Web standards

I know web standards is sort of an oxymoron term. And I know the over used quote "What do I like about standards? That there is so many to choose from". Yes. Har har. Okay, my comment is how some people have set it so when you click on a link it opens a new window. I guess that they don't want you to actally leave their page. I am sure that lots of people love this. I don't. This pisses me off to no end. If I wanted to leave a window / tab open to your page, I'd have done it. Don't make decisions for me. I'm a big boy, really. I don't think that it will happen, but I'd love for pages to get a pass / fail rating from a UI perspective. And everyone would agree on this minimum standard. Even if it included not having spelling errors on your page (I know, I know...). Maybe if google and other search engines ranked you by how usable your site was, people would work harder at it rather than just throwing up crap html with the only critera is that it displays "okay" in IE or Mozilla. Even if there is a system config for this, I still don't think that designers should make that decision for the user. </rant>

I just bought the Two Towers (Special Edition) on dvd tonight. I was actually able to have the will power to hold off buying it (and getting the non-special edition) till now. I am impressed. Maybe it's cause every time I had a craving for Middle Earth I would just throw in the Fellowship of the Ring. Great movies, great books.

I wrote my Robotics midterm on Saturday. It was bad, bad, bad. Not only did I run out of time (as did most of the class), but I answered a question wrong because the prof changed the sub-scipt on a convention and I didn't notice. Yes, because I would normally notice it when you change the letters TRPY around (in a subscript!!). Riiiight. I think that was a dirty trick on the professors part. He should have highlighted it or something. Jerk.

Listening to: Moby - Into The Blue