Aaaarggh!

I finally figured out what the problem with HTML charsets that I had been having--and had been having off and on for ten bloody years at this job...

My TEXT EDITOR was automatically coding the files I was writing in ANSI and not UTF-8. So, I presume, any HTML it produced was going up as ANSI, and while the charset declaration was UTF-8, and bad things happened to special characters.

In conclusion: HTML charsets can still bite Mello's fabulous ass. And so can smart quotes.

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And on a happier note, after seeing Mad Max: Fury Road I read the only two bad reviews of it on Rotten Tomatoes, and they both essentially said: too much action, not enough plot.

Ahem. DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT MOVIE YOU WERE GOING TO SEE?

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Breaking down the chaos of a Mad Max car chase. (YouTube, no Fury Road spoilers, spoilers for Road Warrior.)

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Comments about theme in Mad Max: Fury Road from Fanfare.Metafilter.com.

( Cut for spoilers )

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And while I'm on Metafilter...sleary got linked to by MeFi! Her post is How publishers could get more of my money (and make me happy to give it.

And now to close this browser window and get back to banging my head against an annoyingly large tangle of if...then statements for building a link from a database recordset that I need to translate to a new layout.

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actual comment i have just put into my actual code

'******************************** begin bizarre tangle of ifs DO NOT MESS WITH THE TABS OR I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN WITH SCORPIONS

I'm working with decade-old code, trying to figure out how it does what it does so I can rewrite it for my new site and AAAAUUUGGHHH the mess of if statements here.