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As promised, here are a few things that I'd put to good use if you aren't using them:

  • Muffin tin(s)
  • Mixing bowl
  • Small plates (bread/side plate sized)
  • Saucepan (small or medium
  • Pitcher (1.5 L or so)
  • Chef's knife
  • Comforter for queen-sized bed
  • Patio stones (4)
  • Recipe box (index-card sized)
  • Salad bowl

Please don't go to too much trouble — these are less-urgent things that I'll get if they aren't floating around my local friends, but I'm hoping I can help you clear things out and round out the house for the kids and me!

Edit: Updated the list. Thanks [personal profile] ironphoenix, Simon and neighbours with "à donner" stuff at the end of their driveways!

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Is anyone using the "tab groups" feature in the Firefox 4 beta? Is there an easy way to flip between groups? What benefits are you getting out of the feature, if any? It looks promising, but also a little clunky.
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I'm looking for recommendations for a Windows FTP program, preferably a simple, Free Software or freeware utility that lets users drag and drop from their usual explorer windows and won't be too scary for people who might be new to FTP: I'm going to teach a workshop soon and I want people on each platform to be running the same software (I'm a Mac person, but it's a big tent). Any suggestions are appreciated!

Also, on the off chance that there exists such a thing as a Linux user who wants to learn very basic HTML, what are the (again, free in one way or another) text editor and FTP client that Just Work and are good for beginners on there?
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So, this morning my rear derailleur died semi-dramatically on me (it is now hanging only by its cable), changing "I should get my bike looked at by a pro sometime this summer when I have time" to "I should get it fixed ASAP." On the first day of a transit strike, of all things.

Then, between appointments, I open up my laptop, and it freezes on me. Badly. And has been spotty in starting up and freeze-y since, thus preventing me from doing much of anything with it.

I'm going to be running around trying to resuscitate my technological extensions for a while. Goodbye productivity for the same while, probably.
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Two people just rang the doorbell to ask for directions to Fripe-Prix. It's a block away.
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update: fixed with help from [livejournal.com profile] plautus (and an interesting alternate explanation from [livejournal.com profile] tylerpistol)


I'm writing some PHP to take XML from a file. The file's in ISO-8859-1, and contains French accents and typesetter's quotes in its character data and some of its attributes. I've taken care to make the parser adapt itself to the character set and demanded that its target character set is also ISO-8859-1:

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create("");
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING,"ISO-8859-1");
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1);
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);

...

I set up a tag handler to turn an "in_prose" variable on and off (based, not surprisingly, on whether the parser is inside a "prose" element), when it's on I want to suck it into an array element using my cdataHandler function:

...

function cdataHandler($parser,$data){
	if ($_SESSION["in_prose"]){
		$_SESSION["evenements"][$_SESSION["current_event"]]["prose"]=$data;
	}
}

Alas, it tends to chop off the beginning of the text. It's not predictably before any given character, or any predictable length, as far as I can tell. It's just dismembered when I echo it back. Any idea what might be causing this? Any safety measures I can take?

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Anyone know how to get mail to change SMTP servers automatically when I choose a new network location? I'm running OS X 10.4 and it'd be really cool to be able to switch locations without digging around in Mail preferences...

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