parse_url()

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For later reference: parse_url() – pass it a URL string, and it returns an associative array of URL components. Useful for extracting host names without having to resort to regex.

OS X 10.2.8

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Mac OS X 10.2.8 update is out, but be careful. Remember how 10.2.4 broke Apache? That was because the software updater added some aspect of Rendevous support to Apache by boorishly overwriting rather than appending httpd.conf, thereby deleting any VirtualHosts and other custom configurations. (Fortunately the updater did make a backup, from which one could copy and paste one’s old config lines, but no OS should have to subject users to that kind of misery, especially for those of us who routinely run Apache and PHP on our Macs as local development environments — or even as main servers.)

(Via /.)

UPDATE: Sho’nuff, the 10.2.8 update may kill Ethernet connections. The linked discussion thread has a command-line fix, but I think I’m going to hold off on upgrading for a bit, till Apple addresses that kext issue.

UPDATE: Update pulled.

It’s not my fault

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Yes, I’m well aware of how awful this site looks in IE/Windows, and I’m working on it, though I shouldn’t have to. If you want CSS to render properly, perhaps you should G.A.R.B. (Get A Real Browser.)

To Do, To Do

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Church, choir practice, lunch, dishwashing, drying and folding of laundry, payment of bills, and suddenly it’s 6pm. Where does the weekend go?

Not yet

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Nope, nope, the page is not all ready yet, but I’m taking a break from all this coding and uploading to head for Baltimore, to join Amy and check if the cancelled(?) Baltimore Book Festival may actually still be on in some reduced form. I also need to check in on my old landlord in Little Italy, which is just a few blocks from the floods shown here, but gets no mention in the news. Neither he nor the neighbors are answering their phones, which probably means flooding and a power outage. Back later.

Incoming

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  • Incoming.
  • Washington DC resident? Concerned about the harmful effects of tobacco smoke? Do something.
  • Verisign = Goons.
  • It is so very, very hard to reconstruct three years of web building, and I cannot bring myself to upload it until all my content is just as it was. And then some.
  • Someone else CSS’d Kottke, and I’m kicking myself for not having gotten my own “kottkefied” skin09.css up before he did.

ValerieDay

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It is 29 August 2003, and I wish to extend a blessed HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY to Valerie. Now, go get her something.

(I will be back in September when I finish establishing a decent framework for converting a bunch of dynamically generated sites at work to standards- compliant, CSS-based layouts. Zeldman’s little orange book has been an indispensable resource.)