September 2003
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Close Your Tags in XHTML
During some conversations today, I found out that neither my experimental site nor my regular site was rendering in Mozilla. The culprit is not a new one. I had added some formatting to the page and forgot to close my tags….
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That French Paradox
How do the French indulge in such guilty pleasures as thick, creamy sauces and rich, buttery desserts, yet stay so slim? While only 7 percent of the French are considered obese, a whopping 30 percent of Americans are considered over the limit. This mystery has confounded overeating Americans…
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Hermaphrodite, Heal Thyself
By a show of hands, who in the audience thinks it is a good idea to find someone on the Internet to castrate you in your own home? You, over there near Pittsburgh – what were you thinking?!? Were you thinking at all? As bizarre as this story…
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Human Condition
This morning, I read about a kid who beat a puppy to death with a board. Why? He said that it felt good. It felt good? To beat a puppy? Until it died? Where do we find these people? I don't care how much you dislike something -…
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Licensing Theory
Yesterday I mentioned the disturbing trend of our society to take what can legally be taken. Common courtesy be damned. I really think people ought to consider the consequences of screwing their neighbor, but hey. That's up to you….
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Infrastructure Upgrades
I often have to change the location of web pages, and try to make sure nothing breaks in the process. Ideally, you won't see any changes at all, and clients won't lose any functionality whatsoever….
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A Sense of Entitlement
Earlier today, I read a disturbing post at Mezzoblue. For those who don't know, Dave Shea is the creator and caretaker of the CSS Zen Garden. If you haven't visited the garden to see the designs that people come up with using pure CSS (no mucking about with…
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Just Another Bowl?
In the beginning (not that beginning), there was the Bud Bowl. Then the Butt Bowl. Now we have the Lingerie Bowl. I know, I know, I missed the announcement earlier this summer. Better late than never, right? So they say that these women will be playing 7-on-7 full…
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AS400 SQL
I had to use more SQL than usual the other day. It had been a while since I had much call to use SQL in my job for something more than a simple query, however. I needed to use it to update some records in a file as…
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Political Affiliation
I probably most closely align myself with the Libertarian point of view. I'm not always sure if I agree with the Libertarian Party point of view, but I would definitely consider myself a Libertarian at heart. I recently read a book about this very topic. It gets a…