Why does nobody use the <label> tag? Why why why?

These people totally miss the main usefulness of the label tag. Use it for the text of a checkbox or radio button, jeez.

It works like this:

Check 1 Check 2 , or Radio 1 Radio 2 .

It's really not hard.

Slashdot: CmdrTaco comments about the Buffy musical, and links to a Salon article about it. Search down in the Slashdot comments for more stuff on Buffy. What's that about Jumping the Shark?

By the way, this post is really an adjunct to the one from yesterday, but new day, new post.

Aaaah! the "episode ... ran some eight minutes over the show's regular runtime, potentially causing riots across the land among fans who didn't set their VCRs to catch the overhang". That's me! I missed 8 minutes of the show!

The author calls the episode "spectacular". It really was a great episode.

From Scripting News: "Jay Allen has an interesting theory about perpetual motion in the Daytop Top-40." - holy crap that really is interesting. (Unfortunately his weblog is all but unreadable - hurts my eyes)

Is there any way to have scripts run with the access rights of the user who created them? Sort of like what CGIWrap does, but without CGIWrap.

I really want to know what aaron uses for his weblog. I know he rolled his own, and he has a lot of Perl on his site, so it probably uses that, but I really want to know he got URLs to look like this: http://www.aaronland.net/weblog/archive/252 - Apache's Mod_Rewrite? I think that's the only way to do it (unless you use something other than Apache), but for some reason I keep hoping to find some secret trick that no one else knows about that will let me make cool URLs like that without it. The best I could do was to use links like /weblog/?id910.

The thing that's important, especially for links you want to keep permanent, is to hide the technology you use. For instance, it would be annoying to have used something like "/weblog/index.php3?id=910", since if I ever decided to move to, say, asp (mwa ha ha), I'd have to change all my URLs. The way it is now, I can rip out the technology, replace it with something else, and keep the urls the same, should I so choose. It's just that having something like "/weblog/910" would just be cooler.

Remember, cool URIs don't change, and good URLs are part of interface design.

More Like This says it uses Mod_Rewrite, and points to this article to explain how it's done. Cool. Well what do you know? I just got to the end of the article and it turns out it was written by him (Bill Humphries).

One more thing. Using Mod_Rewrite is cool and all, but while without it you tie yourself to specific URLs (but like I said earlier today you can always redirect them in your 404 page), with it, or with something like content negotiation, you tie yourself more closely to one server, or one web host who lets you use something like Mod_Rewrite (most don't).

Damn! I just realized that after having my site ripped apart and put back together again, my 404 page never made it back. It's back there now. What a pain in the butt.

Because I can do programming in my 404 page, if I change any URLs around - a short while ago I moved my resume from /files/ to /resume/ - I can hide the change by making my 404 page redirect to the new location. Guess that hasn't been happening for the past few weeks. Ah well.