So I realized today why I’m having trouble with single and double quotes for my mom’s poems. WordPerfect, like MSWord, isn’t using real quotes. It is using “Fancy” or “Curly” quotes. Now I just need to learn how to turn that off. :-)

Once I have that working, I should be able to trust my code to create web pages correctly. I’ll be moving her over to a slightly different submit form that works better for just about everything else she’ll hit. And once I can trust the code to write web pages directly, I can generate more than just the web page, I can generate other views than simply alphabetical. On a side note, if I can learn about creation time and such from php, then I can do this now, and not have to generate a static page for each other view.

Update 17:55: And it turns out I can learn this, and so this page now exists, after a custom compare function to use this function. :-D

Just a short note, I just read the latest installment of Exercise Your Wonder by Dr. Howard Glicksman over at Access Research Network, a nice repository of some Intelligent Design papers, books, and other resources. I highly recommend Dr. Glicksman’s articles for anyone who actually wants to think about exactly what materialistic science claims has evolved. Dr. Glicksman presents a compelling case that the human body is a highly complex and inter-dependent construct, and challenges you to think “could this really have evolved?”. Most people I find do not want to really think. They want to believe what they are taught and told by “authorities” (scientists in this case). And it doesn’t help that so much of the response against intelligent design comes in the form of attacks against the authors (that keep them out of the main-stream journals), and over simplification of their arguments. Its fairly easy to get people to dismiss 7 day creation, and if you can keep people thinking that the choice is between that or evolution, then the argument is pretty much over. :-(

news

Lest you thought otherwise, the end of the two cases in Florida do not signal the end of th attacks on marriage. Findlaw reports on some of the continuing battles here. What a messed up world we live in when we have to worry about “sex change operations” and their effect on the validity of a marriage. Some states apparently refuse to recognize such an operation has having changed your gender. Good for them.

Some scientists have made some progress understanding the Venus fly trap. Interesting read, details are here.

Slow day today. Created an external raid, and re-looking at torque and moab. I dislike them for the most part, they seem like more trouble than they are worth. The idea is worthy enough, you have this big expensive cluster, make sure one person does not abuse it, and that everyone gets a fair shot at having their jobs get the resources needed. But the programs themselves are a pain to set up and try to understand. Looks like I’ll be visiting a client again on Tuesday, and among other things, setting torque and moab at least partially up. I wish I could get support for oscar here, the scripts they provide would handle at least some of this for me. I also am not too thrilled about visiting customers. They always ask questions I don’t have answers for.

Read Ederlyn’s post about a chocolaty Starbucks®, it reminded me of one of the (few) good points that one of William’s biology professors made: why do we eat? We eat to obtain energy. Does it really matter what we eat then, so long as it isn’t poisonous in some way? Not really. What’s far more important is that you exercise at a level appropriate to your intake. But attempts to explain that, especially in the caustic way that I’m most suited to, do not seem to get through or make an impression on people.