Still no leap seconds

Just got a copy of Bulletin C telling me there will be no leap second at the end of June 2004.

That makes over five years now without a leap second (the bulletin said that the difference between TAI and UTC has been constant at UTC-TAI = -32s since 1999-01-01T00:00:00), which surprises me a bit; I thought that leap seconds were introduced, on average, every two or three years.

I suppose the earth has been spinning a bit more regularly since then, or something.

What do you get when you cross "neko" with the BSD daemon?

I came across this userpic of newbiechicktech's and thought it was really nifty—a cross between "neko" (the little cat that follows your mouse cursor around) and the BSD daemon.

Second mention

Just thought I'd mention friend_whoring again. Friend them, just for the heck of it, and tell your friends :)

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Stupid SGML tricks

LiveJournal's HTML cleaner uses a parser which can parse HTML (but also understands XHTML).

This means, for example, that you can leave off quotes on attribute values if they consist only of letters, numbers, hyphens, dots, underscores, and colons. This is the reason why <lj user=exampleusername> and <lj user="exampleusername"> both work to produce exampleusername (though I'd prefer the latter)—the HTML cleaner doesn't see whether there are quotes or not and the output of the parser is the same in either case.

The fact that the cleaner uses an HTML parser also means that it does SGML-style attribute minimisation; if the value of an attribute in an HTML file is the same as its name, then you can leave off the value. For example, you can pre-check a checkbox in HTML with <input type=checkbox name=foo value=27 checked>, which would have to be <input type="checkbox" name="foo" value="27" checked="checked" /> in XHTML (which does not allow attribute minimisation).

And because the parser in the HTML cleaner does this, too, you can say <lj-cut text> (see it in action here: ( text )

) and it'll be parsed the same as <lj-cut text="text"> :p Or even <lj user> which becomes user (i.e. <lj user="user">). Funny.