Don't Back Down

I was reading today that the average wedding costs nearly nineteen thousand dollars. On March 22nd of this year, Denise and I were married and ours cost less than $8000, including the rings and honeymoon.

The secret? We kept it small. We started off trying to figure out who to invite. The first problem we ran into is that we were planning on getting married quickly. No, she wasn't pregnant. We were trying to avoid having to make two house payments, so we wanted to combine things as soon as possible. This automatically excluded a number of people who simply wouldn't be able to make arrangements on such short notice.

Read "Wedding Bills" »

I came across a post by someone who found something I wrote to be useful. That's cool. I'm glad someone is reading.

One thing that this post reminded me of, that I didn't mention previously, is the MIME type of the document being served. In the case of HTML, the longstanding tradition has been to serve the document as text/html. This is what we've always done, and this is what most people continue to do now.

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I generally listen to Bob & Tom on my way to work. Like most radio shows, they are often (but not always) entertaining. Some days they just float by in the background and I'd be hard-pressed to remember what is said.

Quit giving me those looks. Listening to Howard Stern or John Boy & Billy does not mean that you enjoy more sophisticated humor. Ace & TJ aren't any better, either- it's just that the jokes are a bit more suitable for family entertainment. Bob & Sheri? Please. It's all noise, it's pretty much all juvenile, and we all enjoy our own flavor. Fair enough?

Read "Watch Out for Beavers" »

I had looked around for a way to create a calendar in my blog that worked like the <MTCalendar> container, but for a week instead of a month. There are all sorts of plugins out there that come close.

Brad Choate has a plugin called onthisday, that allows you to show entries from the same day and different years. Kevin Shay offers DateTags, that probably does everything I want, but looked too complex to me.

Even Movable Type has the days="7" function that comes close - but it includes only entries, and not the days without. So I wrote my own.

Read "MT-SomeDays 1.0.0" »