Precrastination
It’s well beyond procrastination. SG would like to procrastinate, but we keep finding ways to avoid getting around to it. We’re PREcrastinators. The last few days have been our cup of tea, aspirin, and a nap, and we hope to be able to publish on a more regular schedule soon.
Wow, it’s been five days since we’ve posted anything, and that wasn’t supposed to happen. Like everybody else, we’ve been busy with “day jobs” and probably suffering a bit from PEAD (Post-Election Anxiety Disorder), as predicted. It’s good to see real news like Iraq, Terrorism, and the Economy back on the front pages of the papers instead of buried at the back where they are less likely to (shudder) influence the voters.
Did you notice the report that the Euro reached it’s strongest position in history against the Dollar on Wednesday? The rest of the world reacts to American politics faster than WE do!
So much to say, and so little time. SG has a list of pieces to complete, edit, and post, but they all require more research than expected. And then there is the hunt for better software for the blog itself. The script we’re using now appeared to be the best available on short notice, but there is a critical lack in relation to the research that we mentioned. We’d like to point you to our sources, and some “for further reading” material that we encounter from time to time, but we have no easy way to provide a link.
It’s long forgotten, but the concept of “hypertext” was the foundation of the World Wide Web. Text was “marked up” with links to external files (which could be chunks of text, pictures, databases, etc, often organized into “pages.” In the original concept you could “highlight” or “click on” just about any signficant word in a document and be shown a definiton, or reference, or related information. What has NOT been forgotten is that the entire Web runs on HTML, which stands for hypertext markup language. The langauage itself is very simple, as programming languages go, because it was designed to be universal Everybody agreed on how a page was set out, and every browser displayed it the same way, regardless of what kind of computer was being used. Meanwhile, of course, Microsoft has attempted to extend its control of cyberspace by introducing web page “design features” that are specific to THEIR browser. Oh, yeah– italics would be nice too so we don’t have to “shout” at you in capital letters when we want to emphasize something.
But we digress, as we so often do. And the preceding paragraph is typical of the digression that so often impedes the publication of a more serious SG piece. In fact there are probably fifteen or twenty “storyboarded” pieces that exist as scraps of paper, rough drafts, or mental outlines. If only we could quit precrastinating get around to putting them off a bit longer.
–SG
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