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Posted by Travis on 2005-10-04 10:19:58 +0000

Ronnie Barker RIP fucking html....

Posted by tgl on 2005-10-04 14:03:55 +0000

Open standards are a sweet thing, welcome.

Posted by Travis on 2005-10-04 17:09:18 +0000

is BB code an open standard? (just curious) much more understandable for people like me for whom drinking at lunchtime is in the job description

Posted by tgl on 2005-10-04 17:23:59 +0000

No, while the standard is freely available, not everyone agrees to support it. BBCode is meant to be interpreted by the server, which converts it to valid HTML that the browser will render. So, if the server changes methods of doing things, you aren't gauranteed that the special BBCode formats will be supported. Not that you are gauranteed that the special HTML formats will be supported, but since a very large number of people agree on the HTML format, it's much more likely.

Posted by rladew on 2005-10-04 18:29:33 +0000

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Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-10-09 11:41:17 +0000

I know - I cried. Why couldn´t God have taken this little one first?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-10-09 11:46:29 +0000

2001/2002 was pretty damned bad too: Joey Ramone 1951-2001 Joey Ramone, frontman of one of the first punk bands ever, died at 2:40 p.m.on April 15. Joey Ramone was the voice of the Ramones, the band that paved the way for such punk legends as the Sex Pistols and the Clash. The Ramones’ formula was simple: Four chords, four guys, same last name and no song over two minutes. George Harrison 1943-2001 George Harrison’s death on November 29 was so much more than the passing of a legend, more than the passing of “the quiet Beatle,” the “spiritual Beatle,” it was the passing of a man. A man, who more than a legend, was a Beatle, father and husband … Harrison’s death reminds there world that legends have ends. Legends don’t live forever, despite the fact that they may be deified by the masses — gods they are not. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are the last living links to the Beatles now. Joe Strummer 1952-2002 John Graham Mellor, better known as Joe Strummer, outspoken frontman of pioneering British punks The Clash, died Dec. 22, 2002 at his home, of heart failure. He was famous for his loathing of cheap sentiment, so I say this as a cold hard matter of fact rather than as the kind of groveling graveside praise he would have hated; Strummer’s influence as singer, songwriter, lyricist and artist/activist are immeasurable and epitomize the upper most peaks of what popular music is capable. He was the George Orwell of rock, a delicate mix of unforgiving skepticism for both sides and honest empathy for the downtrodden. Edited to add: I did not write these obits.