A little blog for a restless mind: June 2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005

On Vacation

Well then, my bus leaves in 45 minutes. I'm going on vacation! Ta ta! See you after 2 weeks. ;)

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

The Longest Day

Happy longest day of the year!
And for those on the "wrong" hemisphere, happy shortest day of the year! I guess you'll have Christmas in 4 days. :]
As for me, 9 days until my vacations.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Woman Remote

I found a very handy remote, the Woman Remote.
I bet this man would find it very useful.

Friday, June 10, 2005

World Naked Bike Ride

Tomorrow in over 50 cities over the world people will express their protest against the dependence on oil (and other forms of unrenewable energy) by cycling naked. Somehow I doubt this will cause anything more than a day's sensation.

Friday, June 03, 2005

IE Stopper XHTML Code

I've just stumbled upon a piece of XHTML code in a discussion I've been reading that causes Internet Explorer not to show the page, but it's correctly rendered in Mozilla, for example. Thus, the code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>I won't run on IE. I'm amazing :)</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <script src="randomfoobar.js" type="text/javascript" />
    <!--The magic bit is the XML-compliant ending on the <script> tag. IE dies when it encounters this...-->
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>You cannot see this using IE.</h1>
    <hr />
    So if you're reading this, then you must be smart.
  </body>
</html>

I've tested it and it doesn't show in IE on my Windows XP computer, but it does work with Mozilla.
I'm thinking about "decorating" the template of my blog with this trick, muahahahaaaaa...

Thursday, June 02, 2005

The Worth of Money

I came across an article that sums it up nicely what the global economic trend is. The worthless dollar, declining quality of living, media junk, and so on. And how it will all just implode one day. You might want to read at least the last two paragraphs.
There is also mention of fiat money in the article. For those that don't know it is the money made up from thin air, with no backing whatsoever, usually by central banks or government decrees. It has no intrinsic value (no effort has gone into making it, it doesn't represent anything, it has no backing). It always eventually becomes worthless.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

You Have To Be Nuts To Smoke

I found results of a study that shows that nearly half of the smokers in the USA have a mental illness. Doing drugs and alcohol has also been counted as mental illnesses so perhaps it's not as severe as it sounds.

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