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Last night Emma put our large cooler on top of the small trampoline we have and climbed on top with a plastic grocery bag. I managed to convince her that it wouldn’t quite work as a parachute, and instead suggested we try something else. We ended up making parachutes out of a plastic garbage bag, string, and some tape. The only tools used were a magic marker and a pair of scissors. We attached the parachutes to little people that the girls had and then tossed them from the top of the swing set. It was a great success. Here’s a photo of one of them sailing through the air.

I have a confession to make. even though I’ve been using computers for well over 20 years, I am unable to use a standard office fax machine. There’s some sort of mental block there. I used to think it was because fax machines don’t have a mouse, or perhaps because they don’t have a command line. I don’t know… but I do know that it take me an average of 5 attempts to send a fax. Do I have to dial a 9 first? Do I dial a 1? What does the alternating beeping mean? Mysteries of the modern day office, indeed.

Now I can send and receive faxes, as long as they come in from eFax, and get sent via capturing them with the flatbed scanner, and sending them via software. Otherwise, forget it. You’ll either get 4 copies from me, or you’ll call me back asking if I ever got a chance to fax it. I might as well send email with an attachment.

There, the truth is known. I can’t operate a fax machine.

ChefMoz:

…read and write restaurant reviews here, but you’ll also find direct links to reviews on other sites. It’s all the work of our volunteer editors, who scour the web to collect restaurant information for you. We also accept reviews and restaurant information from the public.

Now that we can actually promote the use of Mozilla and not conflict with the goals of the Mozilla Project, EvangelMoz will get up and running again real soon now.

(The site is yet to be updated, but the mailing list is running…)

And from the list comes this interesting page from the University of Washington on why you might want to switch browsers.

We here are Rasterboy Enterprises use HTML-Template for many things. We’ve found it a good templating language. It’s simple, and does one thing very well, rather than try to do everything, and not succeed at any. Oh, it’s also extremely easy to install, unlike other template toolkits I won’t mention the name of…

While we’ve only used the Perl version, HTML-Template is available for the following languages:

• Perl
• PHP
• PHP (another one!)
• Python
• Java
• Ruby
• Common Lisp

So the next time you’re looking to fulfill your templating needs, check out HTML-Template, even if you use one of those silly language that isn’t Perl.

(Where’s the ASP and ColdFusion versions?)