Spent time yesterday and today going over the complexities of Health Insurance. I have become convinced that Health Insurance is a scam run by a bunch of ex-patriot armadillos down in Arizona. Only they could dream up such convoluted and bizarre rules, regulations, policies. Or perhaps it was just a committee.
I say, deliver me from ex-patriot Arizonian armadillos!
Engineering: overthrowing armadillos.
In other news, I finished the next round of enhancements for my journal client:
- it warns you about unclosed html tags, and will [admittedly stupidly] close them if you submit without fixing them
- it removes some tags automatically, like
<html>and the like - it warns you and automatically removes "LocalWords:" lines so that you can run ispell on your entry and not have to worry about remembering to delete those lines before you submit
Perk pointed out HTML Tidy, which does more or less what is outlined above, but doesn't do the disallowed-tags thing. But it is much smarter about closing tags, replacing incorrect tags with real tags, etc. It also [unfortunately] automatically adds a <TITLE>, which I don't want it to do.
Who knows -- might replace my functionality with HTML Tidy someday. But this works for today, and prevents one <strong from messing up all journal entries.
All for the glory of LAM.
Sadly my telephone headset is falling apart. I need new ear muff thingies (the current ones are flaking off one little black flake at a time), and some wire in the cord is loose -- it cuts in and out randomly. And you know what they say about hardware problems... Actually who the hell cares what they say? Just go buy another one; hardware isn't interesting.
Finally, I got to spend a little quality time with minime today (woo hoo!). Continued to work on the encryption and authentication schemes for the sockets; not quite right yet, but see an older journal entry that describes the scheme.
Minime: coding for fun and profit. Actually, wait, I'm a grad student. s/fun and profit, leaving us with "Minime: coding for".
Perfect.