Dumb and dumbest
The 10 dumbest quotes from 2003:
2. Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But [...]
Traffic Graph
I’ve added an Alexa (”We’re an amazon.com company!”) graph to the main page to verify an assumption I’ve long held: that this page occassionally get readership reaching the double digits.
Alas, all it’s currently telling me is that I’m not in the top 100,000….I can only presume that means trafficed websites so that’s really not inflicting [...]
Cameron’s Auburn Ale
Sometimes you get lucky: you walk into the beer store, grab a case of something you’ve never had before, not expecting much, and get pleasantly surprised.
Cameron’s Auburn Ale is just such a beer. Brewed by Cameron’s Brewing Co. of Oakville, the Auburn Ale tastes fantastic. I was expecting something heavier and darker, along the lines [...]
Just Canadian?
As I was walking to my car today an older gentleman approached me and asked if I was leaving the parking spot I was in; he then indicated he wanted it. We got to chatting briefly, mainly about my Jeep - how much, what year, etc. - and then, as we were parting, he said: [...]
PHP, Smarty revisited
Well, it’s now working but I’m not entirely sure why. I moved Smarty from the place I had it in to: /usr/local/php/lib/php (my working PHP directory), changed the include_path in php.ini to include /usr/local/php/lib/php/Smarty/libs and bang: working.
Huh, how about that? Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions.
Weapons of Math Destruction
At New York’s Kennedy airport today, an individual later
discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying
to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft
said he believes the man is a member of the notorious
al-gebra movement. [...]
Just a test
Testing something.
comp.religious-wars
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Apple: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
Linux: Are you guys coming or what?
(Via /.)
PHP, Smarty and empty if()’s
I’ve just installed Smarty and it’s all working well save for one issue: all the if () statements in my compiled templates are empty, like so:
<?php if (): echo $this->_tpl_vars['pageTitle'];
else: echo $this->_config[0]['vars']['pageTitle'];
endif; ?>
The template code looks like:
{if $pageTitle}{$pageTitle}{else}{#pageTitle#}{/if}
and I can’t figure out why. Anyone have any suggestions?
Update - vital stats:
PHP: 4.3.4 (Mark [...]
A bunch of stuff
Miscellaneous stuff:
1. If you send me email messages formatted as HTML that contain embedded images i need to download from another server to view, your email message will automatically be treated as spam and ground into pulp. I will never even see it.
2. 10.3 introduced a cool new menu item called “Special Characters…” (up there [...]