Capt. Mondo's World o' Mondo-ness

This has been a major writing day, as will be tomorrow. Today I concentrated on putting to bed my articles for The Computer Paper. I finished off my Web Weaving article on what promises to be a short series on Internet Explorer CSS extensions, beginning with changing scrollbar colours. Can see at least another two or three articles arising from this topic, and at least one of them (dealing with Ruby values) is going to be a real challenge.

Also wrote up the first in what promises to be an interesting series of articles on how to create your own MAME arcade cabinet. In fact, with my notes, I’ve already got the better part of the second article in this series already written, but will hold off finishing it off for the moment. No luck as yet with pitching the idea as a book topic, but will bide my time until more articles are under my belt.

Was planning on writing a “Top 10 Websites About MAME”, and managed to get half-way through it when good ol’ Rogers cable let me down again, and my Internet access has been down for the past couple of hours (it just came back up now, otherwise this would be dated for tomorrow). So instead, am currently working on the third in the Flash Forward series of articles, still dealing with pretty basic stuff, but it will lead to more interesting stuff. I believe in laying a firm foundation in the basics before moving on to the more complicated stuff.

I had planned on getting my haircut today, but got into a writing “groove” and just plugged away at the heyboard instead. After finishing off the MAME arcade cabinet article, I went upstairs for a good long hot soak in the tub. It was great: reading the Globe, soaking up the warmth and comfort of the water, and listening to Finkleman’s 45s (and deliberately trying to tune out the rants of the host – great music, but I’d happily drop the often right-wing, and sometimes just plain loopy commentary from its host). Reading the Globe was a good antidote, especially the story that ran about all of the interesting stories that haven’t played in the media since the Sept 11th tragedy.