Monthly Archives: July 2005

What’s the difference…

So, what’s the difference between this:

<!--#if expr="${GETDOC3}"-->
<!--#include virtual="doc3.html"-->
<!--#endif-->

and this?

<!--#if expr="${GETDOC3}" -->
<!--#include virtual="doc3.html" -->
<!--#endif -->

Answer: the stupid space before the --> marker. Without that little space, your server side includes won’t play nice with Apache 1.3.

Evening Commute

ElfCommute.jpg

Even for Night Elves, finding a seat on public transport can be a pain…
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The Underestimation Station

Boy, did I mess up that time estimate… I figured I’d be able to get the prep-work done for the cherry wine in about an hour, hour and a half tops. With two of us working for the last half of it, it took almost three hours to de-pit two and a half gallons of tart cherries.
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Jubilee

There’s plans afoot for a new batch of wine. Scott H got a couple gallons of tart cherries from a friend of his and handed them over to our tender mercies for winification. I’m sure we’ve got a recipe or two for cherry wine somewhere. This is Michigan after all. If I can’t find one I like, I may just adapt the one we used for the cranberry wine. It turned out pretty tasty…

Too boring for prime time

I’ve been doing some massive geek-outery at work again. It’s some really cool stuff involving doing the navigation for a huge website using server side includes and variables so that I only have to write something once and it’ll look different depending on where you are in the site.
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