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Apache woes
Double aaaauuuugggghhhhhhh! Upon further reading and experimentation, I’ve determined that while it’s annoying, this isn’t the same bug; it’s something to do with mod_mime_magic and extensionless files. The application/xhtml+xml rule actually does work under Apache 2.0 for files named with a .html extension.
Today’s lesson: never upgrade.
I’ve been fighting with mod_rewrite to see if I can convince it to behave the same way as mod_dir, and it’s been almost completely unsuccessful. Things work for a single directory but not in general, and I have no clue why. And to top it all off, there’s a fix that’s been available for over two months, but has never applied to the CVS tree, or even mentioned on apache-httpd-dev. I may yet wind up building my own version.
Oh yeah, the thing that does work, per-directory:RewriteBase /my/directory/
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [N]
It’s a small blogosphere
While researching a new question I added to What’s That Song tonight, I came across a long related comment thread on dollarshort.org. The domain name kind of rang a bell when I found it, but I was so happy to find more answers on the page that I didn’t think much more about it. While I was reading through the comments I came across the name Mena; it’s not a common name, but I wasn’t really surprised to find a post from one of the Movable Type developers on a weblog. (Movable Type is the CMS that powers this weblog.) But everything clicked when I actually went to the dollarshort homepage and saw that it’s Mena Trott’s site.
Also came across David Janes via The Shifted Librarian. As far as I can tell he’s no relation (the only David Janes listed is my uncle); there’s another strain of Janeses in eastern Canada that we’ve never been able to link to, and I’m presuming that he’s one of them from the links to St. John’s sites on his home page.
I’d post some of the lyrics to It’s a Small World at this point, but that would probably be illegal. Which kind of brings this full circle: Mena’s post today references an earlier one about The Mouse.
BMath (CS) ’95, UW
Bill Amend, FoxTrot
And more humourous math. (via Dive Into Mark)
Frame 1 TELEVISION ANNOUNCER (VO) Next, Mel Gibson stars as a Pennsylvania farmer who discovers a mysterious crop circle in his cornfield. Frame 2 TELEVISION ANNOUNCER (VO, cont'd) Will his knowledge of basic trigonometry be enough to determine the y-coordinates of points on the circumference? Frame 3 TELEVISION ANNOUNCER (VO, cont'd) Find out, as we present the television debut of M. Night Shyamalan's Sines. Frame 4 JASON This new Math Channel rules. JASON’S FRIEND Did you catch Charlie's Angles last night?
Miscellany
Reuters: Clean-cut men have fewer strokes. I’m doomed, in more ways than one.
Del Close,
the third titan of improvisation
, left his skull to the Goodman Theatre. It’s to be used in performances of Hamlet.Adrants points out didntialreadypayforthismovie.com, a sign of a growing backlash against movie-theatre advertisers.
I just plan to arrive 20-25 minutes after the start time and I am still there in time to see the beginning of the movie.
No Movie Ads, a website for
the lawsuit alleging theft of time by movie theaters
. (via The Shifted Librarian)The word gun was removed from spelling tests in a school near near Smiths Falls, ON, after a parent complained, explaining that
Guns are violent. End of story.
I yam what I yam
It’s been a while since my last truly geeky post, but I think this makes up for it: I am Slackware Linux.
Which OS are you? (via Eric Meyer)
You are Slackware Linux. You are the brightest among your peers, but are often mistaken as insane. Your elegant solutions to problems often take a little longer, but require much less effort to complete.
My writer friend
Spent several hours with my friend Kym tonight (on a non-date if ever there was one), seeing My Big Fat Greek Wedding (a date movie if ever there was one) and discussing my recent notes on her novel. I’ve got another chapter from her in my inbox right now that I’ll probably read before I head off to bed.
Why is this noteworthy? Because everything about the evening was fun. Because the book is good, and getting better all the time. Because, as I’ve written before, she’s just generally cool to be around. And, before any of you smart alecks start taking this the wrong way, because we’re friends. (Not just friends, though. That phrase bothers me–it implies there’s something unworthy about platonic friendship.)
Dinner and a movie
When a movie is really working, we are always alone, because we are within the reverie it creates…. [One] of the reasons we go to the movies is to leave ourselves behind for two hours and identify with the characters–so if it’s a good movie [we] won’t be alone for long.
A good day
In no particular order, several things that have made the last few days good:
- Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief is an excellent book, and I think I’m enjoying it even more than the movie.
- Jessie (not that one, but there’s a funny story) is as nice in person as she is in e-mail.
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo are even better live than they are on CD.
- Even Walkingbirds’ castoffs are excellent.
- Thinking Putty is way more fun than it has any right to be.
- Kurt Swinghammer’s Vostok 6 and Pink Martini’s Sympathique and Nick Buzz’s Circo are totally different, and totally engrossing.
- Real Roasted Soys are mighty tasty. So is SoyNut Butter.
- Not only a new to-do list but also a new true-blue Story of The Third Floor.
(Links everywhere. It’s been a while since I fed obidos-bot. Nice obidos-bot.)
A bad day
Kym, Jessie, Ed (not the one below) and Anne are all feeling poorly today. (No, you haven’t heard of most of them before, at least not here.) I’m just starting to get back on my feet after hearing news of the Columbia on Saturday, which I heard about this way:
(13:42:30) Ed: did you see the news confreence?
(14:01:09) Peter: Apparently not. What’s up?
(14:01:38) Ed: You haven’t heard about the space shuttle? Columbia disintegrated coming into the atmosphere.
The past several days haven’t been all bad; more to come on that.