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I'd have to have a scruplectomy first.Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Would a wildcard on member's name be easier?Originally posted by NickFitz View PostNah, he's OK - I'll just have to fix up my preparser. It's already having to clear up enough silliness that another dodgy character to watch out for won't be a problem
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Showing off your new avatar?Originally posted by Diver View Post
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Well done!Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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You should have said. If you want open source handwavery, you need a copy of the penn+teller libraries.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThanks, but it wouldn't help much on a Linux server
I'll download the source of Richard Stallman's GNU-handwavery and recompile the kernel...
(Either that or contact the genie in the LAMP)Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Originally posted by Diver View PostNah! you can grow flowers and sh!t in windows boxes




Windows box!


You should be genuinely ashamed of yourself for that one!
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One day, the continuous stationer printer by my desk screwed up and the paper came off the sprockets in the middle of my code listing. I muttered and cursed under my breath.Originally posted by Diver View PostNah! you can grow flowers and sh!t in windows boxes
A very old colleague - with no sense of humour at all - muttered back "It's no good on toast either".
It was about 2 weeks later I worked that out.Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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"Zis sausage looks like an 'orse's..."Originally posted by zeitghost View PostMrs Miggins' Pie Shoppe...Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Should we be throwing polystyrene boxes in celebration?Originally posted by zeitghost View PostShould I mention here that today is the War Criminal's Avatar's birthday... he's 78...
Or singing about LSD?
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boulders
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Yes, but the problem is that roughly 99% to 99.5% of the XHTML one encounters in the wild is not well-formed, so you can't actually parse it at all.Originally posted by Diver View PostThe single huge advantage XHTML has over HTML is that XHTML can be parsed by anything (or any language) with an XML parser.Comment
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