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Archive: April 16, 2002

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CompuServe released, bundled with Mozilla

Via Slashdot, CompuServe not_ie_put_on_new_compuserve&e=6&ncid=738">has been released with Mozilla bundled instead of IE. Great news.

The Catholic Church and pedophilia

Rather than the Pope giving 'guidelines' on how to deal with deviant priest behavior, he should examine the underlying cause of the behavior. With a tradition that didn't exist until the eleventh century, the Church encourages deviant behavior by disallowing leaders in the Church from participating in the God-given institution of marriage.

Not to mention that forcing priests to be celibate directly contradicts the Word of God.

It is soooo hot, oh my God.

E-mail addresses in comments gone

I've removed e-mail addresses in comments, because the plague of SPAM has become epidemic. Harvesters are able to read HTML entity-encoded e-mail addresses now. Maybe I'll encode them in some different way in the future, but for now they're gone.

More StructuredText

I've created a release history for my StructuredText parser - marked up with the parser, of course. Has a full release history as well as a To Do List / Wishlist

Pwee

Via PHPEverywhere, Pwee - PHP Environment Extender. It's always useful to have another option for storing data you need. I wonder how this compares to ASP's GLOBAL.ASA.

The Osbournes want more money

Gist.com: Osbournes Want More $$

It's the highest-rated series in MTV's history, but will The Osbournes be on for a second season? There are rumblings of a potential dispute centering around - what else? - money.
An increase might well be deserved: The Osbournes, which focuses on the real-life antics of dazed rocker Ozzy and his family, drew an audience of 6 million for last Tuesday's episode. Its 19 share (the percentage of viewers watching) outpaced all competition on cable and broadcast TV in its time slot (10:30 p.m. ET). If it keeps up its current pace, the show could end up in the top 10 among all shows for the current season, according to Variety.

And because of the success of the Osbournes, I saw this coming.

Angel was f'ing awesome last night.

Ally McBeal was fun too: Matthew Perry was good, and Christina Ricci was awesome! I might even consider watching Ally again in the future, if it wasn't on opposite Angel.

Oh, and how could I forget? Jon Bon Jovi was on Ally McBeal too! He was awesome, and he can act too!

OPML

Mark Pilgrim: "Here ends my one and only foray into OPML." Ouch.

This is a completely gratuitous use of my markup parser, but I just found this database table layout in a post in Hosting Matters' forum, and I wanted to see what it would look like after my parser was done with it. I removed the unnecessary header line, but besides that I didn't touch it. (Ok, I removed blank spaces at the end - which weren't in the original, copying and pasting put them there)

Field Type Null Key Default Extra
ID int(11) PRI NULL auto_increment
FirstName varchar(255) YES NULL
MiddleName char(1) YES NULL
LastName varchar(255) YES NULL
Street1 varchar(255) YES NULL
Street2 varchar(255) YES NULL
City varchar(255) YES NULL
State char(2) YES NULL
ZipCode int(5) YES NULL
ZipCodeExt int(4) YES NULL
EmailAddress varchar(255) YES NULL
BusPhone varchar(255) YES NULL
BusFax varchar(255) YES NULL
HomePhone varchar(255) YES NULL
CallLeg char(3) YES NULL
VisitLeg char(3) YES NULL
WriteLeg char(3) YES NULL
HelpDBL char(3) YES NULL
Web char(3) YES NULL
PostDate date YES NULL

Testing Smileys

Smiley Smiley (big smile) Smiley frowningSmiley sticking out its tongue Smiley 'oh well' Smiley indifferent Smiley winking

Matt, I didn't use any of yours Smiley

Mike's hard lemonade

I gotta get me some of that...

Business pros flock to Weblogs

Via Scripting News, Business pros flock to Weblogs:

Omar Javaid describes himself as a "pretty prolific" Internet reader who used to fire off hundreds of e-mails each week with news tidbits that might interest staff and customers of his consulting firm. Then about six months ago he began a sort of online diary known as a Weblog and began posting his thoughts and findings there instead.
The experiment has been so successful that Javaid says he plans to expand it until virtually everyone at his 60-person company, Mobilocity, has a Weblog. Javaid's brief experience has convinced him that far from an exercise in self-indulgence, Weblogs actually can be used to increase worker efficiency.
The aspect of community building is one mentioned frequently by blogging enthusiasts and helps differentiate blogs, with their heavy use of cross-linking, from other personal Web pages.

Good article. They get it, but...

Yay Apache 2.0

Via Slashdot, eWeek: Apache 2.0 Beats IIS at Its Own Game.

After three years of development, Apache 2.0 (or, more accurately, Version 2.035) has finally been released. Unix users will find plenty to like in Version 2.0, but the biggest impact will be on Windows servers, where Apache can now perform as a production-level Web server.
When it comes to security, IIS doesn't come close to Apache. Apache's security track record is excellent, while IIS has taken hit after security hit. Just last week, Microsoft announced that 10 new security holes (several of which were serious buffer overruns) had been discovered in IIS.

And probably one of the two coolest changes in Apache 2.0 (the new process/thread model being the other):

Apache modules are also significantly different in Version 2.0. The API for writing modules is completely new, and modules can now run as filters, giving them greater flexibility to act on content delivered from the server.

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