Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Monday, 7 January 2002

# 6 PM

Last month we had an endless flame war on the gcc development lists about an obscure corner of the C standard. This month, we had another endless flame war about a different obscure corner. That one was just calming down, when guess what happens? Some troll re-starts the argument we had last month!

# 4 AM

Fun browser fact: If you put the document type declaration for strict HTML at the top of your webpage (this means you solemnly promise not to use any deprecated markup) then Mozilla will ignore your style sheet unless the web server gives it the proper MIME type.

# 3:30 AM

I taught Shweta how to read Usenet. She taught me how to make curry. I think I got the better deal.

This is how I get my MP3 collection: someone mentions a song on some newsgroup I read, and I curiously download it, add it to the xmms playlist, listen to it once, and (unless I can't stand it at all) leave it there and forget about it. Usually it's random anime theme music (yeah, I'm an otaku, I admit it) but for some reason I seem to have picked up TISM's song Choose Bad Smack. (Think Monty Python does Trainspotting.) It's playing on my stereo right now. The disturbing part is, I'm tempted to go buy the album.

Half the fun of weblogging seems to be looking up appropriate hyperlinks for all the things I mention. Do I pick Pythonline or montypython.net to use as a reference for Monty Python? It's a beautiful excuse to spend hours surfing websites I normally wouldn't go anywhere near...