When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 10:53:24 am PDT #8763 of 10003
hwæt

I'm having a deep sense of deja vu here.

Your organization will jump through some really elaborate hoops to avoid using t xsl:parameter won't it?


tommyrot - Sep 05, 2006 10:55:39 am PDT #8764 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, I was getting the deja vu too.

Anyway, I'm trying to hack what our ex-consultant wrote for us. Problem is, my xsl knowledge is limited....


Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 11:03:20 am PDT #8765 of 10003
hwæt

It looks like your ex-consultant was deliberately trying to write unmaintainable code. I'll have too take a deeper look at it this evening.


tommyrot - Sep 05, 2006 11:07:28 am PDT #8766 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Thanks!

In any event, I have an inelegant workaround (producing the 'color:red' thing (when needed) in the SQL stored proc instead). So at least I can get our client off our backs....

This particular web page is used by management, so we have to take their whining more seriously.


Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 2:51:08 pm PDT #8767 of 10003
hwæt

Tommyrot, insent to both your work and profile addresses.


Dana - Sep 05, 2006 5:30:20 pm PDT #8768 of 10003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

So my iPod hard drive died, and now our primary computer is refusing to boot.

I'm not really looking for advice, just sympathy.


meara - Sep 05, 2006 5:35:37 pm PDT #8769 of 10003

Your technology is conspiring against you to make you appreciate it more? Bastards.

I just got a brand-new laptop battery! It's so exciting!!! Previously it was lasting maybe 20 minutes. The new one has been going strong for over an hour, and still has 3/4 of a charge left! Whoot!


Atropa - Sep 05, 2006 6:24:05 pm PDT #8770 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I know the answer is probably "no", but does anyone know how to save a sound file from a website running Flash?


P.M. Marc - Sep 05, 2006 6:38:57 pm PDT #8771 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Jilli, there may be a Firefox plug in to do that...


Atropa - Sep 05, 2006 6:43:04 pm PDT #8772 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Hmm. I don't have Firefox installed on the laptop. Now I have to decide if I want that new single badly enough to install Firefox and hunt for the plug in, or if I'm willing to wait for the release of the single ...