One of the senior WRIfolk—to whom the phrase more money than sense just might apply—has obtained three and a half pounds of metallic sodium, which he plans to heave into a pond for the amusement of his co-workers.
Be sure to check the classifieds: if the Illinois EPA gives its approval for this stunt, a number of positions at WRI might become suddenly—explosively?—vacant. Exactly how many depends on the body count.
The XHTML saga continues: Mozilla 0.9.4 renders my test XHTML file correctly whether end-of-line is LF or CR+LF.
But wait, there's more: if I remove the CityDesk comment
<!-- Published by Fog Creek Software
CityDesk ... -->
from the beginning of the CR+LF version of my test file, Internet Explorer renders it correctly. It seems I have two options:
- Persuade CityDesk to do ascii uploads of articles;
- Persuade CityDesk not to insert its
Published bycomment.
Neither of these seems very likely to occur.
Poking around in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,
I read:
> Who started the fashion of writing essays titled "<pet-hate/> considered > harmful" anyway? The origins of this turn of phrase are almost certainly lost in the dim distant past of the Internet.
I don't know that 1968, when Dijkstra's paper Go To Statement Considered Harmful was published, counts as the ‘dim, distant past’.
Well, well—no baseball strike after all. I was looking forward to the peace & quiet. Maybe next year!
Jacob understands more and more of what he hears. I can say, "Jake, where's your dinosaur?" and he'll bring it to me. He also likes to slide down his slide: he'll climb the steps, slide down, then run back around and do it again.
He'll be seventeen months old on Sunday. Hard to believe.

