What's so wrong with eating poo. People act like it's some kind of evil thing, when worst that could happen you get a little sick. Jeez.

It seems I have a problem with not thinking about the ultimate goal of what I'm going before doing it. Denny keeps bringing that up, saying we've all gotta make sure we're doing what's worthwhile for the company. I'm talking about this because we finally both looked at the browser stats for Airpoints and saw that nearly all of our clients use IE. His stats said 99%, mine said 95%, which is a significant difference, but still an insignificant portion according to Jeff. And that's probably true. The part of me that wants to be right says that that's still 500 people, but statistically that's not enough to justify a change in our writing habits. In the end it doesn't matter.

So I was thinking, web standards is the Right Way, but what I should have been thinking is, this is a waste of precious time.

Well here's an idea: Fuck that shit. It's not that fucking hard to do it right. You only have to learn something new once every couple years, and it's not like it's fucking brain surgery.

Ok.

But anyway, it's not a big deal. I'm officially letting it go now; no more trying to convince them. I'll continue to try to do it right until I believe that it's a waste of time, but they're convinced it is and I'll accept that.

Bitches... :)

I've had three discussions about this in 2 days. It's one of those things where I have a stance that I haven't thought about much, but that I'm willing to defend on the fly. And once again I've come to the conclusion that I was wrong.

I've been arguing that it's wrong to accuse people of losing elections or throwing their vote away because they vote for who they agree with rather than the closest thing with a chance of winning. I first stated this opinion when talking with Dom. We didn't get into it much - I never understood a solid stance from him - but I did think it was interesting enough to bring up with Denny. He definitely disagreed with my opinion, arguing that people had to compromise sometimes. I don't think he understood what my argument was (understandable since I was working it out as I went) so that wasn't very satisfying. Also, he eventually started talking about the failings of the Green party, which is a totally different issue of course. I didn't end up very happy about the discussoin.

But when I got home Sherdl told me that Carol Mosley Braun dropped out, I thought it was a bad thing whereas she thought it was good. After a little discussion I realized that what was at issue was whether voters realized how many others felt the same way they did. That is, if people always said, "I like them but they'll never win" then the wrong person would get voted in and nothing would change. However, Shayna pretty much convinced me that, at least with presidential elections, everyone knows where they stand statistically. That's why they have polls - so that people can say what they think without compromising. Thus, since the Greens undoubtedly knew they were going to lose, they were effectively staying out of a very important election. Now that I write this though, I think I see something about polls: only polls that try to find the uncompromising choice are worthwhile; polls that ask "who are you going to vote for" are actually detrimental. I bet that few people know what they poll question actually was, or more likely that they haven't thought about this difference. So they assume that that is what people really believe is best and act accordingly. If all polls only asked "who is best" then everyone would have enough information as to whether they should compromise.

Well I've gotta eat, but I'll come back later. Don't you worry. oh yeah...

shiatsu...

I really want a good journal system, but I don't know where to put it. Paper isn't very secure and it's too slow. Also, I tend to lose books.

This is better because it's secure in that no one knows I have it (at least none of my friends or family) and of all sites, slashdot is probably the most robust. I'd like to be able to encrypt my stuff, but I'd also like to be able to use it wherever I go. Heh, I wonder how many other people here use this for the same reasons.

To summarize the plot thus far, I'm 22 years old, married with unborn children, and I work as a web developer for Airpoints, an "incentive managemnet" company. My life has been defined by a distinct lack of major challenges and an aptitude for singing and avoiding confrontation, though not necessarily in that order. Sure, there's more, but why give it all away now?

I'm going to try to write something in this journal every day. So uh... i guess i better write something. Well, today I talked with dominik about economics and politics and such. Crap. I gotta go. I'll talktya tomorrow.