How To Kill 3 Hours
7 August 2002
HOW TO KILL 3 HOURS AND GET FRUSTRATED
First, make sure you are a novice when it comes to editing and reading HTML code. Then, go try to sign up for the extreme tracker for your weblog. You’ll fill their silly little form out from top to bottom at least 3 times before you get ”authorized.” It took 5 times for me.
Finally, just try to find in your home page template where it is that you’re supposed to paste the extreme tracker HTML so that their little icon shows up and the site metering really works. You’ll cut, copy and paste the code in 4 or 5 places trying to make your weblog refresh in the browser without giving errors. Ultimately, you’ll delete it all, search for whatever problem continues to give browser errors, watch that problem mysteriously disappear and you’ll quit.
You’ll realize that all HTML coding is trial-and-error work going back and forth between possible syntax changes and a browser to see if your syntax changes produced the result you wanted. Nothing about HTML coding is predictable beyond bold, italic and underline. At least no one has shown me the tools that make any of it predictable.
Goodnight!
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