Via NTK, Die, old witch.

I’ve found something on sourceforge like one of the applications I’m writing to keep myself busy – dotgone-office. It looks like a java app.

Nice, well written article on using css to save javascript on image rollovers.

Apparently Microsoft and Unisys ‘have the way out’ but they can’t show you it. Their showcase site was run on FreeBSD and Apache until the media hammered them for it, then it crapped out when they switched it to IIS. And what did it crap out with? You guessed it, ‘This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed’. There’s a screenshot in the article at theregister but it doesn’t include the url.
According to Yahoo, ‘The “We have the way out” campaign describes Unix as an expensive trap. One ad reads: “No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts. It makes you struggle daily with a server environment that’s more complex than ever.” ‘.

Sourceforge is doing a google, and serving me Dutch language content. I don’t know what language preferences the browser is sending cos I’m in a net cafe that’s locked out options, but it could be that or my ip. I know google was probably doing it on ip cos I could set my language preferences in ie and netscape at work.

You wanna know what sucks? It seems that half the things that php/apache can’t do when running under Windows (sue me, it’s the only dev environment I’ve got) are the things a) I really want to do, and b) the things that make scripts more robust. $PHP_SELF has a mind of it’s own under windows, and here docs don’t work.

Yeah, baby, you know you want it.

A note for leanna from olympia, washington who asked,
“Dear Departed Di,
aren,t you suppose to be dead!!!!!!”
Well, yes, that’s why it says, she speaks ‘from beyond the grave’.

The trouble with children’s books… according to an interview with a childrens’ book author in the Saturday Extra (from mid-March) about the difficulties of publishing books with realistic action that will attract boys because of the need for co-edition publishing in the US, an illustrator ‘had to take the udders off a cow before they would release the book in the US’. The author also says, ‘because of the Bible belt, we can’t write about the supernatural, magic and witches, horror, etc.’. Also, ‘writers cannot denigrate teachers or their authority’. The most amazing statement of all is that the author of the Harry Potter books that have got not only kids but adults reading fiction again, J.K. Rowling, ‘is in the top-five banned authors’, ‘meaning government subsidy money cannot be used to purchase her books’.

I’ve had another idea for a reality tv show. I think it’s better than my previous idea for a show where TV producers sit around trying to decide on the next reality tv show, and are voted off one by one.
Here’s my pitch:
One house. Twelve residents. Twelve camera crews. Which crew will survive? You decide.
Camera Crew Challenge. There can be only one.