*ROFL* Just crack open the bedroom window and hang it outside for a few minutes before bedtime. Thank goodness, I live in California. Cold weather is like Kryptonite to me.
— Don Park 
Ouch! Well I’m sorta snowed in, lots of birth control… alone.
Even I know that there are some things that don’t necessarily require birth control.
— Richard
Yeah, like blogging.
— Mark
Be brave (and spare us the gory details). Here’s (partly) what we produced that way: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/images/snowandkids.jpg
We stopped at the drug store just as the snow was starting so we wouldn’t wind up in the same situation as you. So we’re snowed in *with* birth control.
So what am I doing here????
— Anonymous
That really is too much information, Mark. Hope you had fun!
“Yeah, like blogging.”
Now that was the best laugh I’ve had all morning.
Ha! One more reason to be glad I’m snipped. I admit I hadn’t thought of this one.
Though with the piddling amounts of snow we’ve gotten this winter… er, will not finish this sentence for fear of tempting fate.
Boy, we’re just learning a little too much about everybody today, aren’t we?
— Mark
Being snowed in is fun. Provided you have plenty of soda and stuff, ofcourse.
— Jesper
Not exactly a secret ‘r nothin’, Mark.
http://www.sandhilltech.com/weblog/blogger.html/2002/07/09.html
But I’m sorry if I overshared.
— Dorothea Salo
Just be careful. Those wedding dresses are tough to adjust.
I love the Carolinas: A small storm, and everybody stops working!
— Camilo
There’s no such thing as oversharing here. Ain’t nobody listening ‘cept a few thousand readers a day, and Google.
— Mark
Yeah, NC is great. Of course, I work from home, so I’ll work until the power goes out. I used to live/work outside Philadelphia, and we’d go to work in 6 inches of snow. Of course they got 16 inches this time.
I remember the blizzard of 96(?) or 97(?) when we got ~24 inches. Me and my coworkers all went down to Main Street in Manayunk and went bar hopping. Getting down the hill from Roxborough was easy. Getting back up the hill drunk was more of a challenge.
— Mark
Mark, are you recording your search/browse trails automatically somehow?
— Michael Bernstein
Nope, I’m typing it all by hand. Just like my damn CITE tags. :) Fun though, isn’t it? And I learned a new HTML entity: rarr. It’s cool, and well-supported; even Lynx turns it into a text representation of an arrow. I may use it for my breadcrumbs at the top of each page.
Please, let’s not turn this into the Spanish inquisition; it’s only an HTML entity.
— Mark
And by “well-supported”, I mean “supported by every browser known to humankind, except Netscape 4″.
— Mark
How bored is bored?
I mean, if you’re super duper bored, offer constructive criticism on http://thefriedmans.net/lexfeed/ — my attempt to incorporate the necessary of NetNewsWatcher into a web-based symptom. I mean, thus far, it fails gloriously in that regard… But you inspired me to try it, and I learned more about RSS and parsing it from you than anyone else…
But as I said… that’s only if you’re really, really bored.
I can’t decide if I miss snow or not, ever since I moved to the West Coast. I miss being snowed-in, but I don’t miss the snow. Is that possible?
— Lex
Cool. Since, on a cursory investigation, it has been a part of standard HTML since at least HTML 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html), I don’t see any particular problem with using it.
— Michael Bernstein
I miss getting stoned, but I don’t miss being stoned. So I understand.
— Mark
Kieran Sobel, “Procrastination 101″:
How to play “Where’s Porno?” —
1. Pick a reputable website. Particularly good choices include college and government websites.
2. Using only links found on the initial page, and then subsequent pages, navigate your way to a pornographic website.
3. Enjoy.
4. Repeat.
(http://www.leighhenrymusic.com/kieran/index.php?start=1042000239&count=-1 )
— Aaron Schutzengel
Lex, some initial thoughts:
- Add RSS auto-discovery. I clicked “add a feed” and typed in “diveintomark.org”. Make this find my RSS feed.
- Change “do not remember my password” to “remember my password”. It can be unchecked by default if you like.
- Logged in with IE, added a feed, read through it. Then logged in with Mozilla and got this error: “Error with SELECT * FROM WHERE feed = ’startup.xml’;: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ‘WHERE feed = ’startup.xml” at line 1. Script will now halt.”
You have now reached the limits of my boredom. Work on it some more and ping me again in a few weeks.
— Mark
I got the same email from the MT guys, but they said:
And please let anyone you know running 2.6 know about this problem, but do not make a public announcement on your weblog. We don’t want people to try to exploit the problem.
Thanks,
Ben
— Kynn
Three months before the wedding and bored?
Pre-write your thank you cards!
Thank you for the __________ it’s just fabulous. We really appreciate it!
Or go make some brownies…..
Since the MT bug is now announced on movabletype.org, I feel justified in pointing to it. I’m not giving away more information than they are, nor any earlier. I don’t actually know what the vulnerability is, but I’ve upgraded.
— Mark
daymented, you assume we have our thank-you cards printed already. Actually we were just at the printers last week finalizing the wording of the invitations and response cards; the matching thank you notes are part of the same order.
I know, we could sit around arguing about the guest list. Again.
— Mark
“Where’s Porno?” attempt #1:
http://diveintomark.org/
http://diveintomark.org/links/
http://oblivio.com/
http://home.earthlink.net/~ajdlro/7thseal.html
— Mark
“Where’s Porno?” attempt #2:
http://www.w3.org/
http://www.w3.org/Mail/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Feb/thread.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Feb/0123.html
http://www.aaronsw.com/
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000838
http://nanocrew.net/blog/
http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/
http://www.salon.com/sex/
I’m sure someone can do better, but I get bonus points for routing it through the RDF-core mailing list.
— Mark
Mark, wouldn’t it be great if browsers these days had threaded session history like Mosaic used to? It would probably make it easier for you to make this kind of post.
My favorite part of being a lesbian is having no need for the birth control while snowed in. Or any other time, for that matter.
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
:)
— Gina
Also, MT 2.61 -> MT 2.62
This weblog is now running Movable Type 2.62. All 2.6 and 2.61 users must upgrade immediately:
http://www.movabletype.org/news/2003_02.shtml#000797
— Mark
You know Mark, this is a self solving problem. In future snow falls children may prevent you from needing birth control as a result of your not having it now. Of course being snowed in with children can also result in a lack of sanity as cabin fever is not a pretty site. ;-)
— Andy
heh. they should call it rdfhardcore
Argh. That was supposed to be:
<sbp> heh. they should call it rdfhardcore
(I assumed that since HTML wasn’t allowed it was encoded. And Safari isn’t remembering my name on your site.)
Thanks for the link, Mark. I tried to conduct about three or four of these Six-Degrees-type things but only one really lead to something. Nice experiment.
— Jesper
You know there is off-line things that don’t require birth control, like Monopoly :)
Thanks for the alert on Textpattern as well… you’re the only person I’ve seen mention it today, kind of odd I thought.
Oh and that lesbian comment was great.
I wish I could run TextPattern, but my server is still running PHP 4.1.
— Mark
I have sunshine! But no birth control. Oh, and no girl either :-/
Wow, Netscape 4 doesn’t even support rarr’s unicode (#8594).
— Josh
Yeah, well, I don’t do anything to support Netscape 4 around here, so one more thing won’t make any difference. I changed all my templates to use the rarr entity in my breadcrumbs. Like it? Hate it?
— Mark
I like rarr… I always thought it was rather elegant, and especially well-suited for breadcrumbs. Thumbs up from me.
— Suho
I like → (rarr).
It sounds… growly.
Hey look → MT allows HTML entities. Is it supposed to do that, or did I do something wrong?
— Mark
I tried to find an html entity that was the equivalent of a shrug (by way of reply) but failed. So this will have to do:
<shrug>
BTW, what genius decided to actually *use* the capitalization of entity names? Was there actually some point in making rArr produce this?: ⇒
Who is going to be able to remember that capitalizing the second letter of this particular name will produce a double arrow?
Somehow, I’m certain it was a decision reached by a commitee.
I liked the lesbian comment too. When I first saw this post, I was reminded of a song by a lesbian folk-rock group called Two Nice Girls back in the late 1980s:
I spent my last ten dollars on birth control and beer
My life was so much simpler when I was sober and queer
— ralph
Is anyone else having the problem that this thing doesn’t remember me?
— Jesper
My IE5.5 Windows displays → not as an arrow but as an empty square box. Bummer?
Argh! That’s what I get for not testing in IE5. “The Netscape 4 of a new generation.”
I may keep them anyway. Damn blasted IE5. Does it handle the numeric version correctly? Never mind, I’ll check. Damn blasted IE5.
— Mark
By the way, I love how the title of this page works out, particularly with the new rarrs (currently circumvented for backwards comyuckability):
You are here: Home -> Archives -> February 2003 -> February 17 -> So here we are
“You are here: So here we are” has some beauty to it. Do you see it? You’re here, so now… We’re “we.”
Okay. I need a harder job.
— Lex
Let’s have more porn and less chat.
Just kidding.
Oh, and → is the new pink.
— John
Okay, Mark, bust out the crayons and MAKE some thank you cards! Woo-hoo! Now THERE’S a good time!
— dayment