Archive for 2007

geek stuff – handling Microsoft Word text in web development

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Note: Please contribute to this code in comments, if you find mistakes or know of improvements.
It’s surprising to most people – especially computer programmers, it seems – that the English language actually has more than one kind of single quote and one kind of double quote. In fact, if you go back to single-quote characters [...]

rejoice

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

In the wonder of old songs, ones you’ve forgotten or written off as dated or trite. How they comfort you in certain lonely moments. How they dig up old wounds and then gently, lovingly, lick them clean.

tears in the batter, venom in the sauce

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

I am beginning to understand cooking as a dark art that can perfect or destroy both diner and cook. As a result, I have come to understand how impure my motives have been, how I have cooked for some to seduce or compel admiration, and how I have waged war on others with what [...]

geek stuff: IE6 “Page cannot be displayed” fix in PHP

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

If you’re working with forms in PHP, and especially if you’re working with forms that have multiple steps, you’ve probably run across the “back button” problem in IE6. Here’s what it looks like:
1) you fill out a form and click the “submit” button – this takes you to another page.
2) you click the “back” [...]

discovered

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Blessings on the forgotten, and the wonderful, and the strange.

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