Montréal Trip
We realized that the Montréal International Jazz Festival is scheduled from June 25 – July 6th. That festival is actually the biggest jazz thing in the World, which means that finding vacancies in the Montréal Bed ‘n Breakfast scene is going to be pretty sketchy, at best. And, naturally, that’s close to the best time, for us, to do this trip. Oh well, what can you do?
Meanwhile, I’m back on Facebook. I have all of the ‘applications’ and ‘games’ blocked, so I can use the site to stay somewhat in touch with the outside world, without being annoyed-to-death by that other stuff.
I’ve gone and gotten myself in another pro bono web site thing. I’m “fronting” web server space for a web site dealing with my old friends, the band called The Nils.
But wait, there’s more! I also grabbed their current site, which was on one of those freebie sort of sites, wherein you sign up, and get a cookie-cutter front end in which you fill in the blanks (for the text) and upload files like music or images. And get this, the entire site (not just my friends’ small part of it) has the style info embedded in every HTML tag. That is so 90s it’s awful.
So, I’m separating the mess, and then putting the site, with the same look-and-feel, back online in a properly formatted, standards-compliant (not to mention modern manner.
At least this is a project I volunteered for, rather than one in which I was corralled into what was supposed to be a professional, business venture for which I ended up being stiffed as far as remuneration. (To say nothing of financial losses, on my part). People kill me, sometimes.