(X)HTML

I decided that it was high time I started writing pages in XHTML, so went to the W3C website to look for a tutorial. However, while clicking around, I got distracted by the HTML quiz. To my shame, I only scored 15/20! In my defence, I can say that of the questions I got wrong,

• one was about making a page open in a new window, which is something I consider to be almost as bad as popups;
• one was about table layout, which I always handle in CSS;
• the other three were about forms, which I always do with CGI.pm.

So enough of that crap, I'm off to learn some XHTML.

Update: Scored 20/20 on the XHTML quiz!

Virtuous activity

After a lethargic Saturday, I decided to adopt the Aristotelean view that happiness comes from exercising virtue and

1. did some t'ai chi, a few kicking drills and a lot of stretching;
2. vacuumed, dusted and tidied;
3. read student essays
4. edited a paper I'm thinking of sending to Metaphilosophy (one of the coolest philosophy journals around, if you're into that kind of thing);
5. learnt XHTML (see previous post);
6. cooked Chinese foodfor my in-laws (who didn't turn up in the end, but what the hell, I now have enough stir-fry to last me three days);
7. drank fruit-juice mixes I juiced myself, rather than my normal rakı or beer.

I shall now go and sleep the sleep of the just.