Fun with links!

[abilouise]

How many people were reading my journal when I was talking about getting the HTML book to learn how to edit my own fucken website? Anyway, I am working on day 5, which is learning how to use links. So you all will suffer the wrath of my learning.
Eh. Fuck learning. I just hit a concept in the book that is the first one, I swear, that she does not explain in a way that I can understand. If anyone wants to explain relative and absolute pathnames to me in terms I will understand, be my guest. There may be fabulous prizes!
In other news I baked rye bread tonight but it came out more crumby than I wanted or expected it to. Phoo. But it still tastes great with good butter. No sandwiches though I think. And anyway, I don't think I'll ever be able to bake rye bread the way I really want it to come out. My least favorite thing about living outside of the metro New York area. sigh...

Comments

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

An absolute pathname is like saying "Bob Smith"; a relative pathname is like saying "my father's sister Jane's son Bob".

Er... darnit, now I feel like I'm in talking-to-five-year-old mode *and* I've made an unintentional pun. Um.

So, I think the problem is that I don't know whether you want the *concept* itself or you want to know more about how the mechanics match the concept. Not, mind you, that I'm sure I'd be able to explain it in any case!

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

I think that my blockage is actually more to do with *why* I would need to learn this and what it is useful for, rather than what it is, which is a fine point but the one that I mostly get stuck on. I remember learning math concepts in school and once I got it I would be totally homework-incapacitated with the issue of WHY would I ever *want* to know/be able to do this? It's a personal weirdness I think. Makes massage school and cooking and changing the tube on my bicycle easy but many other things hard.

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

Ahh. Sounds like kilroi already said some of what I would say about why. I do have one other "why" point, which starts with "back in the day, web.mit.edu and www.mit.edu were actually different servers, and sometimes one would be down when the other was up." I need to run off right now, but I'll try to remember to write the rest of it!