New wallpaper ordered

I haven't blogged in a few days... not that it matters really, since there's just about no one reading this but me :P

The new Snazzy Goshwow Redesign^TM is taking place, and I was going to upload a test page today from school until I discovered that the limitations of the school's awful network system had foiled me again. (Should that be 'thwarted'?)

1. CSS is apparently not a valid file extension (since it's not associated with any program).
2. I can't create an association since they've disabled Windows Explorer -> View -> Options and I don't know any other way of getting to it.
3. This means you have to open all CSS files from Notepad, rather than just double-clicking them. Not a big problem, and if that was the only symptom I wouldn't mind. But...
4. You can't view any CSS files in IE by typing the URL since if it's from an internet source it will try to open the file rather than display it, find that there's no program associated with it, and refuse to budge. It doesn't give the option of saving to disk. If the CSS file is from a local hard drive, it will also refuse to open it (the same is true for all local files, not just CSS files) and says "Access to the resource [URL] has been disallowed".

So, in order to look at any CSS file you have to have it on your network drive and open it from within Notepad. However, I emailed all my redesign stuff to school (image files, test.html, new.css) and found that M$ Outlook (which I am forced to use) attempts to open all attachments before asking if you want to open it or save it. Which means that I was unable to save my CSS attachments to disk because every time I clicked on them it told me that there was no program associated with this file and therefore it couldn't open them. And right-click has also been disabled so that I can't right-click and force it to Save As.

That was my long-winded excuse as to why I haven't blogged since last Thursday (I've been redesigning) and why you can't see the fruits of my labour. I'm annoyed about this.

My driving test is tomorrow morning, timed for just after the rush hour (9.30). "Wear your hair in a ponytail for your test", said my instructor.

Wherefore?

I had my hair in a ponytail for my last driving lesson, and apparently when I was doing my observation for my manuoevres (quickly flicking head from side to side) it was really noticeable. As in, I nearly had my instructor's eye out with the hair swinging pendulum-like back and forth. Apparently this is a sure-fire way to not get a minor fault for observation during manuoevres!

If you have a fairly decent connection speed (possibly even if you don't - I haven't checked) please, please look at The True Story of LOTR (Windows Media Player file, 2.41MB). It's worth it :)

Ostriches

So what am I doing this week and next week? <mode='Jesse'> (from 'The Fast Show') "This week, I will be mostly panicking." </mode>

Panicking about what? I hear you ask.[1] Well, let's see...

• My A-level Physics coursework, due in completed next Thursday (or maybe after half term, if we need the time)
• My A-level Statistics coursework, due in completed next Tuesday.[2]
• All my other homework, including two pieces in for Wednesday (which I won't be able to do tomorrow in my study periods, since I'll be taking my driving test) and three A-level Mechanics and Statistics papers (practice) due in next Tuesday.
• My driving test tomorrow, although that is actually the least of my concerns now.
• Oh yes, and my mock A-level Maths P5 exam next Friday. It's before half-term because they couldn't fit in all of our maths exams in the week after half term, when all the rest of my exams are. And it's the hardest unit by far.

The irony of this is that I'll probably get even more internetty stuff done (like redesigning this site) than if I didn't have all this other stuff to do. [cf. what happened with my coursework for Physics.] I mean, I'm even blogging now with my stats coursework on my lap, with a half-written sentence on the page!

I think this is called the Ostrich syndrome. And if it wasn't, it is now.