For all you pinheads out there who are flocking to the Atkins Diet, maybe you should start eating at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. Apparently one of their newest "gourmet" entrees is the new high protein salad. Sounds yummy, doesn't it meat eaters?
I've finally managed to get this blog page XHTML compliant! After much trial and tribulation, I've managed to track down all of the issues and get it to validate properly. That said, it may fail the validation on various pages because some of the older entries may not be 100% compliant. It's unlikely that I'm going to go back and track down all of the errors as they aren't critical, but then again being as anal as I am, I just might! In the process of working on the XHTML compliance, I was able to implement one of the changes I had been wanting to do. That being, the updated display look so entries now standoff in a sort of "box in a box" fashion. I believe it gives it a cleaner look and differentiates each entries. You might not see it that way, but then again it isn't your blog, now is it? ;) And now it's time to move to the next level. …more
I found this project nearly a year ago, but for some reason it never made its way into the WTMT! collection until now. Now I've been known to more than happily quaff a beer or two on occasion, but this is just silly. For starters, if you need this thing, you need to either (a) not drink, or (b) drink faster. Besides, in the picture's it's a Guinness. Generally, I find with a quality dark beer like this it's usually too cold and I need to warm it in my hands to get it to a suitable drinking temperature. But if you're one of those knuckleheads who's still drinking cheap american swill, then by all means start building! The colder you can get that shit, the less of it's nearly tasteless, horid flavor you will be exposed too! And for future reference kids, "Quality over quantity".
I've added a new Stock Quotes section to the site that is powered by a modified version of PHP-Quote. This PHP class had the basic guts in it to retrieve quotes from Yahoo! Finance, but had some funtionality and display issues with it from my perspective. These issues were resolved by writing a new get_single_table() function to replace the print_single_table() function. This new function returns the HTML code instead of printing it and also is XHTML compliant. I also expanded the table to include the date as well as the time. Additional, I created CSS classes in my site CSS instead of using the Insert_Style_Sheet() function in this class. Again, I don't like direct printing from functions and it really wouldn't work within my site's framework. Seems to work for me and hope it does for you also!
I was absolutely shocked to hear the news reports [1][2]that "Il Pirata", The Pirate died this past weekend at only 34 years of age. Marco had been dealing with a lot personal issues in the past couple of years and unfortunately, never got a chance for true redemption in the professional cycling world. A lot of charges had been leveled against him, many which he was cleared of after a long battle. Was he completely innocent? We may never know, although my personal believe was that unfortunately he likely was not. But prior to his troubles, Marco was clearly the most amazing climber I had ever seen. At his peak, this man could go up mountains fasters than anyone in the sport. His life and career were far too short. Rest in peace Il Pirata.
[Updated: 07:41am EST, 22 Mar 2004]
And the sad news continues as it has now been confirmed by the inquest that Marco's death was caused by an "acute cocaine intoxication".