It's kind of controversial around here because it cost $300K of taxpayers dollars, and not everyone gets to the NS message.
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Sue - Dec 03, 2008 4:43:40 am PST #8224 of 25501
hip deep in pie
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2008 4:48:10 am PST #8225 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
it cost $300K of taxpayers dollars
I'm not surprised.
It's almost like that "Cat herding" Superbowl commercial. Which was one of the awesomest commercial ever, but who remembered what it was for (even the day after it aired)?
Theodosia - Dec 03, 2008 5:16:56 am PST #8226 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Unfortunately for the Cat Herder commercial, it was for a company that most people never encounter in their daily life... so brand awareness wasn't exactly built up.
I SO want a Pomegranatephone now. And that website is very very nice Flash indeed.
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2008 5:20:09 am PST #8227 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I SO want a Pomegranatephone now.
My biggest fear would be beard shavings ending up in the coffee.
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2008 6:15:27 am PST #8228 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
XML question - if you have a double-quote as part of a value in some XML, the double-quote would of course be escaped. But what about the ” character? (The closing double-quote character, not the regular " (ASCII 34) character?) Some Javascript code is not recognizing my XML as valid because of this character.
I'm hoping that people will adopt my "Tell the client not to use that character" solution, but I'm trying to think ahead in case I have to have our code handle this.
Tom Scola - Dec 03, 2008 6:22:20 am PST #8229 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's probably not recognizing the ” character because the data is labeled with the wrong character encoding. If I were to hazard a guess, JavaScript is expecting the XML to be encoded as utf-8, but the file is actually encoded in cp-1252.
In any event, ” can be represented by the entity ” or ”.
Ginger - Dec 03, 2008 8:18:13 am PST #8230 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dear Microsoft:
I use your products. I have stood up for you. For the love of god, please stop auto-updating me and, in the process, wiping out all my display settings. The happy shiny XP displays and the lack of my Serenity desktop get on my last nerve, and I have to reset everything back to my nice soothing monotone.
Seriously, people. I have turned off auto-update. I have gone through various permutations recommended by persons on the web to keep it off. Somehow, auto-update keeps auto turning itself back on.
Also, I am not a PC.
Yours exasperatedly,
Me
(Any suggestions, techistas?)
omnis_audis - Dec 03, 2008 10:01:37 am PST #8231 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
le nubian - Dec 03, 2008 10:39:50 am PST #8232 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger, how are you turning off auto-update. Is that an issue? Maybe you need to turn it off permanently? I cannot remember what I did, but on my home computer, it won't auto-update, it only updates when I let it.
Gudanov - Dec 04, 2008 5:34:18 am PST #8233 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
In geeky news, my open source application is getting packaged for Debian, making it packaged for at least Ubuntu and Debian now. I feel a bit guilty that I haven't worked on it in a couple of years, but the new developers that signed up have been doing such a great job I don't know what I would do.