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Time for another round of awesome Flash movies:

• Hoy te amo — For some weird reason, this Flash movie reminds me of The Girl.
• Walk-Smash-Walk — Weird techno music video thingy.
• Dad's Home — Scenes of randomness. I almost choked to death on my own laughter when watching this.

  "If every coming scene of this animation is completely unpredictable to you, then I have succeeded. Enjoy!"

• Fallen Angel: Teaser — Insanely nice and smooth animation. Level of detail astonishing.

I've also updated various parts of my site a bit:

• Updated the HTML Tutorial with two new sections: Further reading and Beyond HTML.
• Added styles to my headings. (Finally.)
• Added letter-by-letter jump-to links for the Glossary.

LotR: BfME kicks so much ass. You should play it.

body {
  visibility: hidden;
}

Even if you don't know CSS, this should be funny. :-)

I invited The Girl to watch a movie with me this Sunday, and she accepted. Woho! We're not going to the movies (or cinema) though; we're going to watch it at home. If I'm interpreting this correctly, she must like me. This could be awesome.

If you miss my geeky side, don't worry; it will return in due time.

I invite everyone interested to join Kimmo's IRC channel, #webgurus at Freenode. See the channel website for more info. Although Kimmo initially started it, I sometimes feel like a co-founder. At least, I spend a good amount of time there, and collaborate on the website. (The style, for instance, is mine.) Not anymore.

There's not much news on the girl I really like (the name will be hidden for now. I'm sure you understand). I have this gnawing feeling in the back of my mind that we'll "only" be friends.

So, I'm in love! This is so cool, because the girl in question is utterly sweet and seems to be very smart. I need to spend more time with her to get to know her better, but that shouldn't be hard as I feel really comfortable around her; she doesn't seem to be too interested in small-talk, and that suits me just fine. What's so cool about her is that we both are able to sit in a room and not say a word to each other. And when we do talk, it's about interesting, meaningful stuff. I haven't been in love with anyone for about four years, so I kind of lack experience... Oh well... If she likes me, she'll try to make it work. If she doesn't, she doesn't, and that's perfectly fine; I'm ok with being "just" friends.

I do not want to ruin this... I have to be careful.

In more boring, geeky news: My site reaches new heights of correctness and standards compliance; I have converted all my character entity references into real characters, and now use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 on request from Alexander Krivács Schrøder.

Made a Contact page.

The observant reader might have noticed that I used HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1 interchangably on pages, depending on whether or not they contained MathML. I did this because I felt that since I advocate HTML 4.01 over XHTML as far as that's possible, I should use HTML 4.01 too. So I did, for selective pages. That involved a few nasty PHP hacks, so I decided to get rid of them and use XHTML on all pages again. I know what I'm doing. ;-)

I got a comment on that Christmas comment I made. I'm usually not vague like that, but sometimes even I have to vent. I see it like this: On avarage, person A will buy a gift for person B with approximately the same value as the gift person B buys for person A. So why don't person A and B just buy themselves whatever it is that they want? If I order a Hyundai 21" DynaFlat-X CRT monitor, I'm virtually guaranteed to get that, whereas if I wish for the same product for Christmas, I might get it, or I might get an uncomfortable, itchy sweater that I'll never use. What's the point of that?