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I'm a sucker for this style of design. I don't know what it's called.

The designer, Aaron Wood, has prints for sale on his Etsy shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Justonescarf?ref=seller_info

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114468593663912084118/posts

http://tipthepizzaguy.com/

So much information on pizza delivery. Stories, trivia, advice...

Did you know:
"Pizza delivery is considered a hazardous job by the US government. They are third most likely to be murdered on the job, right after police officer and taxi driver."
The stat is not cited, but I believe it.

Despite all the modern conveniences (and increasingly often because of them) of life and work there are many times when we have to waste time because of an inefficient system. One example is scheduling a meeting with multiple people. With two people it's pretty easy to figure out the intersect of schedules to see when both parties are free. With three people there may be a little back-and-forth, but it usually works out. Once you get to five people, it can be difficult or impossible. Doodle takes care of that. It's good.

Doodle is one of those sites that I kick myself for not having thought of. The back-end must be pretty straightforward. I can imagine re-creating the basic functionality in PHP or ColdFusion in an afternoon. But they thought of it and implemented it first. Good for them.

I don't normally broadcast this kind of thing but it was one of those situations where I had been gesturing rudely at the computer screen for hours on end before finally having the revelation: when validating a web form with JavaScript, it will fail if you have hyphens in the form names.

I've been doing this kind of thing for over ten years and I don't recall this ever coming up before.

Normally, when you validate a form, if the code detects a problem (e.g. an empty field that is required, or an email address that's not a real address) it aborts the submission of the form, thus saving time both for the user and the server. But the form I was working with defied this basic rule - it always successfully detected the problem, but then went ahead and allowed the form to be submitted anyway. Removing hyphens from the field names resolved the issue.

Special characters are typically things such as apostrophes or dollar signs, characters that have meaning in cod as well as normal language. But I had thought hyphens were safe.

The surprise to me is that, while googling the keywords almost always provides the needed answer, this one came up with nothing. It felt like I was back in 1996 or something.

I hope future generations will benefit from my wasted time.

In 1994, my first job out of college was creating educational videos for the Division of Biological Sciences at Cornell University. It was toward the end of the year when I was talking to my boss about this thing called The Web because it seemed that a number of other academic departments had web sites (that is why the Web was developed in the first place, after all). I suggested that we should have one, too.

My first job in New York City was as 'Content Editor' at PC Magazine in 1997. That meant I hand-coded all their articles, sometimes up to 200/day. The idea of a dynamic, database-driven site was still new and there were no good solutions at the time. The best was to use Microsoft Word's mail-merge function, placing all the content in an Excel file and opening the HTML template in Word, then merging them together to generate the static pages.

I started working with the staff at Friends Journal in June 2008.
The site is based on Drupal and is a companion site to the printed version, which is published monthly.

It's a good feeling to work on a project that is devoted to communicating ideas and messages of peace, trust, understanding, and all the other values that sometimes seem so rare.

You can buy a subscription for $39 (makes a great gift!)

This guy has a lot of projects worth looking at.

Some are silly Google API hacks:
http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlechatbot

While some have a bit more meaning:
http://douweosinga.com/projects/sealevel

edit:
Johnny B told me about
www.top-10-web-hosting.com
which lists what seem to be some of the best hosts out there.

Lunarpages offers 400GB per month of bandwidth for $8/month.
I just signed on with them to host the Obion games since they've gotten so popular (100,000 players within three weeks)

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This is kind of neat. This site got hacked by someone named 'Badboy'. If this were a commercial site, I might be more concerned, but as it is it turned into an interesting exercise.

The site wasn't really comprimised, just the front page was altered. I suppose a good hacker could have done much worse, so it looks like Badboy is more of a 'white hat' than a 'black hat' - which is to say I imagine that he's just pointing out a lack of security in order to encourage me to hire him to tighten it up.