After seeing Mark Pilgrim's site and noticing that it's a "no-table" design, I want to make my site table-less I wonder how much of a chore it'll be.

Turns out it's a huge chore. Internet Explorer doesn't seem to be up to the task. It's funny, every time I change the design of my site, I go a little bit further into "modern" design practices (CSS instead of <font>s and spacer gifs, divs instead of tables, etc.). Every time I stop just a little beyond where Internet Explorer can make it. Mozilla's been around and largely correct in its layout for a few iterations of Internet Explorer now. Yet again, Mozilla can handle what I'm trying to do just fine, but Internet Explorer is hopeless. I think I'm going to adopt Sjoerd's view for now, "Changing ... from table cells to divs don't suddenly make them more meaningful".

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Via DiveIntoMark, yet (many) more IE security holes.

And via NewsGeek.net, yet another Hotmail security hole.

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Man, such a good episode of Smallville!

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The Committee on Bible Translation is producing an updated version of the NIV which they're calling the TNIV, or Today's New International Version. Right now they have the New Testament done, and they plan to have the Old Testament finished by 2005.

According to their figures, 93% of the text is identical to the NIV, with the remaining 7% change given to increasing accuracy in some good ways. They've replaced "Christ" with "Messiah" where "the underlying Greek functions as a title". This next one's important, and earlier inaccuracies have led to some controversy. They've increased precision in some places where the New Testament refers to "the Jews" to render it as "the Jewish leaders", etc. where the context warrants it. They've also updated some language into clearer terminology... instead of Mary being "with child", she's "pregnant", for instance. Finally, for potentially the most controversial change, they've added "gender-neutral" terminology "where the meaning of the text was intended to include both men and women". So instead of "sons of the living God" it'll be "children of the living God", instead of "he who believes", it's "whoever believes". Most importantly they've kept all references to God in the masculine, which as far as I know were also made "gender-neutral" in other attempts at gender-neutral translation (which would be very very bad).

Here's the TNIV FAQ, here are some quick facts (the who, what, where, when, why, and how), and finally, here's a bunch of sample changes that were made; most seem to be for the better, although I really get irked by the use of the plural pronoun "they" instead of the singular pronoun "he" where it refers to a single person and the gender is not specific (likewise with "them" and "him"). I'm watching their video now

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Nah ah, off the top of my head they've showed Buffy and Spike doing it at least two times, not to mention the time when Buffy was invisible When I wrote about Spike ramming Buffy in public places, I wasn't kidding. One time right outside the McDonald's rip-off, and one time in the rafters of the Bronze. Both were with clothes on, but it was pretty obvious what was happening... eew, gross.

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Does Vim run on the Vax? Ok, it does... I hope I can install it on my public server at school. It would be great to be able to use a good editor What editor comes with VMS by default, anyway?

Hey, thanks to Zoltan Arpadffy, I can download a precompiled version of Vim for OpenVMS! And it's version 6 too! The weird thing is, from what's on his site it looks like he just compiled it a few hours ago. That's awesome. Happy day Ok, the download just finished, time to see if I can get it to work. I recently found out I can FTP into the school's VAX server, which is great. Even if I don't get this to work well I'll be able to FTP in with EditPlus.

Curses, foiled again! They have a paltry <1meg disk quota, and in it's smallest incarnation VIM6 is over a meg.

Well, I found a smaller version of Vim with most features disabled At least I have it available if I need it.

Otherwise, check out Compaq's OpenVMS documentation, and especially their OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, as well as the OpenVMS FAQ.

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