Checkboxes

In which our Hero makes little boxes (on the website: little boxes made with css3). Little boxes, on the website. Little boxes all the same

My little tiny triumph for the day is figuring out a more modern way to make aesthetic looking checkboxes work in Internet Explorer 8. It’s fascinating just because a number of the things that I’m doing are not actually features available *in* IE8 but through the miracle of polyfill scripts, you can kind of fool the damn thing into thinking it’s a nicer browser than it is.

The most interesting part to me is that I actually solved this problem about 3 years ago, but this new solution is way more sophisticated and future friendly.

A 17-year-old kid received 30 million dollars from Yahoo for his iPhone app. Hollywood read that headline to me and then mocked me. “You’re capable of that kind of stuff, you should be creating apps like that.” He’s not wrong.

But I’m *here* at this job with this client and I’m tired of it. THe department has signed its own death warrant, and the project I am working on is the construction of a metaphoric guillotine. Fortunately incompetence means that it’ll be years before they can take off their own head but that doesn’t prevent the process from being profoundly unpleasant.

Not sleeping enough. As evidenced by the awakiosity as I write this in the small hours of the morning. I was falling asleep, I coughed, and now I’m up. Thinking about writing a file upload module. Thinking about tomorrow. Don’t like that I’m dreading it as much as I am. Don’t like my indifference to the work, the task, the people. Certainly not thrilled about the fact that I’m scheduled to be in meetings from 9 until 5, none of which having anything to do with any productive work on my part.

Okay. What else can I talk about. It can’t be an entry till there’s at least something. I wish I had some something more interesting to share. It’s like something about the sharing process feeds back on itself and forces the story to a path, an arc. Except I’m not sure what I’ve got in the flavour of emotional openness.

What I do have is a headache. Maybe it’s time to try sleeping again. Maybe it’ll work.

Post Script, it did work. Only took till 2 am.

The funny thing is that I made the decision to tell the client that I wasn’t going to update the powerpoint until I was done my research. The client came back with “I’m sure we understand conceptually enough to put together slides.” And then all the stress went away. I made a slide describing a possible approach that may or may not be technically possible of indeterminate price and sent it off, just saying “So be it.”

Back to my mission to not talk at work.

The one thing about not posting with any frequency is that I forget how much the urge to post is a monkey on my back. (laugh) Screw it.

Anybody got any suggestions for things I can write about?