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Question: What is your standard tip for what you deem to be average service?

My Answer: 15% works, though when leaving cash I usually round to the nearest (or highest) dollar. Sometimes $3.77 becomes $5 if it's easy to leave a five (or $8.33 to $10, etc.).

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Question: What is your best score at this game?

My Answer: 27.12 seconds. Then I got careless and touched a wall.

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I'm a Web developer. I use BBEdit. As such, ".html" files (and .php, and .inc, and .htm, and .cgi, and so forth) are set, by default, to open in BBEdit.

I'm getting tired of applications assuming I've set HTML documents to open in a browser. Today, I clicked "Buy Now" in the FileMaker Pro v8 demo (I was hoping it'd let me enter a code), and bam, a .htm file opens in BBEdit.

Yeah, that does me a lot of good. Thanks.

Heaven forbid a developer write an extra line or three of code to open the file in a browser.

This song happened to come on today:

Erik is listening to "Winter Wonderland" by Eurythmics from the album "A Very Special Christmas" (1987). Erik has rated this song 3.0 stars and last played this song Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:23:50 am.

At about 2:05, I heard (a few times) what sounded almost exactly like the startup chime from a Power Mac 6100. Give it a listen and see if you agree.

On Friday, at 1:08pm, I'm playing a former (and likely future) U.S. Open course: Bethpage Black. I've played two rounds in Tiger Woods 2004 (it's not in 2005 and I didn't spend the money to get 2006) and scored well. It's unlikely I'll repeat such a feat "IRL". 🙂

After yesterday's issue with mt-tb.cgi, I moved The Sand Trap to its own server. And I've renamed the TrackBack script. For now, I'd rather just leave MT thinking it's mt-tb.cgi, let TrackSpammers get 404s, and fix the entry's "Successful Pings" URLs via phpMyAdmin.

Incidentally, a little birdie tells me that there will be a public beta of the next version of MovableType within the next few weeks.

Interland (now web.com or something) literally changed the permissions on The Sand Trap's cgi-bin directory to 000 because mt-tb.cgi was being hit hundreds of times per minute. I have a script that checks every five minutes (now every one minute) and, if more than 30 CGI scripts are running, kills mt-comment.cgi, mt-search.cgi, and mt-tb.cgi. Earlier today, when it was running every five minutes, 200+ mt-tb.cgi were running between each "kill" cycle. Ridiculous!

I'm not sure what the cause is or how to fix it. I'm running only the Akismet filter, currently, which has done a halfway decent job. I've turned off all other spam filtering in the hopes that mt-tb.cgi and other scripts would "die" sooner. Yet the scripts continue to live, sucking up a little bit of resources multiplied by two hundred.

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Saft 8.3.0 adds "Tab Thumbnails" but whenever I turn them on (shift-command-option-T) I just get a solid metal window that covers the whole screen. Nothing like thumbnails… What up wit dat?

My country club posts their tee times as three .txt files that are included between <pre> tags. The process has been: 1) edit saturday.txt (or sunday, or holiday), 2) upload via FTP.

This year they'd like to do the tee times in Excel. Clearly they can "save as" a .txt file, but I was wondering if there was a way to streamline the process: perhaps automating both saving the .xls file (which could have three sheets for Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday tee times) and the three .txt files. If the files could somehow automatically be uploaded via FTP, too, that'd be great.

Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be done?

I have a 96-minute MP3 from the 2004 O'Reilly Mac OS X conference in which Brent Simmons says "NetNewsWire Sucks, PulpFiction is the Bomb!" It occurs at 42:35, for those who have the MP3, and I'll spare you the full-length disclaimer and simply state the obvious: Brent is not speaking for himself, the quote is out of context, etc.

Unfortunately, at this point, it appears the bomb was a dud. Or rather, rendered a dud by the folks who purchased Freshly Squeezed Software a year ago.

Don Yacktman, whom I've written about a few times here on my blog (see here and here), bought FSS with his partner about a year ago. Shortly after the purchase, he released an update to PulpFiction - version 1.2.2 - that was mostly work Brad and I had put together. In fact, what little code he added introduced a bug. 😛

Since then, Don has done nothing with the company or the software. He went through a lot of "stuff," including health issues, but at this point, one year later, there's simply no excuse for not finding five minutes to post an update on his blog, on the FSS site, or to reply to any of the hundreds of emails I've sent to him.

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I filled in some of the holes in our lawn today with dirt and seed - the trenches left over from the truck that delivered wood for the pool room several months ago. Now I'm waiting for the rain to come to soak the dirt and ensure that the seeds grow. I still need another bag or two to fill in some of the areas that still grow grass but which are depressed, but that's not a pressing concern.

We signed up for ChemLawn. The lawns in our neighborhood all suffer from the horribly hard dirt beneath them, and we could easily spend what we spent trying lots of different things to try to get the lawn to grow. We consider this a one-year trial…

In other news, the lawnmower we bought a year ago has decided to quit helping me. The forward drive no longer works. I push the handle, nothing happens. I'm not sure why it's decided not to work, but go forward it does not. Perhaps later this weekend I'll have the chance to investigate more thoroughly. But for now, Carey's going to look for the receipt so that we can simply have it fixed under warranty. Does not bode well, though, for many years of mowing.

A picture at Valerio's on 32nd and Pittsburgh Avenue here in Erie showed small baby girl eating a submarine sandwich. The handwritten caption read: Your never to young to enjoy a Valerio's sub!

It's been there for at least a year and nobody's managed to change it, despite the fact that you could easily fit an apostrophe, an "e," and an "o" in between the other letters and spaces.

My (step-)kid went to the doctor yesterday. The diagnosis? She's quite literally anal retentive. Despite the stool softeners we've been giving her the past month or so, she has a lot of, uhhh, "stuff" in there that she doesn't let out as often as she should.

So, Carey and I were forced to give her two enemas. One yesterday, one today. Doctor's orders.

While holding her down - which was tough, not only because I didn't want to be holding her down, but because she didn't want me holding her down - Carey squirted the saline in there. Then we waited. She cried, and then suddenly, a turd rocket larger than a Twinkie shot out a foot in the air and a foot towards Carey, landing on the towel. Munchkin was still crying, but Carey and I had trouble not laughing at the absurdity. I had to leave the room and Carey just about fell over laughing. This isn't something I pictured myself doing a year or two ago, that's for sure.

In the end (yesterday and today), I think the enemas may have done her some good. Without getting into too much detail, let's just say she's probably lost nearly 10% of her weight…

Click this link and iTunes should show you a free episode of The Apprentice. Add it to your cart and the price mysteriously becomes $1.99.

What's up with that? Is it free or not?

I played Erie Golf Club, errr, excuse me - "the recently renovated Erie Golf Club" - yesterday. Despite the Sunday paper's glowing description of the new clubhouse and the revised, improved, "new" holes, the course is still a dog track.

I'm firmly of the opinion that Downing is a pretty darn nice course, especially for the price. It has variety, it has length, and best of all, it doesn't have rocks and broken glass littering the fairways like you'll find at Erie.

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