Huh?
How could you be totally unaware that a 10-centimeter (4 inch) nail has been stuck in your head for six days? Full Story. Thanks a few folks for the link, mostly William.
SNL Transcripts
This is why the Internet is wonderful. Where else can you find 2,524 transcripts from Saturday Night Live?
Flame Warriors
Every person who starts (or participates) in a flame war generally can be described just like one of these folks.
Microsoft Rules The HyperText Transfer Protocol?
More by accident (and thanks to Firefox’s autosearch if it can’t find the URL), I accidently typed “http” (and that’s it) into my URL field. Firefox, by default, goes to Google, and then directs you to the first result it finds. What I thought was interesting is that first site when you search for http is Microsoft, followed by Yahoo, Altavista, World Wide Web Consortium, CNN, Excite, Lycos, Amazon, Adobe, and Mapquest (rounding out the top 10). Google shows up on page two, along with The New York Times, Netscape, Real, the World Health Organization, Mozilla.org, Ask.com, IMDB, Winzip, and PHP.net.
Similar results for other protocols aren’t happening because, generally, other protocols are used in product/site names (FTP, Gopher, NNTP, etc…).
I do find it interesting the variety of types of links that are showing up. For the most part, this is a “Who’s Who” of the Web. Anybody have any theories on why certain sites are showing up here versus others?
I’m A Dork
I just spent an hour trying to troubleshoot a problem with a PHP script I have for my work site. It’s a simple script that takes the contents of a CSV file and dumps it into a MySQL database. Before I left on Friday, the thing worked fine. I get back here today, suddenly the thing doesn’t work.
So I’m sitting there, racking my brain on why the file wasn’t working. It appeared OK, but something still wasn’t working. Then I started blaming our crappy DOS-based reservation system for screwing with the file, I started screaming and cussing out the scripts it uses, etc… .
Then I actually opened up the CSV file in Pico from a Unix command line and noticed a lot of funny characters. Then I realized what had happened: My FTP program was putting the thing on the server in binary format instead of ASCII. So I just wasted an hour on something stupid that took about three seconds to fix.
/me is stupid. Hopefully the rest of the day won’t be filled with as much boneheadedness.
Honey, I’m Home!
As previously mentioned, I got snipped over the weekend. The surgery went well. I’m feeling fine, not sore at all (the only part that’s bugging me is that the region down there that had to be shaved prior to surgery really itches). I have a bunch of Advil with me, just in case things hurt.
Anyhow, I took the weekend off, and am back to work today, and was greeted with a “Welcome back, here’s your gigantic list of stuff to-do” note along with about 700 e-mails that need to be gone through.
Don’t expect much blogging today — or expect a few posts as I procrastinate on all the crap I have to do.
Offline Through The Weekend
Why, you ask? Because I fallen into a few hundred dollars (my in-laws got some money from a sale of some property) so instead of buying something fun and stupid with the money, I’m going to go get snipped.
If you need me, I’ll be on my couch with a Pepsi in one hand, the remote in the other, and ice on my crotch.
Update on 1/15: It’s all over. Read the comments for my little report.