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I passed my exam! I got 88%, 54 questions right out of 61. I'm well chuffed. I had no idea whether I would pass or not right up until when they told me my mark. The test was pretty hard. I had a good twenty minutes at the end to check through my answers and there were a good fifteen that I wasn't confident about. I think I may have been quite lucky in some of my choices.

I got a good breakdown of the test. Threads and garbage collection were my weak points. Especially threads. GC isn't so bad, there were three questions, I got one wrong. Overall, I got 100% in five of the nine areas.

All in all this is my best exam performance since about 1995. I think it may also be the first time I've revised since then. I did work moderately hard on the revision.

Afterwards I celebrated with a trip to Blackmarket Records and a new Warp t-shirt from Selectadisc. To be honest, that was more my usual pattern of rewarding myself for going to Soho. Used the tube competently again, well done me.

For my upcoming ALA article (man, saying that feels good, even if it doesn't get published), I would like to be able to draw on the feelings of major designers. To this end I'm thinking about sending a simple questionnaire to the web teams responsible for a number of high profile sites.

I'm not sure what the questions will be, but here's some rough ideas:

1. Why do you use appropriate layout system to layout xyz.com?
2. if the page is tables Why don't you use CSS for layout? CSS is very powerful. Is it because you don't know about CSS, don't know how to recreate your layout in CSS or some other reason? else if the page is CSS Why don't you use tables? They're tried and trusted
3. Why is design important for your site? may get the answer "because everybody else has it" which would be fruitless
4. If you could change one thing about HTML+CSS to make it a little easier to do your job, what would that be?
5. Do the designers at your location design pages bottom-up by writing code or top-down, using tools such as Illustrator, Freehand, Photoshop or the Gimp?

The other thing to think about is mentioning my ideas. If I say I want to put the grids back into web design, will that influence the answers? Probably. Do I want this? Not sure, I wouldn't mind feedback on my ideas from the people running the top sites on the net.

Another Jake Gylenhaal performance and another really good one, fantastic facial expressions. I really liked this film because it asked questions about time and reality and all that stuff we're used to but not in a science fiction way, but through Donnie's psychological troubles.

Wonderfully, there was almost no ending at all. My flatmate Tom saw similarities between it and Jacob's Ladder, but I'm not sure of the value of that comparison. Still, I thought it was really cool.

For a while I've been aware that there is a problem with including the XML prolog (<?xml version="1.0"?>) in XHTML documents, but nobody has explained what it was and I didn't bother to go looking. However, it puts IE 6 into "render like IE 5" mode which seems pretty dumb, however, it answers a few questions.

I will be removing the prolog from the pages on this site sometime soon.

Wandering through Fulham today I saw Simon Hughes, mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats, campaigning. So I stopped and asked him some questions. I started by asking him about online government and what his feelings were about it, he said we need more, but had no immediate concrete ideas, he alluded to the lib dems being up on this sort of thing generally and talked about regular consultation of Londoners, though not solely online. He started into policy shpiel so I cut him off relatively quickly by mentioning faxyourmp.com and asked him if he had heard of it. He said he had and when I questioned him about his response rate replied openly, saying he had started out badly, but had got better (his page on theyworkforyou.com says he replied to 42% of faxes). I also asked him about theyworkforyou.com and again he replied that he thought it was a good idea. I told him that my most burning issue with this set of elections was the number of people who weren't going to vote in them and he very much agreed with me on that. However, at this point (about five minutes in) he wound the conversation up, not unpleasantly, but he obviously didn't want to stand and debate with me all day. He finished by saying that he was the youngest and most modern of the candidates and to make sure I used my vote on Thursday.

As I walked back to the flat I thought of loads of other questions to ask him, but there you go. It was an interesting encounter, but I can't let being starstruck sway me really. He didn't convince me of much, but that was because he was on the sell. I guess no candidate can afford not to be at the moment. I would have liked to ask him "why shouldn't I vote for Ken" and got a short, pithy and brutally honest answer, but there would be no chance of that. The outcome of the whole event is no effect, I'm still just as unsure as I was before! The issues are all a bit student president for my liking., keeping the tubes open etc. The first and second choice model for the mayoral election means that I'm considering playing fast and loose with my first choice, but I'm realistically very attracted to both the Greens and the Lib Dems. However, I'm feeling defensive, I don't want to see Steven Norris elected, but I hope there's little chance of that.

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