While working on some internal Web forms for Cadence, I came across a bonafide browser bug that I had never seen before.  Some people were filling out a form, but the form sometimes wouldn't work -- data was lost, and we couldn't figure out why.  Eventually I had eliminated bugs in my PHP code and as a last resort, I put a sniffer on the wire to watch the traffic.  What I found was amazing to me.  Internet Explorer 6 will fail to encode data properly (wiping out the first field) under very particular circumstances.  What's interesting is that, searching across the Internet, I found lots of people having the bug but not a lot of solutions.  That's odd, right?  I mean, IE 6 is a really old browser.  All the problems with it should have workarounds now, just as the box model issues in IE 6 do.  But this doesn't.  So I'll go over what I found, and how I fixed it.

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Do you visit rpg.net?  It's a site for people who enjoy role-playing games.  If you visit that site, and are a bit overwhelmed by the huge number of forum topics about 4th edition D&D, I have got a prize for you.  I have created a script for Firefox's Greasemonkey plugin.  It's free.  It's called Drop 4e 4 rpg, available on userscripts.org.  It will hide any topic that is tagged as 4th edition.  Have fun.

-Tony

My domain outshine.com is going to be auctioned by either the Great Domains auction house, or by Moniker domain auctions.  Not sure which yet.  Anybody have suggestions?

The domain name should appeal to anyone doing online ratings systems, or for any "best of the best" product.  Outshine is a simple, short dictionary word, so I'm hoping people like it!  I've had the domain since 1998, and it's well-ranked on Google.  If you know someone who is interested, put them in touch with me.

My revised 2009 resume is now ready (it has all my recent PHP experience at Yahoo! added in).  If any recruiters or company execs working in the Silicon Valley would like to review it, please contact me.  I'll send it along privately.

I'm sorry but this is the most terrible and funny thing I have seen in a while.

If you don't know why this is so awful and hilarious, that's OK.  Don't figure it out.