Nice and easy Apache mod_rewrite tutorial, for regex dummies like me.
Mac/IE5 CSS problems
I’ve gone through each blog layout with a fine-toothed comb on IE5/Mac to figure out where the CSS problems are. Expect Mac-friendly changes next week. A codesharing lab is also in the works, and I think I also need to redesign that portfolio. It’s starting to feel more than a bit campy.
In other news, I thank fellow PEXer MENJ for the link from this Freewebspace.net forum thread, though I’m slightly chagrined to hear Guitarnerd dismiss my layout scheme as “annoying.” For your info, I use a combination of PHP and CSS to achieve the layout randomization effect; XML has little to do with it, other than that I use an XML declaration at the beginning of each valid XHTML document as a matter of good form.
Sebsational and Krissy
Nice to see Seb blogging again, with profound — and occasionally profane — reflections from the guy who first mused that dirt entering oysters turns into pearls, but when it enters people, it turns into boogers.
Now is also your chance to see what Krissy looks like. Aaaww! :)
Mount Vernon Bike Trail
Today I did my usual weekend skate down 16th Street, past the White House, around the Washington Monument, and down the Reflecting Pool to Lincoln Memorial; but from there I deviated a bit and tried crossing the Arlington Memorial Bridge. That’s where I found something which I can’t believe I didn’t know about before: the Mount Vernon Trail.
I skated as far as the other end of National Airport before I decided to turn back. Fortunately there was a pedestrian underpass to the Airport terminal, from where I could take the Metro back to DC.
Someday I’ll have to try skating all the way. That sounds fun.
Too much espresso
Starbucks put too much espresso in my Grande Iced Skim Mocha this morning, so that it tasted more like an Americano into which a few drops of milk had been accidentally spilled. As a result, I am feeling far more alive and vibrant than I should on a warm Sunday afternoon. Palpitate.
Conrado De Quiros on Cults
De Quiros on Filipino cults. The PBMA is in good company: they are but a dark mirror reflecting the often nasty foibles of religious sectarianism in our culture.
Speaking of which, I’m suddenly back in the pertinent search results. Maybe the Googlebot was just making tampo.
Spam to encoded email
Disturbing. I’m getting spam on an email address that I had thought was safely javascript protected. This means that unscrupulous mass email marketers have either broken through the encoding, or they’re harvesting addresses manually to add to their insiduous spam lists.
How much spam do you get in a day?
Leaderboard
The Leaderboard, a link-ranking of Christian blogs. I’m happy to be in the Top 10 — at the moment — but I’m not quite certain that the results are all perfectly accurate.
Sword of the Samurai PC game
I never get tired of playing Sword of the Samurai. Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I fought my way to daimyo of the clan Murakami. And when a rival hatamoto was chosen because he had more troops and land, I assassinated him. There.
PBMA Ecleo search referrals
Curious. Yesterday, I got amost 200 hits for PBMA and Ruben Ecleo searches, but today there are none; my page is suddenly no longer cached, so even a search for “PBMA Ecleo and Brownpau” turns up only Ganns’ page. I wonder if this blog entry had anything to do with my getting pulled from the Google db for that search? Or did they just notice that a thematically unrelated blog was getting inordinately huge amounts of traffic?
(Ganns, by the way, is a wonderfully vibrant Christian blogger, a fellow PEX moderator, and a friend from way back in college. Go check him out if you have not already done so.)