Martin Geisler Online

Why is it that people try to grap gimpster.com with MS FrontPage? (I went to www.microsoft.com to try and find a direct link, but their search-form didn’t work. Lame…) It just won’t work — I use PHP exclusively :-) When people request a missing document, I get a mail like this:

Gimpster.com encountered a 404 Not Found!
$REQUEST_URI: /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
$HTTP_REFERER: $REMOTE_ADDR: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
$QUERY_STRING:
$HTTP_USER_AGENT: MSFrontPage/4.0 

The mail is generated by my “404 — Not Found” page. Every time someone makes an invalid request, I recieve a mail. It’s mostly spiders sent out from search-engines, that try to follow old links, who trigger this.

I’ve decided to try and make these updates more often. So I’ve added this command to my ~/.xinitrc-file:

sleep 45 && $HOME/html/gimpster.com/include/news/new-news.sh &

What is does is this: first it sleeps for 45 seconds. After that, it opens Emacs for me — ready to write some news. Let’s hope it works :-)

Today Kristian (Cookie) and I are writing some text to what it known in Danish as the Blue Book. Every class in the gymnasium writes something about the people in the class, and this is collected into a Blue Book.

Unfortunately the other two in our little group is missing — this means that Kristian (Cookie) and I are free to write about all the stupid things they have done… :-)

I’ve just printed a physics-report written in MS Word. It was a group-assignment, so we wrote it in Word, instead of LaTeX, because the other half of the group only use Word.

Not only did Word freeze at least once, but the math produced by the Equation-editor just looks somewhat odd compared to the output produced by LaTeX. The worst thing is probably the spacing. It’s simply wrong in many places. I hope that I won’t have to struggle with Word again for some time :-)

The winter came — and went again. The last five days or so have been really cold here in Denmark. And we’ve had a lot of snow also. But now it’s started to thaw, which means that you can’t step outside without getting your feet wet… You can find much more information about this exciting development here, at my friend Kristian’s page :-)