well, wrote a little calorie counting tool over the past coupla days (and resulting as a bonus in the little calorie box for the site). took longer than i thought (just couldn’t muster the consistent effort to polish it off in one go), but i did learn one important thing – do not use upper case letters in postgresql table names. it will save sooo much trouble later on. goodbye camelbacked prefix notation, hello underscores.
Category: Legacy
the uptimes project is pretty neat. stats here. looks like the longest living box is a netbsd box that’s been up for almost 5 years.
i got to admit, msnbc’s year in pictures has some compelling images.
the latest mozilla build fixes a whole buncha problems. yay. not any that’ll help me in my development work though (boo, hiss).
posted on cnn 3 minutes ago: Contact lost with Mir space station (see what you miss when you go to sleep at normal times?).
so, it turns out that even though isindex is depracated in favor of using inputs, there’s really no elegant way to do what isindex does with inputs – that is append a value (not a name-value pair) to the query string. (neither moz or ie will submit a value without a name/id) so, the way i had to do it is by way of silly javascript hack (calling a document.location change onsubmit of the form).
My Sidebar Developer’s Guide – this does not have any information on how, if it is possible, to make a particular sidebar tab pop up/out. oh, never mind just learned that it’s bug 14224.
wow, i don’t think i’ve ever used <ISINDEX> before.
the usda has food composition data page which includes a search as well as the ability to download the usda nutrient database.
after a buncha fooling around, i got everything to compile and run w/ mod_ssl, but it’s still not running. oh well. upgraded to the latest versions of apache and php while i was at it at least. i guess i’ll leave it be for now.