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Sarah BrodwallI'm a 31 year old American expat living in Oslo, Norway, with my bulldog, Ada, and my husband, Johannes. My interests include interaction design, especially information architecture, philosophy of mind and ethics, cognitive psychology, sociobiology, feminism, yoga, fat acceptance, knitting, pottery, and cooking.

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16 June 2005

Working on the style again…

I’ve gotten the monthly archive looking decent now. I think all I have left is the comments…what a pain in the ass. I may or may not get the comments looking decent tonight.

The style continues to weird out sometimes in IE, although it always looks fine in Forefox. I think I’ll leave it as it is. I’m tired of messing with it. It’s always at least readable.

Update: I’ve got the comment templates working, so everything should be pretty now. If something isn’t pretty, let me know!

Posted at 5:02
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Gets on my nerves.

What is it with people who refuse to use proper capitalization? I had a run-in with one of these on Big Fat Blog, a linguistics master’s student, nonetheless. Being in a linguistics-related field myself, normally I’d be really interested in what this person has to say. But the combination of the pretentionusness of not using proper capitalization with the fact that it’s just too damn difficult to read what this person writes pretty much guarantees that I’m going to be skipping all her posts. Capitalization exists for a reason, ya know. Just now I was reading Alternet, and saw an article about someone called “asha bandele”. Not “Asha Bandele”, but “asha bandele”. How is this anything but incredibly pretentious? Do these people think that by refusing to capitalize they’re somehow sticking it to The Man? Rather, they’re insuring that I won’t bother to read what they have to say. It just makes me roll my eyes. It’s your name so I guess you’ve got a right to write it however you want, but then I have a right to ignore you. Nothing gets on my nerves more then pretentiousness. Ugh, get a life!

Posted at 1:26
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