Gordaen’s Blog

I am taking a Women’s Studies course at the university as my last general requirement. When I signed up for it, I figured the course would be about the difference between the perspectives of men and women, empowering women, and perhaps some historical info about influential women. It is actually about prejudice… and […]

A while back I posted about how IE6 and the beta versions of IE7 had problems with option tags. According to W3 standards, if no value attribute is specified, then the browser should use the text value (i.e., the value between the opening and closing option tags).

It is time for another English lesson. Last time, I covered quite a few of the really common mistakes in speech and on blogs in particular. This time I am going to focus on some of the spelling/grammar errors that result from the human tendency to have a lazy mouth that does not properly pronounce […]

I received a letter today from the county auditor. Upon seeing where it came from, I immediately knew great excitement was awaiting me! I threw it on the counter for a few minutes and eventually took the time to open it. The letter read like this:

Someone in a forum a week or two ago was asking about manipulating RSS feeds with simple PHP. I had not really done much with this, but I was definitely interested in it. Creating a PHP script which outputs a custom XML feed is not too hard, but it can be really redundant […]