While you can use booleans all day long inside a template in XSLT 1.0, you can *NOT* pass them as values across template application or call boundaries. They invisibly become strings, leading to interesting things such as:

flag?
not(flag)?

flag is true...

flag is false...

When check_something returns true, as above, then you get the ( Read more... )

Tue night.

Racked up 30 hrs for the week already at work.

Something about this seems... not quite right. Can't put my finger on it...

Adobe Acrobat Reader seems to have a hard limit on the size of a PDF it will display, at 200"x200". Anything larger than that that I throw at it, version 8 or 9, Windows or MacOS X, gets rendered blank, and that's the size the document properties shows. No errors given to either the user, or at the console, just... silent invisible failure ( Read more... )

rm -rf * in aDirectory != rm -rf aDirectory/*

Python syntax sneaking into csh is a BAD THING.

Thank god for Time Machine...

Zombieland.

Drive in.

Back of Jeep, hatch popped.

Lots of pillows and (not quite enough) blankets.

Nice.

Thanks hon! :D

Note to self: the coffee cup does not make calls, the phone does not deliver coffee, even when you lift them to the wrong orifices.

I put a lot of work into my presentations, and I'm a firm believer in Tufte's philosophy that a PowerPoint (or Keynote) presentation slide deck should never do double duty as presentation slides and transcript of the presentation. It just doesn't work. Slides that are sufficiently detailed enough to be a transcript are boring to sit through, and ( Read more... )

MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is a cleanup/tweaking of 10.5 to streamline it, get it multi-core optimized, bring new under-the-hood technologies, etc to the Mac platform. User-directed changes will be small, but one has me nearly bouncing out of my seat ( Read more... )

My family has FINALLY decided that golly, gee, maybe their bailing wire and spit mail and web system for the family business isn't worth the hassle. (Lesson learned: quality costs money. You don't get quality by piggybacking off of someone else's server, and relying on a friend of the family admin to let you use it ( Read more... )

It's 85F, and 65% humidity.

In the house.

Maybe we should have put the AC units in after all... Nawwwwww... ;)