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You.

Switzerland must be a very lonely place.

WhaT#s wrong with that one? I don't have it yet and was thinking of picking it up soon. Cheers!

And will you please stop inserting smileys from pregnancy.org in my thread, PLEASE.

Well, I, err, woke up, err, and my PC was still running and, err, well, err ... and, err, hm, err ... I screwed up. Alright? I screwed up. HAPPY?

I did as well. Sent you some mail. (I voted for both ) Cheers!

YES! YES! YES!

BTW: I can explain the drop from 99 to 93, just not now. -_-

Ain't that the truth. And I've had it for 93 years already. It does f*ck up the skin, majorly, but I've got my own Nip & Tuck "shop" around the corner, so I get that excess baggage removed every Monday. I get a 15% discount. Cheers!

And what's gotten in to you?

Or are these celebrations getting boring? After all, posting on this board is speeding up so it would be party time every couple of weeks. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that. Cheers!

Well, the site front is finished. The jazz section will look and function pretty much like it, but it will take a long time to put together. I'll post here when it's done. I think I will do the password-protected private section fir4st, don't know though. Don't have much time at the moment and the Basie site needs to be finished as well, right, John & Flurin? http://www.deus62.com/ Cheers! Note that I added a little favicon.ico to show up in your favourites, if you should add the page at some point. If anyone can show me the Organissimo T-Shirt thread again, I'll make one of those favicon.ico thingies for these forums as well ...

Bucephalus. Now that stirs some memories. I had this wonderful history teacher for many years, Mr. Anthony Vadala (actually, his sister might be known to some of you in the US: Julia Taft, Assistant Administrator and Director in the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a wonderful lady with as big a heart as her brother), who threw these horrible 100 Specifics tests at us, usually at the most inconvenient time. We had to work our rear ends off for those. One of the classic questions was "What was the name of Alexander the Great's horse?" We stopped making fun of these tests once we realized that the sheer number of them actually crammed tons of facts into our heads, facts that still come in handy today (especially now that I'm a teacher myself). These tests were just a small part of his lessons and he really taught us to use our brains and our curiosity to the best effect. Best teacher I ever had. Cheers! Edit: Added a link

Konitz certainly has humor. Nice article. Thanks for posting it! Cheers!

Isn't he called Saotome?

Man, this is really dragging out. I'm sorry to hear the doctors haven't found the problem yet. Hang in there!

Thanks for checking, everyone. ------------------------------------------------- @Chris: What a coincidence. I don't think there are many people around anymore who actually know what "Københavns Akademi For Fri og Merkantil Kunst" was. Neither did I, but there's a guy who went there whom I bought some ceramics off (I'm a sucker for many of those Danish "brugskunst" items sold at an annual market in front of the Copenhagen University) in the beginning 90s. I remember him telling me about that school. I think it was private (if my memory doesn't fail me)? It doesn't exist anymore, does it? -------------------------------------------------

Welcome!

Thanks everyone! I guess I can use this as a basis for the other pages then. Now I only need more time. Cheers!

Thanks, Maren!

Thanks everyone. I'm still interested in hearing from Mac users with Safari etc. but I think everything should be OK there as well. @Claude: Yes, I did design this (as I do all my sites) at a fixed width of 744px. That's about 3000 miles away from any standards compliance and lightyears from the basics of "fluid" layout propagated by quite a few known designers. A couple of words about this: I started the design of my site (if you look at it closely, it is really simple and doesn't have many potential CSS or XHML pitfalls) with strict XHTML and CSS compliance in mind. There are many great sites on the Net that follow all the rules to the last detail, but as I was reading and studying these past months, I also began to notice more and more hacks which were applied to these pages because of (mostly) Internet Explorer and its many CSS bugs (box model hack, for example). I'd love to design a site which observes the following (and I will, eventually): a) strict adherence to all the rules of CSS 2 and XHTML 1 b) fluid (meaning flexible) page layout that gives the user the final choice of screen width c) skinable, meaning depending on what you like, you change the layout with one click d) accessibility for various systems (for example screen readers for blind people) It's fascinating to see what can be done today in Web Design, but I resorted to tables again because I'm not ready to program the above yet. The learning curve is VERY steep ... because of all the workarounds you have to get in there. Cheers! P.S.: There is a plugin for Firefox which allows you to view sites somewhat like a screen reader would see them. I'm absolutely glad I'm not visually impaired because the junk most designers produce (incl. myself, at the moment) is virtually unbearable when you get it read out to you. This latter issue will probably lead to a much simpler design in the future into which I'd like to integrate as many accessibility features as possible. Edit: Check out these sites for what can be done already despite sticking to all those strict rules (just a few from my long list of favourites): CSS Vault CSS Beauty Unmatched Style Web Standards Awards

Hi everyone, slowly but surely (an hour here, an hour there) I'm reshaping my website. It'll be done sometime next year. Right now it would be great if some people could look at this page and give me some feedback on what it looks like in their browser. I'm not making the pages standards-compliant, I'm trying to get them to look OK on all systems, using (for any of you that are interested) HTML 4.1 and CSS. I'm interested in the following: :::: Do you have the impression that the page breaks anywhere in your browser? Test Page That's all. Thanks for your help! Note: This is a test page. None of the links outside of those in the text work, and the various section indicators etc. a) don't work and b) don't reflect where this entry on Thigpen is going to show up on the final site.

We've had a thread like this before. Actually quite a long one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=81&st=0

Flak me if you like, but I like Harry Connick. Hell, I actually saw him live and he's not only a fine pianist but also knows a lot more about music than many other half-assed jazz artists (nope, you won't get me to mention names). He knows his New Orleans stuff and has got some damn good players in his big band ... who usually drop everything they're doing if they get a chance to play with him. I have no idea why one would want to trash-talk an artist like him. Pretty narrow-minded, if you ask me. Cheers!