Today I'm amusing myself by recoding something I've had my eye on for a while. Yes, at last I have an excuse to take a hammer whelk and chisel to [flagship religious current affairs programme]'s pages.

This is not part of the job spec—not that there is a job spec; it was just "[Herms], could you find out why this big gap's appearing in half these pages?"—but the pages in question are so outdated that, despite having a Firebug to help with diagnosis, it's about as quick to strip it all out and refit it. And what the hey, I'm in late anyway because of the doctor this morning, so I really don't mind.

Well. Test subject #1 was tables upon tables upon pointless spacer gifs. It is now CSS and a lot tidier.

Or will be if I can solve this final bizarre spacing problem on Firefox, that is. Much as I find IE sickening from a usability standpoint, it seems to interpret padding and suchlike much more sanely than the Mozilla family.

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This entry contains snark and talk about dieting, woo woo, how exciting. Well, ya been warned...

Today I spoke to the doctor in charge of my diet clinic. I haven't seen him for months, not since I began eating teh foodz again. And it wasn't a moment too soon, because it turned out I was to be discharged today (I thought I still had a fortnight to go).

I am pretty steamed about the lack of support, actually. If I stuck to the last specific thing I'd been told to do, I would be either dead or disintegrating from malnutrition by now. Enough green vegetables (from a specific set of ones containing 3% sugar or less, which is basically leaves) to cover the palm and fingers of your hand, plus a bit of chicken (or a vegetarian sausage or equivalent protein). One meal like that in a day. The nurses really seemed to think someone could live on that indefinitely.

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