George Bush Wants to Kill Me

On the ‘W’ ketchup FAQ page you’ll see the ingredients of the Ketchup, which includes High Fructose Corn Syrup followed by just plain Corn Syrup. If I eat that my hand will fall off in an allergic reaction [I’m highly allergic to corn].

At least Kerry’s wife’s company (Heinz) sells an organic ketchup. Of course it’s outrageously expensive, too. I’ve got to help fund their Humvee. I wish Kerry had an environmental policy that didn’t include owning one of those, a suburban and a personal jet.

If Only I was a Teenager Again

If only I was a teenager again, then I could do this. I think my brother could have done close to this since he could eat a Denny’s Ice Cream Sunday in 90 seconds while I took over two minutes (usually due to an ‘ice cream headache’ AKA ‘Freezer Burn’). Please leave a comment stating your fastest food record. Comment moderation is turned on so I will have to approve your comment for it to show up on the site.

Go!

Validation Rocks

The The W3C Markup Validation Service makes writing good markup easier because once you think you’re done you can validate and make sure you’ve crossed your eyes and dotted your teas. I’m in the process of converting WorldClient into standards compliant code (except in LookOut which is an absolute pipedream due to the hacks, IE 5.5+ only code and large amount of duct-tape and bailing wire used to make it ‘work’).

However, the conversion process started a wee slow but has sped up as I’ve discovered the usual reasons why things aren’t validated. Man did I write some bad code before I learned about web standards. I also didn’t have a good grasp on document types before this either, so this is a good education. I had no idea that & was a requirement in URL’s for HTML 4.0. All of the supposed 4.0 markup I had done previously was full of regular "&X=Y" types of URL‘s instead of the correct way to code.

In WorldClient a username and password is required to get into the pages so the best way I’ve found to get things validated is to login with Opera
and open up the ‘info’ bar and copy the path to the cache file into Firefox (because Opera barfs for no reason when I open up the validator in another page) on the other monitor and have the validator validate an uploaded file.

Thanks you W3C!