Live from Austin!

As reported by MSN:

“If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he’d have made you a girl.”

—Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama

I love the school’s suggested compromise: that the kid could be allowed to wear earrings for a few minutes a day, while eating lunch—so long as he’s kept out of sight in the principal’s office. Gotta make sure he doesn’t turn any of the other kids queer, after all.

Confession is good for the soul, and too many tech people are incapable of admitting they made a mistake. So with that in mind:

I wasted several minutes of someone’s time this week because I mistakenly thought a URL was syntactically invalid. It was invalid according to RFC 1738, but I’d forgotten the EBNF for relative URLs in RFC 1808.

Apologies to anyone who thought I was infallible.