Laurabelle’s Blog

First I started knitting. Then it was the sensible shoes, the occasional severe bun, and the horn-rimmed glasses.
Now I’ve started reading murder mysteries!
My mother says it’s a slippery slope. I asked what was at the bottom, and she said there isn’t one, it just keeps going.

Nothing has happened for the past few weeks, so I haven't posted. I've been at least mildly sick for the past week, which isn't really blogworthy material and prevents me from doing anything else blogworthy. I finished off a few gifts, which was cool, but that's about it. Today, however, I joined Flexcar. I am very [...]

Yesterday evening I got fed up with a Firefox bug and decided to look for it on Bugzilla to see whether it had been reported. It was a very strange bug, involving the mis-display of transparent PNGs, and it only popped up in Windows, not under Linux. It turns out that the bug has already [...]

For the first time, I am really having to restrain myself from posting a little story about work. It's hilarious, and I think 99% of the world would think it very funny too, but that last 1% would throw a screaming fit. And then the earth would explode, and it would be my fault, and [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was trying and not succeeding in blocking external referrers from my CGI directory. I got my sysadmin to enable .htaccess and Mod_Rewrite for that document root, after which I declared success, but actually I never actually tested my rules. (Oops.) I was trying not to use Mod_Rewrite (since it's fairly [...]

This weekend I noticed that Googlebot had started indexing the URLs of my newly renamed comment script, even though it wasn't actually crawling the pages. Since comment and trackback spammers don't need the content of the page, just the URL, this was not enough for me. I wrote to Google to find out what could [...]