…just busy. I’m working on one of those “we need it done two weeks ago” sort of projects at work. The problem is that it’s one of those drudgery projects. The program isn’t anything creative and fun. It’s mainly just taking a big HTML form and doing a huge buttwad of error checking on the data the user entered. Bbbooorrriiinnnggg. But it has to be done….
This is the world’s smallest website. Really. [via Dithered (via milov {via sepi.be})]
I had some errands to run during my lunch hour today, so I decided to eat at the mall near my work. I settled on Manchu Wok, mainly because they recently added spring rolls to their menu. Big mistake. When I think of spring rolls, my mind conjures up images of a crispy fried pastry wrapper, with tasty, steaming veggies inside — cabbage (or maybe bok choi?), carrots (orange, not purple), and whatever else it … Continue reading
Everybody knows that carrots are orange, right? Wrong. Go get yourself some purple carrots.
Have you ever tried to send some mondo-long URL to somebody by email, but the darned thing wraps, and they wind up having to cut and paste it back together just to visit the site? Apparently lots of people have that problem, or problems similar to that. But no more! Now we have URLizer to give us short, clean links! [via:
I can see from my referer logs that lots of people find this page while searching for something specific from search engines like Google. And a lot of them probably had trouble actually finding the story that the search engine had indexed. I’ve just added a search feature to this site, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble anymore.
Suze and I went to see Spider-Man last night. It was good. I expected to be entertained, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the movie. Of course, the special effects were fantastic. I expected that. But the best part was that the characters were well done, and they did a really good job of sticking to the essential elements of the comic book. They took a couple of artistic liberties here and … Continue reading
I’ve always liked things like fractals and the works of M.C. Escher — the combination of mathematics and art holds a certain fascination for me. So I thought that this link to the Japanese Tesselation Design Association was really cool. That page reminded me of a book that my mom got me when I was a teenager. It was called Inversions, and it’s by a guy named Scott Kim. If anyone is interested, you can … Continue reading
Yeah, yeah…. No updates in a while. I’ve been in the zone at work, and haven’t had time to get online from home. Over the last week or so, I’ve spent a lot of time hacking my way through some SOAP::Lite and XMLRPC::Lite voodoo. After converting one of my perl libraries into a proper module, I was able to implement an XML-RPC server in about 7 lines of code (20 lines, if you include blank … Continue reading
Brent just let me know that there is a problem with my XML/RSS/RDF (whatever you call it) syndication. The problem is that the permalink URLs generated here use ampersands (&) to separate GET variables. XML requires you to escape ampersands by using the & entity. I’ll investigate a fix when I find time. Update @ 15:20 — Took a quick look. Actually, it wasn’t the ampersands after all. The root of the problem was some … Continue reading