From the tour diary of JetPlane Landing (no direct link due to the diary being opened in a new window – damn JavaScript):

I am learning more about cahir’s straight to video cop show. John Cutwire, a european immigrant and now LAPD detective, who doesn’t play by the rules. Renne, a french-canadian bloodhound, that saved Cutwire when he was climbing in the Alps visting the motherland. Noone knows where the motherland actually is. From that day forward they have been partners. Bob, is John Cutwires human partner. Nearly, every episode is about Bob either he’s getting kidnapped, framed, hurt or set-up. The stories are generally about revenge, or trying to prove Bob’s innoncence. Renne has an intense dislike for Bob (I haven’t worked out why yet). Its also important to note that although John Cutwire has a strong Noreweigan accent – his character demands that he be cast as an American, who then puts on the Norweigan accent.

Possibly the funniest idea for a TV show ever.

Recently, to solve a puzzle, I wrote a function in PHP that determines whether or not a given string is a palindrome. After a little work, it now works perfectly. It’s not case-sensitive, removes white-space and get’s rid of non-alphanumeric characters.

It’s been added to the Code archive and can be viewed directly.

I decided to clean out my “reading list” the other day. It’s a folder in my Bookmarks of stuff I want to read when I get the time. I deleted most of it before I thought of putting some of it here. So here’s part 1 of what was left, with a lot of other stuff I was looking at today:

• Apparently, if you manage to create a folder on windows called “aux” then you have to go through a whole bunch of instructions to get rid of them. Via Glish.
• Tim Bray, co-creator of XML and good writer, On Semantics and Markup – an interesting read from someone in his position,
• It seems that smiling leads to feeling better and not the other way around. Odd. (Link fixed).

Ok, that’s the lot for the day. More tomorrow.

Syndication, syndication, syndication is all I hear on the web these days. I’ve been providing an RSS 0.91 feed for this site from day one (I think), and now I’ve started supporting Aaron Swartz’s RSS 3.0 standard.

The RSS 3.0 feed for this site was pretty easy to make, all the necessary meta-data gets stored somewhere anyway.

Put on your lederhosen and get ready for some sauerkraut: it’s International German Day! Have a look at some sites related to the wonderful country over there:

• German Toilets: German engineering is better than everywhere else, they say. We say, do something about the loo,
• Funny Phrases: heading to Germany and need to confuse and amuse the locals? Why not spit out a funny German phrase or two? Say number 4 and you’ll have to fight the mädchen off,
• German jokes: Ok, so German jokes aren’t that funny but, um, well, yeah,
• And, of course, Hitler: Now, without trying to offend anyone, apparently Hitler was pretty cool, (if you ignore that Holocaust thing).

Now go forth and tell everyone you meet to enjoy International German Day. If they don’t, we have ways of making them.