Sadly enough, yours truly now has an online journal. But in my defense, I get to write Perl and learn MySQL and XHTML and CSS in making it, so not all is lost. Also, the CGI module in Perl requires you to specify the DTD yourself if you want XHTML 1.0 Strict, probably because it outputs XHTML for forms that is valid Transitional but not Strict. Otherwise, however, it works fine. I wonder if that is something they are working on.

About a week ago, I was walking home when I noticed a graffito written in large white letters which read "STOP BUSH." I neither hate nor love Bush, but overall I found it somewhat amusing, particularly since I live in a rather conservative town (River Forest, IL if you were wondering; it's next to Oak Park, an incredibly liberal town). Anywho, several days later, somebody used black paint to write "VOTE" over the word "STOP." I wondered whether the person who did this was an indignant Bush suppo

The other day I went to the new Ultra Foods grocery store in my neighborhood. I notice that the checkout computer is running Windows XP. Nerd that I am point out that it should be running an embedded OS, preferably *nix. (Windows stability aside, there's no reason to run a PC OS on a checkout computer--running Mandrake would be stupid too.) The clerk then told me that the computer had crashed four times that day.