XHTML purism

Sun, 2 Mar 2003

I've been using XHTML for quite a while, maybe a year and a half or so. All that time, I've been serving it as text/html, mostly because I didn't know any better. Knowing nothing of XML at the time, I assumed that XHTML was the future and that of course I should use it. However, [...]

Miss Goldie’s Quilt

Sun, 2 Mar 2003

My mother sent me this picture a few days ago: That's my cat, Goldie, breaking in the quilt that my mother is making me as a graduation present. (MHC graduation, that is.) Mom says that Goldie sleeps on it constantly and that she likes both sides but especially the flannel backing, which is the side showing [...]

The Holistic Information System

Sun, 2 Mar 2003

Last summer I decided to teach myself about relational databases, so I read Kevin's books on SQL and PHP and created a little catalog of my CD collection. I spent a little bit of time creating the database structure, a longer bit of time coding for it, and eons entering data. And it was spiffy, [...]