Hats
In at least some parts of the country, nobody wears hats much these days. So the way to tell who's the Good Guys is they are the guys with the White Coffee Cups.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Triple-N is a new service that helps you find your way from here to there -- say for instance you are staring at a Blogger posting blank except it's not blank any more cuz you just filled in the box with some drivel and you want to suspend it and take it up later, so you want a key [combination] to instigate the process including maybe putting up a postit (why can't I have them layer-specific?) and the postit contains the button to continue ... Triple-N can help you by mapping the way from point A to point J (with the intermediate points lined up alphabetically by height*)
I tried saving the demiblog {half-completed posting} and reopening it, and crapola, not only did it open blank, but also it replaced the previous contents of the page. And there's NO WAY TO GO BACK. Just like Real Life!
*"Does this time line need to be in any particular order?" (from the Dilbert millieu)
I tried saving the demiblog {half-completed posting} and reopening it, and crapola, not only did it open blank, but also it replaced the previous contents of the page. And there's NO WAY TO GO BACK. Just like Real Life!
*"Does this time line need to be in any particular order?" (from the Dilbert millieu)
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Not the greatest HTML
Why can't we have better HTML? Although of course complex things get -- well -- complex, I don't think it's very hard to produce good basic HTML by hand, So why can't the fancy tools do fancy HTML well?
I've started studying the HTML 4.01 spec in earnest, and as a result looking somewhat askance at what's out there on the web. So far it looks like the worst offender is MicroSoft Front Page, at least of the really bad stuff I've investigated. (Often there is a "Generator" META tag, which I suppose you could call a brag tag, that claims responsibility for the atrocity.)
I can produce bad HTML with the tools I customarily use, but those same tools have built-in checkers, so I can find out right away, and I don't have an excuse not to.
These blogs don't have particularly clean HTML, and the blank page (Create New Post) has these errors as reported by iCab (don't try this at home, or at least without replacing the tag delimiters ( < and > ) with their disguises ( < and > ) ).
Warning (1/1): <!DOCTYPE> is missing.
Warning (190/1): The attribute "LEFTMARGIN" is not allowed for the tag <BODY>.
Warning (190/1): The attribute "TOPMARGIN" is not allowed for the tag <BODY>.
Error (190/1): The attribute "rightmargin" is not part of HTML.
Error (190/1): The attribute "bottommargin" is not part of HTML.
Error (190/1): In the tag <BODY> the attribute "MARGINWIDTH" is not allowed.
Error (190/1): In the tag <BODY> the attribute "MARGINHEIGHT" is not allowed.
Error (190/1): The attribute "onbeforeunload" is not part of HTML.
Warning (205/5): The attribute "BACKGROUND" is not allowed for the tag <TD>.
Warning (206/5): In the tag <TD> the attribute "WIDTH" should only contain absolute pixel values.
Warning (206/5): The attribute "BACKGROUND" is not allowed for the tag <TD>.
Warning (213/5): The attribute "BACKGROUND" is not allowed for the tag <TD>.
Warning (227/5): In the tag <TD> the attribute "WIDTH" should only contain absolute pixel values.
Warning (238/1): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <FORM>.
Warning (255/36): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <IMG>.
Error (256/11): In the tag <DIV> the attribute "WIDTH" is not allowed.
Error (265/5): Tags or text are not allowed here. The tag <TR> is missing.
Error (265/5): Tags or text are not allowed here. The tag <TD> is missing.
Warning (268/22): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <IMG>.
Warning (269/7): In the tag <TD> the attribute "WIDTH" should only contain absolute pixel values.
Warning (274/7): The attribute "WRAP" is not allowed for the tag <TEXTAREA>.
Error (274/7): In tag <TEXTAREA> the value "soft" is not valid for attribute "WRAP".
Warning (290/13): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <IMG>.
Error (297/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "BORDER" is not allowed.
Error (297/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "HSPACE" is not allowed.
Error (297/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "VSPACE" is not allowed.
Error (298/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "BORDER" is not allowed.
Error (298/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "HSPACE" is not allowed.
Error (298/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "VSPACE" is not allowed.
Warning (298/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "WIDTH" should only contain absolute pixel values.
Error (311/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "BORDER" is not allowed.
Error (311/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "HSPACE" is not allowed.
Error (311/13): In the tag <TD> the attribute "VSPACE" is not allowed.
Error (376/5): The attribute "vvalign" is not part of HTML.
Warning (377/36): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <IMG>.
Warning (378/7): In the tag <TD> the attribute "WIDTH" should only contain absolute pixel values.
Error (391/1): Invalid characters in tag or attributes.
Error (391/1): The attribute "/" is not part of HTML.
Warning (402/36): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <IMG>.
Warning (406/36): The attribute "NAME" is not allowed for the tag <IMG>.
Start with Cold Water
Yeah, they say that but they don't say why. (In case you hadn't guessed, this is about making coffee). It's not too hard to figure out -- "they" don't want you to blame them for blah-tasting coffee if you use hot water, and it is true that some people's hot water tastes crappy. Just this week I actually found something where they came right out and said that.
When they don't say why, just give the admonition, you have to wonder how many people will think "oh my, it might give me a heebiejeebie case of recalcitrant plebney so I'd better not use hot water"
Well, I'm here to say that I put hot water in my little hotpot (to get it even hotter), and the bottom of the pot is aluminum, and it hasn't hurt me or my coffee.
No cherished traditions were harmed in the making of this blog. (We hope.)
Gotta try this -- save this page (blank) as a web archive (with my favorite browser, iCab (Mac only) and see if the next time I open it I can just post from there, and I'm also gonna try it as a bookmark. There might be some instructions on the site about how these things work but I can't read.
This is only a simulated test. See disclaimer.
This is only a simulated test. See disclaimer.
The Never-Empty Ketchup Bottle
Topping Off the Heinz
You've seen them around; you can appreciate a classy joint by the fact that when you take the top off a full bottle of ketchup, it's (1) not overly full, and (2) actually sealed because it's NEW. Not refilled.
It is so accepted in the US that ketchup bottles will be filled every night, just like the salt shakers, that somebody even makes a double-ended screw-on coupling for putting two bottles together so one can be emptied into another. But there's a contradiction here. I've been talking about the bottles that never get emptied. Maybe these coupling devices are a good thing, enabling the odd bottle here and there to actually get emptied, then (gasp!) WASHED OUT!!
Heinz does have a nicely designed bottle, but putting anything other than Heinz ketchup into a Heinz bottle ought to be illegal, and perhaps in some places it is. I hope so.
Maybe I should not worry about this since I'm on a low-carb diet now and I don't use ketchup any more.
Monday, March 15, 2004
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
On our Good Neighbor Policy:
This page will give you an idea of how we habitually shit too close to the house.
This page will give you an idea of how we habitually shit too close to the house.
I'm an Atkins dieter so i do a lot of eggs, and I'm always trying to think of new ways to deal with them. So I've just invented a new egg dish -- Eggs Chiffon, which is eggs scrambled with Cottage Cheese (Large Curd -- you could also make eggs chiffon, which is made with small curd cottage cheese.) It turned out pretty good. Here's the recipe.
Ingredients:
Eggs
Cottage Cheese
Equipment:
Frying pan
Spatula
Fire
Procedure
Scramble ingredients together
Eat.
Ingredients:
Eggs
Cottage Cheese
Equipment:
Frying pan
Spatula
Fire
Procedure
Scramble ingredients together
Eat.
Monday, March 08, 2004
Barry Smith's "Irrelativity" - Smot Poking
Yeah, they say that poking smot makes you apathetic, but so what? I don't care.
Yeah, they say that poking smot makes you apathetic, but so what? I don't care.
Friday, March 05, 2004
Too blah to blog yesterday, my annual cold came for its visit.
I have damned little Suphedrin (Sudafed) left, and thanks to the idiots in Washingburg I can't replenish. Stupid MFs. Just another brick in the wall -- the one that's gonna come crashing down on this sorry-ass civilization. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day; they took a long time to screw up a good thing. Good for them, anyway, and not so good for their conquerees. So let it be with Sneezer, which is perhaps a good name for Dubya, or maybe Dopey is better.
I have damned little Suphedrin (Sudafed) left, and thanks to the idiots in Washingburg I can't replenish. Stupid MFs. Just another brick in the wall -- the one that's gonna come crashing down on this sorry-ass civilization. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day; they took a long time to screw up a good thing. Good for them, anyway, and not so good for their conquerees. So let it be with Sneezer, which is perhaps a good name for Dubya, or maybe Dopey is better.
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
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