Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 31, 2007 at 5:51:35 PM
got home early today; hooray for bosses who let the team go early the day before a holiday!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 30, 2007 at 9:47:52 PM
@wnalyd if you really gave up, you missed a helluva touchdown with :04 left in the half. CU is back in the game
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 29, 2007 at 7:09:50 PM
is watching football. Football today. Football tomorrow. Football Monday. & Tuesday. & Wednesday. & Thursday. Gawd I love this time of year.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 27, 2007 at 11:58:47 AM
hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates IE
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 26, 2007 at 12:02:39 PM
just lost three hours of changes when a co-worker overwrote them.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 24, 2007 at 10:49:27 PM
is relaxing after another successful Christmas Eve dinner with my brother and sister-in-law.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 24, 2007 at 10:38:44 AM
just sold his remaining stock in Lucent, er, Alcatel-Lucent. Good riddance.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 24, 2007 at 9:22:40 AM
just got back from the doctor; looks like a cold, nothing worse
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 23, 2007 at 5:40:41 AM
thinks sore throats are a pain in the neck
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2007 at 4:48:24 PM
is working out a way to implement HTML-based tooltips accessibly
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2007 at 9:58:43 AM
is trying to improve accessibility on a current project
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 19, 2007 at 12:42:05 AM
just discovered two packages at our garage door that were delivered this afternoon. Fucking UPS fucking up again. Front door, please.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 18, 2007 at 8:38:50 PM
is not loving the commute from hell (and I've got it pretty good compared to what I could have had....)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 17, 2007 at 4:37:42 PM
@goodwitch hooray! Good news!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 17, 2007 at 11:08:36 AM
is waiting for a properly configured computer
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 16, 2007 at 4:45:46 PM
is happy to have made it through the slush and snow up to and back from the in-laws' house intact.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2007 at 11:10:16 PM
@goodwitch thanks for the tip; Jello seems to have done the trick before I saw this. Phew!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2007 at 10:46:54 PM
is tired of having hiccups. Been going on for at least a half hour. :-P
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2007 at 2:52:18 PM
@wnalyd tnx! Word of the Year!!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2007 at 2:34:06 PM
@andrea thanks!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2007 at 2:27:31 PM
@doublesided yes; starting Monday, in NYC. I just accepted the offer.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 13, 2007 at 11:03:57 AM
is watching the "wintry mix" come down outside. Bleah.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 13, 2007 at 9:31:05 AM
just got back from breakfast with an old friend. Fun!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 12, 2007 at 2:08:14 PM
@doublesided, this is true, no reason required, but I might need an excuse to be listening to Sandinista instead of London Calling :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 12, 2007 at 2:01:18 PM
@surlyshirley yes; Laura and I saw it at the IFC Center in NYC the first weekend it was out. Music was too loud, but otherwise wonderful
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 12, 2007 at 10:08:02 AM
just finished rereading Redemption Song, the Joe Strummer bio. On a big Clash kick this week for some reason.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 11, 2007 at 11:23:12 AM
has another f2f interview, either on Friday or Monday, with an agency in NYC
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 11, 2007 at 10:45:22 AM
just got a call from a recruiter about a job. A job I interviewed for a week ago last Friday.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 11, 2007 at 12:11:02 AM
is very sad to hear of the death of Anita Rowland, one of the sweetest bloggers ever.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 8, 2007 at 11:56:38 PM
is tired of being sick. Hopefully the antibiotics are working.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 8, 2007 at 11:41:59 PM
is even more depressed to read in the Times that The Clean opened for Yo La Tengo's Hanukkahpalooza in Hoboken this past week. Augh!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 8, 2007 at 6:51:02 PM
is glad that the lower divisions of college football have playoffs, otherwise I would be going through withdrawal
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 8, 2007 at 1:54:02 PM
is reminded why he doesn't like listening to streaming audio online by the "Rebuffering Stream" dialog on his screen
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2007 at 4:34:18 PM
is sad to discover that The Clean played New York last weekend and I didn't even know about it. &*%$!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2007 at 11:10:09 AM
@alunr have you tried odbc_fetch_array?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 6, 2007 at 4:14:50 PM
is reading up on walking pneumonia. :-P
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 5, 2007 at 8:33:15 PM
found old Usenet messages in Gopherspace from 1981 that were written by a former boss
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 5, 2007 at 8:08:12 PM
is surfing Gopherspace with TurboGopher.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 5, 2007 at 12:11:34 AM
just woke up from a nightmare about all the air in the world disappearing. Nasty stuff.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 3, 2007 at 3:50:20 PM
didn't get no love from the startup he interviewed with before Thanksgiving. Oh well.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 3, 2007 at 8:29:37 AM
wishes he had some sunshine and Welsh language ska
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 2, 2007 at 9:13:24 AM
didn't expect to wake up this morning to snow
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 1, 2007 at 11:48:45 PM
loves chaos in sports; college football has another weekend of obliging. BCS foodfight!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 1, 2007 at 9:34:08 PM
would like to, just once, see an athlete thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendages for his/her performance on the field.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 1, 2007 at 10:12:24 AM
thinks that Michigan and Nebraska are pretty low for leaking news about Les Miles and Bo Pelini before LSU finishes its season.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 30, 2007 at 11:53:25 PM
didn't win the lottery. Again. Damn. Next time for sure.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 30, 2007 at 7:33:12 PM
is recovering from brutal questioning of my HTML and Javascript knowledge. I think I passed, but the guy had a poker face, so who knows....