Holizz versus the Web

For some reason WordPress replaces " with \" between pre tags. I haven’t yet worked out why (or how to stop it).

Watch it in action:

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The above is literally <pre>"</pre>. See? It’s very exciting.

It is the reason my homepage doesn’t validate (it kills attributes inside pres). This sort of thing is why I disagree with generating XML without an XML parser: it’s very difficult to stop it becoming ill-formed at the drop of a hat. It doesn’t matter with XHTML served as text/html, but I don’t agree with that either.

Update: It was fixed a few weeks ago. See Ticket #1793 double quotes escaped inside pre tags.

Meme stolen from Neil.

Ten Firsts

First Best Friend

Owen.

First Screen Name

Gluk Schmuck is the first one I remember.

First Pet

My first pet was Number 6.

First Piercing

Ears.

First Crush

I don’t know.

First Record

I don’t know.

First Car

None.

First Love

None.

First stuffed animal

It may have been a little pig knitted for me.

Nine Lasts

Last Alcoholic Beverage

You’ll forgive me if I don’t remember. It was 21 months ago. Probably beer at the Blue Boar.

Last Car ride

Monday when Davina took me shopping and then dropped me off at Cult TV.

Last Movie Seen

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Last Phone Call made

The bank. Today (yesterday).

Last CD Played

I don’t play CDs. I rip them and add them to my playlist.

Last Bubble bath

Several years ago.

Last time you cried

I’m not sure.

Eight “have you evers”

Have you ever dated one of your best friends

I’ve dated a good friend. But not quite best friend.

Have you ever been arrested

No.

Have you ever skinny dipped

Nope.

Have you ever been on tv

Yep. Several times. But I wasn’t the main attraction.

Have you ever kissed someone, and then regretted it

Not really.

Have you ever had a sex dream about someone

Sure.

Have you ever had sex

I’m doing Computer Science, what do you think?

Seven things you are wearing

• Purple trousers
• Pants
• Orange Old Navy T-shirt
• Glasses
• Flesh tunnel in my nose
• Nipple bars
• Red acrylic ring

Six things you’ve done today

• DS coursework
• CASS2 coursework
• Ate mushrooms
• Wore my white belt for the first time
• Punched somebody in the nose (I only touched him because he mostly blocked it)
• Begun sai level one in kobudo

Five favourite things in no order

• Fermented soy
• Emacs
• Jujutsu
• Archery
• Japanese

Four people you can tell almost anything to

• Summer
• Niall
• Will
• Davina

Three choices

Black or White

White

Hot or Cold

Hot

Chocolate or Vanilla

Vanilla

Two things you want to do before you die

• Speak fluent Japanese
• Be 1^st dan in at least one martial art

One thing I regret

• I don’t regret much so I’m not telling.

Last night I was busy stripping out HTML compatible empty-element syntax from WordPress. Now, my site is happily conforming to HTML 4.01 Strict.

I also got rid of Kubric. It was horrible (in the sense that it’s used on almost every WordPress blog in existance). I may remove some unneccesary markup next time I fiddle with it, and maybe put in some style.

But for now barely-styled HTML is good enough for me.

After a good while of having no weblog, I return.

I sacraficed some control I would have had with a self-written weblog for ease of use. Compared to the last thing I was using, this is really sexy and… usable.

I plan to keep the same IRI structure, and I’d like to import the old database into the new one at some point, although with my MySQL installation fucked (yes, I’ve removed, and purged mysql several times) it may take some time. So, unfortunately, the older entries will give 404s at the moment.

Welcome back me. I might post something interesting soon, if you’re lucky (I’d hope I have at least a little to blog about from the past three months).