I just realized how late it is, so this will be quick.
Spent more time hacking on the Perl for work, then spent last night and today doing more Perl, but for me this time. And getting more and more frustrated because I hadn't paid close enough attention to a file that was being written by the perl script, which meant that the function it was supposed to be doing that depended on both that file and a certain line in the file it was parsing didn't actually happen. Took me a couple hours to find that, but I cleaned up some other things in the code in the process.
Didn't turn the teevee on all day today. Not really sure why.
Talked to the rents today. Still haven't bought them anything for Christmas, and mom still hasn't given me any sort of idea at all what to get her. She's the woman who buys everything she wants on impulse, and hates everything else on sight. Dad, oddly, suggested that I get him another tie bar -- I'd bought him one years ago and it's almost the only one he wears -- which was my punt idea for him, if only because it's the only one he ever seems to wear and it's time he got a new one. So I'll pick him up a tie bar this week and maybe throw in another Beethoven CD.
Speaking of CDs, I told mom that I swore I'd never buy her another CD the moment I saw that she owned a Celine Dion CD. Ew.
I just remembered I have to move the car. Feck. Nighty.
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(18 dec)
You gotta hand it to the BBC.
USAGE: Letter rejecting asylum seeker's case, from a Home Office official, December 2000: "With regard to your claim to be a national of Afghanistan, the Secretary of State thinks that this is a pile of pants."
Allow me just to say, pants!
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(17:58 EST, Monday, 18 December 2000.)
There's really not much I can add to that one.
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(16:53 EST, Monday, 18 December 2000.)
This page is entirely readable in Netscape, but it might not be if you're color blind. Netscape won't display the CSS box background colors as boxes, instead just painting background color on the text as if it were highlighted.
To make matters worse, or better, if the color is white it equates that with transparent. Believe me, the results are better that way than they'd be with the white painted on (I tried it).
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( 0:59 EST, Monday, 18 December 2000.)
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