trying to bring two magazines a day into MPOW's magazine exchange. Today I'm giving myself 5 minutes on each magazine, and I'm going through an ancient issue (May/June 2005) of Rockrgrl, where I found a mention of the beautiful Emiliana Torrini. I remembered her video (and parts of this song) but not her name, which is infuriating.

Another interesting female musician profiled in that issue is Sharon Jones, who seems to have suddenly gained indie fame. I love 100 Days, 100 Nights -- it sticks in my head like a Sugarbaby. And I love how retro the video looks.

This is my current favorite LOL cat.
moar at i can has cheezburger

Speaking of Jesus Christ, it's a lion moments, I got all excited about riding my bike to work today... but then I couldn't get the back tire pumped up, and I was so very sad. So I trudged out to the bus stop, got on the bus with my favorite bus driver... and watched a triple-trailer-truck run a dead red light, turning out in front of the bus. The bus almost hit the truck, the bike in the bike lane almost hit the truck. Fun.

Since it is going to be T-day tomorrow, and since I'm still not in too great of a mood, let's play the gratitude game:

• I'm grateful I have a four day weekend
• I'm grateful I don't have to work during my four day weekend (unlike the last two weekends)
• I'm grateful I'm going to get to stop at the bike shop on the way home
• I'm grateful I'm going to get to pick up the scooter on the way home
• I'm grateful Sweetie has done the grocery shopping.
• I'm grateful he probably won't mind if I bring the bike into the middle of the living room to figure this crap out.
• I'm grateful we have some good stuff to cook over the next couple days
• I'm grateful for LOL cats

This is cats be sneaking a sammich
a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/28/cats-be-sneakin-a-sammich/">

And this could well be our Nigella...

My day was going great, until I got into work. A manager who is demanding and always somewhat blaming had left a voicemail that one of the web sites that her web dev had created had the heading rising up into the header (header: logo and global navigation; heading, the main title of the page), and since it was a template problem, it was my problem. I opened my email and there was an email from the web dev who works under this manager -- he had forwarded on her email about how the template was broken.

So, I looked at the web site in question, and there was a hack there that hadn't been (fully?) tested -- he hadn't actually followed the template, nor had he looked at the CSS to see why particular elements might be there.

So why am I still thinking about this? I wrote an email to the both of them mentioning what was happening, and asking the web dev to please follow the template. I was polite, but I wasn't overly nice. And now I feel guilty.

I need to learn how to stand up to bullies in some way that feels good and reasonable to me. I'm working really hard to stretch my skills and learn new things, I'm ready to grow into more responsibility, and yet, things like this, I don't have anyone here I can ask...

So I've been sulking about this for several hours that I really need to be putting toward constructive work. Ugh.

I have achieved blog admin rights. I believe it was in table: mt_author, that I changed is_superuser from 0 to 1. All I know is, I seem to be able to access everything.

Thank you again, Steve, for looking out for me!

So, I had a breakthrough this morning after making the previous post. I went into the database, into table mt-permissions, and added myself with blog administrator permissions. (Interestingly , I was in there multiple times with various roles -- but never blog admin)

That caused an error: invalid permissions for author 1 at lib/MT/Author.pm line 354.

I went into mt-author and made myself a superuser, so I don't get that error any longer, however, I'm still not blog admin.

I'm guessing the next step is to update the permissions and authors tables so that I am blog admin before I'm any of the other roles. I'm going to export that data from those tables and I'll post that in the hopes that I'm on the right track.

Thanks again, Steve, for offering to take this to QA.

Any useful input is appreciated, including info on paid support if there is such an animal for individual users at 6A.

I'm just making a general plea out into the universe. Please help me!

I've been a Movable Type user for a little over 2 years. Several weeks ago, I upgraded from 3.2 to 4.01, and that's where my problems really began.

It appears, that while I install the programs and pay for the hosting service, I am not the admin for the account. Interestingly, there is no admin for the account.

This is particularly poignant because my comments are turned off on the admin level. So at this point there is nothing I can fucking do to get them back.

I'm at wits end. I've repeatedly searched the forum and documentation, I've posted now several times on the forum, and no one has responded. I've hacked and hacked. If I could buy support, I would.

I'm on the verge of moving to WordPress. I don't want to, but I'm going to if I don't learn how to correct this situation, because I need to be spending time writing (and not spending time just trying something, again)

Please help me! I don't want to change blog platforms!!

Hey you all -
I'm trying to figure out some quantitative way to classify yarn stores. Like, what elements should it have? What yarns should it carry? What needles, what sizes, what other sorts of things? When you think of yarn stores, what makes a good one? Prices? Friendliness? Knitting or crochet help? Patterns? Magazines? Gadgets? Books? Yarns? Needles? Why do you love the stores you love?

If you could please share with me what makes a good yarn store for you, that would really really help me.

Also: what makes for a good online store?

Thanks much in advance, vj