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Question: Have you ever collected pop tabs? For what purpose?

My Answer: When I was in college, a local beer distributor offered a free keg for a gallon jug full of pop tabs. Rob and I collected them, then didn't have time to drink a keg (or throw the party), so we figured they must be worth something if you could get $60 in free beer out of it. So I collected darn near 10,000 over the next few years. I never really cared about the value (and I learned a few months ago that they really have none beyond their weight as aluminum), but it did help me visualize how much Coke I drank for a number of years.

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The high school golf team - for which I am the volunteer assistant coach - had its first match last night at J.C. Martin "Country Club." In quotes because, well, if you've ever played at J.C. Martin you know it's about as far from a country club as you can get. The card? 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 - 2286 yards.

The team pulled out a 33-27 victory despite about twenty four-putts. The one defense the course has is greens slanted at about 30° angles. Get above the pin and you're looking at a 30-footer coming back.

The opposing coach, well, let's say he should read the rules a little more closely. Specifically, rule 24-2. He should also realize that local rules can't really override USGA rules. A fence is an immovable obstruction, period, and the rules of golf say nothing about the intended purpose of a fence or what "would have happened" had the ball not rolled under it. But I digress…

1-0. Undefeated. Woo! 🙂 It's too bad I don't think I'll be able to attend the next two matches. Got a dinner date with some neighbors and a function at Carey's school.

Question: Where do you buy the majority of your books?

My Answer: A local Barnes & Noble. I get 10% off (now 20%, because Carey's a teacher) and I enjoy the "immediacy" of having a book in my hand and not having to wait for the mail to deliver it (i.e. Amazon.com).

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For Matt, my favorite Touareg picture:

Not my car, obviously, just a Touareg in a field. It's larger than you see here, so feel free to look here.

Did Safari 2.0 (412.2.2 - the one you get with Security Update 2005-007) break table-copying behavior for anyone else, or just me?

I used this page as a test. I pasted into BBEdit (8.2.3). Safari had been working properly for quite some time, but just now - several times - it pasted with one piece of information per line. Not tab-delimited.

P.S. Title changed from "Safari Table-Copying Broken Again?" to what you see now.

Question: Have you ever given a seagull an Alka Seltzer?

My Answer: Nope. I can't imagine it'd be a whole lot of fun, really.

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I have a list of 10 unordered links on a web page, where each links via href="#" and has an onClick that performs a function called changeText(). The changeText() function changes the "innerHTML" value of a div on the same page, replacing the text "Click one of the names above" with a bunch of HTML styled content - images, italics, tables, etc.

In an effort to keep the main page clean, I've been attempting different methods of using PHP and JavaScript (primarily via PHP's include()) to split off each of the 10 different "contents" into separate files.

This works great… unless the included file has a carriage return in it.

So now I'm taking a breather and looking into other ways of doing this. Clearly, I'd rather not re-load the page and pass a parameter via GET or POST, which is why I'm using JavaScript to begin with.

Any suggestions?

With MovableType 3.2b4 (actually in an earlier nightly beta), SpamLookup is bundled in and makes use of the "feedback scoring" system to "junk" spamments. Thus far, the results are astounding: I've had one false negative and one false positive on top of about 11,000 spamments.

Those are impressive results, and the darn thing (so far as I can tell) isn't even using a Bayesian filter. It's just determining which comments are spamments and which are not by looking at the message content (for URLs) and cross-checking that with DNS entries and lists along with some small word lists. Judi is similarly impressed.

Is this all it took? I'm still using MT-Blacklist over at The Sand Trap, but only because I'm waiting for 3.2 to be finalized before I install it there.

Question: How do you primarily use the Finder: Column, List, or Icon view?

My Answer: I typically have one window open in column mode (six columns wide and a skinny sidebar). When I need to work with images or "drag and drop" type things, I'll open a second folder in icon view to provide easier (larger) drag targets.

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Question: Do you plan to retire?

My Answer: Probably not fully, not ever. Unless of course I can play golf every day, all day. 🙂

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Question: While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it. While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. The question is: how many times do you try this before your foot stops changing directions?

My Answer: It took me six times at full speed for my foot to not change directions (and go counter-clockwise), and I really had to concentrate. This is much, much tougher than the old "pat your head, rub your tummy" routine.

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From an email my mom forwarded to me:

Question: When was the last time you volunteered? Doing what?

My Answer: I'm currently the volunteer assistant golf coach for my old high school, North East High School. Go Pickers! 🙂

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Question: What size bed do you have?

My Answer: A double (extra long). Carey and I like it, though prior to meeting me she was used to a King for two people. But we fit comfortably. Flint, sadly, is no longer allowed on the bed at night, though he's snuck on the past two evenings.

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So much for my uptime: Security Update 2005-007 (aka the "Bond, James Bond" of Security Updates).

For the record, it was:

% uptime
17:46  up 33 days, 19:29, 3 users, load averages: 0.15 0.57 0.67

BTW, I hate, hate, hate waiting for Saft updates. Dum dee doo… twiddle my thumbs… no idea what 20 tabs or so I have saved…

Yes, the site is now blue instead of green. I can pretty quickly change the colors now because there is so little imagery, and I changed the font in the title while I was at it. I also added little "fades" to the comments. If you see anything green (after reloading your stylesheet) that should be blue, please let me know.

The blue is somewhat of a VW blue, in case anyone is wondering. I took it from one of the pictures of my car.

BTW, VW blue is #4582cd. Well, that's the color they use on their site, anyway.