Mum (or any other relative), STOP READING! I’ll tell you in time :)
Here’s the secret I’ve been keeping for quite a while now. I can’t take it anymore! :lol:

I’m writing this on February 14th @ 0:50, not knowing if I will publish it now or later.

I just sent off my CSS article to a computer magazine, at 0:42 to be precise (and of course I forgot to change the email account with which to send it… I have too many on OL!). That’s the secret I’ve been rather unsuccessfully keeping. Quite a while ago, in December, I was contacted by an editor who had read my site and thought my combination of writing-skills and interest in computer was something rare, and he asked if I was interested in writing an article to their magazine.

:shock:

Of course, after belittling (or clarifying) my actual skills, and telling I was working AND studying thus worried if I had the time, I told him I was very interested. In his answer he said that if I felt I didn’t have the time now, I should keep this in mind and contact him later (persistent… I’m counting it as a compliment).

I was given a few topics to think about. One of them was close to my studies which I couldn’t get excited about (go figure :mrgreen: I told I probably couldn’t write coherently about that anyway), and one was CSS. Cascading style sheets, which due to many years of homepage making and obsessive-compulsive re-designing, I’m feeling very passionate about. The same night my bedside notepad started getting full of code bits, paragraphs (“witty” things), and things I want to cover — I didn’t get much sleep that night I tell you.

So, today I finished the article. I also made a little CSS demo page to go with it which shows some of the properties and values and what they look like in practice. I had great fun making it and some revelations too on the differences of browsers because I checked it on Mozilla, IE, Firefox and Opera (that one’s really crappy, by the way). I had made a firm decision to get it done this weekend and forced myself to send it today (in my mind it’s still Sunday). I would’ve kept reading and re-reading the text, checking and re-checking the grammar but as one of the greatest lecturers at Uni has said: translations [I’m expanding it to all texts] are like stews, you can cook them and cook them and they’ll just get better, so you’re going to have to decide they’re ready. Can you guess the lecturer in question is female?

Now I’m waiting anxiously — and terrified — on the verdict, and the final product: an article by me in an actual, tangible magazine. I don’t know if just writing the article guarantees it gets published, but I sure hope so :razz: I don’t know if it’ll be in the next issue because I don’t know how far (or actually close, if it’s far ahead, my article will probably be ready for it) ahead that is.

The newest issue of the magazine came out today, but my article wasn’t in it (I sent it in “too late”), and I’m going to have to wait for over a month for the next one (oooh, can’t wait!!).