Battleangel

Not much happening recently. The days just keep floating by like raindrops on a windshield. Not much I can do about it. Just biding my time.

Anyway, being such a nice guy, I’ve used this free time to help substantiate the new website for club “Stones”. At least it’s putting my webdesign abilities to good use. To a degree at least. However, some things are sorely apparent. Webdesign is not something that should be attempted as a group project. Content management maybe but as far as principal layout goes it should be left to a single individual to complete. Sadly, in this case, the project has been slightly held back by the will of the many. But I’m sure I’ll be able to steamroll the page into shape. Candidates and test pages include this and this so far.

Furthermore I am once again reminded how troublesome it is to work with CSS page formatting. I mean, setting font and table properties is one thing but creating elements from CSS is threatening my sanity. For the site above I have customized and integrated the Singapore Gallery. Sadly the default templates rely almost entirely on CSS elements. After test driving the design with IE, FireFox and Opera there is nothing left to do but to rewrite large portions of the template, essentially building a fresh template, to get rid of the ghastly CSS formatting.

Futility of the day: Copy-pasting a series of gelelectrophoretic analysis images, trying to append them in Photoshop for further analysis and quantification. Another favor for another old friend. And another project with a questionable outcome that could have been different had I been involved through the entire process. I’m not claiming to be such a über-besserwisser here. I’m just saying that it helps if the same person can be there throughout a process, any process really. It sucks being called in to fix some “last minute” quirk that could have been seriously marginalized. Stuff like this really makes you appreciate the cooperation between different scientific branches.

Other than that I’m waiting for the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo that is due out any minute now. Good news even if UT2003 was pretty much crap. And even if the full game wont ship until some time in march.