next entryFinger Ache
Keeping your finger on the button for too long isn't a good idea
Anyone who does what I do for a living, or something similar, will be well familiar with the associated finger ache which is acquired after you have done alot of the same thing, for a number of hours. In particular CTRL C, V, N, A and W.
So today, with having to rip the content from a disheveled website into a new CSS template driven one, it has had a bit of an affect on my little finger... i.e it hurts! I don't have an ergonomic keyboard at work either, which I don't think has aided things when you consider I use an ergo one at home all of the time, so using an ordinary one 2 days a week is a bit of a pain in the arse, and the finger for that matter.
Yet again then another day at work where I don't even stop for lunch, I just keep plodding through all the pages that need to be built, have content added and of course building it nicely so that its using CSS and is accessible/usable. Its a bit laborious to say the least, as the old site which I'm taking content from is wholly done with tables, so its not easy to extract the content by looking at the source code as it is just viewing it via a web browser and cutting and pasting the text. That of course though means that I have to go in and add the appropriate tags for formatting.
By 7pm I'm finished for the day, the site isn't finished but I'm starting to make mistakes, so I figure I'd rather call it a day than having to keep rectifying things that I am breaking because I'm tired, so I head home.
Some of the residents of Botton
Not much going on this evening either, well there isn't much left of it! We get take out for dinner because I'm in no mood to cook, and then watch "The Strangest Village In Britain" - a documentary about a isolated village called Botton which is effectively a safe haven for people with disabilities like autism and downs syndrome. The village has been established for over 50 years and provides a home and a job for the 135 residents. It's an interesting piece of film and whilst the village has received professional criticism (suggesting people with learning difficulties should be part of a wider community) it seems to be doing a fine job to me, with many of the residents being alot more active and sociable than they might otherwise be if they were left to the mercies of society as a whole and social services.
Posted by Abi on the June 16, 2005 9:52 PM
Any reasonable editor can strip-out/replace those table-tr-td tags with some scan-replace (even Notepad which I use at work can do that). You still have to do some editing but it preserve links and other elements.