Archive for November, 2008

As the polls close…

“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the [...]

Religulous, Bill Maher’s new movie

I thought I liked Bill Maher. I mean ideologically, I agree with him on just about everything and he’s funny and half Jewish. (I seem to have a disproportionate amount of Jewish friends for a recovering Catholic). But this movie really swayed my opinion of him. I knew he had a [...]

Happy Day

How Barack Obama defied history
Today is a good day.

The death of physical media

It was odd today. I ran into a friend who just purchased a collection of CDs from a record store and I was kind of taken back. I mean, not that she bought CDs, but that you still could. I haven’t stepped foot into a store or purchased a CD in years [...]

XSL for Line breaking long words

I spent a few hours searching for, but had no luck in finding this. So I’m posting what I wrote!
This XSL will put a zero length space character into any word longer then 20 characters in any text node of the current XML document.
There is of course always better ways to do things, but [...]