#1, sure. I can understand the curiosity about #2. But #3? I thought that was pretty widely known.
Widely known enough not to be the third highest entry in Google Suggest!
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How Do You Know You’re In Hell?
When you die, if in the place you go after you die, you see anything like the Bill of Rights, you know you’re in Hell. Because a Bill of Rights in Heaven would be an affront to God; it would imply that He is untrustworthy. —Dr. Walter E. Williams, Rush Limbaugh Program, September 4, 2009
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Fortran Programming II
Programming in Fortran is like being human: You can do it right, but most of the time you don’t.
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I Still Do
A decade ago this evening at about ten minutes after seven o’clock, I said, “I will.”
I still do.
Luv you, Dearest.
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Obligation
My inconsistency has no bearing on your obligation.
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Sugar Scrub
I am reading Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS, and in it he encourages looking for Web design inspiration in places other than the Web: cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines, buildings, to name a few. (This is something I’ve done for some time now, but I’ve been making a more conscious effort of late, given his advice.)
This morning I picked up a tube of my wife’s facial scrub. I looked for anything interesting in the design on the front. Then I looked at the back, which contains, among other things, an ingredient list. I wasn’t scanning the ingredient list as much as my eyes just happened to fall on one word:
Saliva.
Saliva! They put saliva in facial scrub? I looked again.
Salvia.
Salvia officinalis (sage) leaf extract. Ah, helps to keep reading past the line break.
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Arden, Hannah, Whatever
Our two-year-old has finally begun to talk and build a vocabulary. Folks who know about this kind of thing tell me that the American English R is one of the most difficult sounds for kids to learn to enunciate.
As you can imagine then, Whitby has a difficult time pronouncing his older sister’s name, Arden. So he pronounces it “Hannah.” A natural and logical approximation, I’m sure you’ll agree.
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A Good Thing
He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord. —Proverbs 18:22 (NKJV)
Hmm. Never says that about husbands. Coincidence?
Ever seen this pop up in Internet Explorer 6 (or 7)?
This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?
You spend hours combing through server-side source, hours more combing through client-side source, and yet more hours sniffing and poring over headers, and nothing. Nothing HTTP when it should be HTTPS.
Well this could be your problem, yet another non sequitur brought to you by Microsoft:
This problem occurs if the Web page script calls the removeChild() method to delete a DIV element that references a background image. —http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925014
This only appears to happen when the style is inline. In other words, say you have something like this:
<div id="err" style="background-image:url(err.gif)">
Nee!
</div>If you attempt to vaporize that div with removeChild(), you’re suddenly no longer secure.
Okaaay. Make sense to you? Makes sense to me!
Firefox, take me away!
I read this short passage in a blog post by a fellow named Andy Swan:
Let’s be careful here that we don’t throw away our future liberty in order to avoid present pain. It’s not the American way. In fact, it’s the exact opposite.—http://andyswan.com/blog/?p=147
Exactly. Do you realize how many of the men who participated in the American revolution—men who were very wealthy in their day—died penniless because they sided with the colonists? They never saw the benefits that their sacrifice would bring about. We are hardly following in their footsteps in light of the way our nation appears to be so eager to force our children to bear later the pain that we are unwilling to bear today.
“Not the American way.” It occurs to me that it’s not the human—or perhaps I should say, humane—way. Throughout the history of this world, people of every tribe and tongue have sacrificed their wants, and even needs, to provide a better existence for their children.
The most disturbing crimes that we hear of are the ones in which a parent subjects his/her own offspring to some form of abuse. The only difference in this case is that the abuse is not immediate; it is set in a time bomb that will detonate in a generation, and by then no one will be able to diffuse it.
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire … .—2 Kings 17:17 (NKJV)