{"id":254,"date":"2005-02-23T18:26:33","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/14\/nervous-excitement"},"modified":"2014-02-02T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:48:27","slug":"nervous-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/nervous-excitement","title":{"rendered":"Nervous excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mum<\/strong> (or any other relative), STOP READING!<\/strong> I’ll tell you in time \":)\"
\nHere’s the secret I’ve been keeping for quite a while now. I can’t take it anymore! \":lol:\"
\n<\/p>\n

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I’m writing this on February 14th @ 0:50, not knowing if I will publish it now or later.<\/p>\n

I just sent off my CSS article to a computer magazine, at 0:42 to be precise (and of course I forgot to change the email account with which to send it… I have too many on OL<\/abbr>!). That’s the secret I’ve been rather unsuccessfully keeping. Quite a while ago, in December, I was contacted by an editor who had read my site and thought my combination of writing-skills and interest in computer was something rare, and he asked if I was interested in writing an article to their magazine.<\/p>\n

\":shock:\"<\/p>\n

Of course, after belittling (or clarifying) my actual skills, and telling I was working AND studying thus worried if I had the time, I told him I was very interested. In his answer he said that if I felt I didn’t have the time now, I should keep this in mind and contact him later (persistent… I’m counting it as a compliment).<\/p>\n

I was given a few topics to think about. One of them was close to my studies which I couldn’t get excited about (go figure \":mrgreen:\" I told I probably couldn’t write coherently about that anyway), and one was CSS. Cascading style sheets, which due to many years of homepage making and obsessive-compulsive re-designing, I’m feeling very passionate about. The same night my bedside notepad started getting full of code bits, paragraphs (“witty” things), and things I want to cover — I didn’t get much sleep that night I tell you.<\/p>\n

So, today I finished the article. I also made a little CSS demo page to go with it which shows some of the properties and values and what they look like in practice. I had great fun making it and some revelations too on the differences of browsers because I checked it on Mozilla, IE, Firefox and Opera (that one’s really crappy, by the way). I had made a firm decision to get it done this weekend and forced myself to send it today (in my mind it’s still Sunday). I would’ve kept reading and re-reading the text, checking and re-checking the grammar but as one of the greatest lecturers at Uni has said: translations [I’m expanding it to all texts] are like stews, you can cook them and cook them and they’ll just get better, so you’re going to have to decide<\/i> they’re ready. Can you guess the lecturer in question is female?<\/p>\n

Now I’m waiting anxiously — and terrified — on the verdict, and the final product: an article by me<\/i> in an actual, tangible magazine. I don’t know if just writing the article guarantees it gets published, but I sure hope so \":razz:\" I don’t know if it’ll be in the next issue because I don’t know how far (or actually close, if it’s far ahead, my article will probably be ready for it) ahead that is.<\/p>\n

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The newest issue of the magazine came out today, but my article wasn’t in it (I sent it in “too late”), and I’m going to have to wait for over a month for the next one (oooh, can’t wait!!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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