What I did with my Wednesday
Mar. 2nd, 2005 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt's not all that hard to create keyboard layouts, as it turns out. (Anyone who wants to try it and is running Panther, go download Ukelele. Yes, it's spelled like that.) I haven't tried installing or running my experimental one yet, but I've made one, at least.
I made a cake tonight to take to the coffee hour tomorrow. I hadn't made this cake in years, even though it was my birthday cake through most of my teens. It tastes marvelous, and came out of the pan reasonably well, and I ate the bit that stuck for dessert. (Nobody'll miss it; the cake was baked in a tube pan and I was going to transport it in slices anyway.) There's something very satisfying about warm chocolate cake when it's snowing and you've been cold all day. I wonder if I can get creme de menthe in Kent? (The proper, as in birthday, way to eat this cake is with vanilla ice cream next to it and creme de menthe over both, since there's no frosting involved. It doesn't need any.)
It took me most of the afternoon to win a "there has to be a way to do this, dammit" argument with .phtml files, HTML to RTF, MS Word, Trados and Practicount. It would have been considerably easier in general if I had figured out earlier that if a filename has .phtml in it anywhere, I can change the name to anything I want as long as it ends in .phtml, and then the converter will do its thing. Instead, I went through several iterations of opening .phtml files in Notebook, swearing, trying to find the text buried in the code, swearing some more, saving the file as .txt, and hoping I could do something with it later. Of course, after I changed 130-odd filenames and got all 140-odd files converted to RTF, Trados decided it didn't like the RTF files, so I had to either spend another hour stripping the HTML-to-RTF advertising out of the files or run them through a different counting program. Which is why I used Practicount. I should strip the advertising anyway so I can run the files through Trados in the morning and find out whether Practicount was right when it said 32,217 words. (The pages aren't tremendously long, so it's possible. Some of them are only a picture and a link that says Previous Page.)
I think I also lost an argument with MultiTerm, or forgot something. I now have an input model for publications, but it keeps coming up where I don't want it and not coming up where I do. That, however, is a minor problem for the moment.
I made a cake tonight to take to the coffee hour tomorrow. I hadn't made this cake in years, even though it was my birthday cake through most of my teens. It tastes marvelous, and came out of the pan reasonably well, and I ate the bit that stuck for dessert. (Nobody'll miss it; the cake was baked in a tube pan and I was going to transport it in slices anyway.) There's something very satisfying about warm chocolate cake when it's snowing and you've been cold all day. I wonder if I can get creme de menthe in Kent? (The proper, as in birthday, way to eat this cake is with vanilla ice cream next to it and creme de menthe over both, since there's no frosting involved. It doesn't need any.)
It took me most of the afternoon to win a "there has to be a way to do this, dammit" argument with .phtml files, HTML to RTF, MS Word, Trados and Practicount. It would have been considerably easier in general if I had figured out earlier that if a filename has .phtml in it anywhere, I can change the name to anything I want as long as it ends in .phtml, and then the converter will do its thing. Instead, I went through several iterations of opening .phtml files in Notebook, swearing, trying to find the text buried in the code, swearing some more, saving the file as .txt, and hoping I could do something with it later. Of course, after I changed 130-odd filenames and got all 140-odd files converted to RTF, Trados decided it didn't like the RTF files, so I had to either spend another hour stripping the HTML-to-RTF advertising out of the files or run them through a different counting program. Which is why I used Practicount. I should strip the advertising anyway so I can run the files through Trados in the morning and find out whether Practicount was right when it said 32,217 words. (The pages aren't tremendously long, so it's possible. Some of them are only a picture and a link that says Previous Page.)
I think I also lost an argument with MultiTerm, or forgot something. I now have an input model for publications, but it keeps coming up where I don't want it and not coming up where I do. That, however, is a minor problem for the moment.
