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1. Phil Baines:

   "Name their youngest daughters Ray" - anyone you met out there? Ray, I mean?

   lol.

   Posted 1 hour, 17 minutes after the fact

2. Phil Baines:

   Hey , I just noticed that your calendar is out of sync. It tells me that today is Saturday.

   Or is it just my mind playing tricks on me, wishing it was saturday and that I didn't have to work tomorrow?

   Posted 1 hour, 19 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Dunstan, ↓ Max, ↓ Dunstan

3. Mark:

   That's not just Arizona...
   The majority of Americans fit that description.
   LOL

   Posted 1 hour, 52 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Hans Hyttinen, ↓ Phil Baines

4. Dunstan:

   Damnit, so it is :o(

   I shall look into it...

   Posted 2 hours, 31 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Phil Baines

   Inspired: ↓ Max

5. Rahul:

   This would be an excellent example of classic Blue Peter "here's one I prepared earlier" action.

   Posted 3 hours, 4 minutes after the fact

6. Hans Hyttinen:

   And perhaps your definition of "Majority" is that of "stereotypical?"

   Yup. It says Saturday. Maybe it's telling us all to not go to work tomorrow, to rebel! Headlines: WORLDWIDE WORK DILEMMA; DUNSTAN'S CALENDAR RUINS ECONOMIES

   Posted 4 hours, 52 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Mark

   Inspired: ↓ Mark

7. Mark:

   Naw, I'm living in america.
   That's how the majority of people are.

   Posted 5 hours, 37 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Hans Hyttinen

8. Max:

   Weird ... not only is your calendar our of sync, the dates aren't quite right.

   Monday is the 29th right, not the 30th?

   Posted 6 hours, 39 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Phil Baines, ↑ Dunstan

   Inspired: ↓ Phil Baines, ↓ Dunstan

9. Phil Baines:

   Max, that was exactly my point. :p

   Mark, dude, Dunstan has asked that we don't bash the Merikans. How about that!

   Posted 11 hours, 42 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Mark, ↑ Max

   Inspired: ↓ Max

10. Max:

    Oops.

    Sorry Phil, I thought you meant it was high-lighting today as the wrong date ... which I now realise it doesn't do at all (at least I don't think it does).

    Colour me a waste of space.

    Posted 11 hours, 48 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Phil Baines

    Inspired: ↓ Phil Baines, ↓ Dunstan

11. Phil Baines:

    No worries.

    However, that would be a good idea also; if it was to highlight the current day/date.

    Dunstan? Do you hear? lol.

    Posted 11 hours, 53 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Max

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan, ↓ Max

12. Dunstan:

    In fact it does highlight the day that the post was made (the day in question sits on a #eee coloured square), but I fear it may be too understated for your monitors to cope with. Subtle colouring is a bugger.

    The actual 'day today' isn't highlighted though. I can't recall why I didn't want to do that?

    Posted 12 hours, 19 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Max, ↑ Phil Baines

    Inspired: ↓ Max, ↓ Phil Baines

13. Max:

    The day-of-the-post highlight is why I made the mistake. It's definitely obvious enough for me.

    I do think it makes much more sense as is. If the user doesn't know what todays' date is then I say too bad ... you're not supposed to be telling us that sort of thing. Putting the actual post in context of the month makes much more sense to me.

    Posted 13 hours, 8 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Phil Baines, ↑ Dunstan

    Inspired: ↓ Phil Baines

14. Phil Baines:

    Oh yeah, it doesn't really matter at all that todays date isn't highlighted. I just thought it might be a nice touch. But, then, the whole thing might get a bit cluttered.

    The 'doy-of-post' background colour is just as obviose for me also. Subtle is good.

    All in all, your site, and your work always impresses me. I can't really find anything that I dont like. It's all good. :)

    Posted 13 hours, 23 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dunstan, ↑ Max

15. Karen:

    A Response (also in jest):

    I bristle at my country's notoriety;
    We're not all of the "freedom fries" variety
    :-)

    Posted 20 hours, 25 minutes after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

16. Dunstan:

    Hee hee :o)

    Posted 20 hours, 30 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Karen

17. Melissa:

    Too funny! I especially like the first one. For some reason it makes me feel like dancing a jig. :)

    I am impressed with your site, by the way. The tutorial on image shadows is great, even though I'm still trying to master it, hehe. :) Have a good week!

    Posted 1 day, 7 hours after the fact

18. Dunstan:

    Ah, I fixed the calendar, it was due to improper use of PHP's gmmktime().

    Thanks for spotting that, chaps.

    Posted 1 week, 1 day after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Phil Baines, ↑ Max

19. Phil Baines:

    No worries. If I didn't notice it someone else would have.

    So, I don't know PHP much, what does gmmktime() do?

    Posted 1 week, 1 day after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

20. Dunstan:

    Well, mktime gets (creates) a unix timestamp for a date [1], and gmmktime gets a unix timestamp for a GMT date [2].

    I was using the gmmktime on a date that the server was returning, but the server wasn't in the UK, it was in the US - so my calculations were wrong.

    All part of the fun of moving servers and timezones :o)

    [1] http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
    [2] http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.gmmktime.php

    Posted 1 week, 1 day after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Phil Baines

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