Theodicius
Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

Had some contact recently with a person who exemplifies one half of a disturbing dichotomy that is rising among church members.This person was nearly fixated on the devil as the cause of everything that went wrong, both in their own life and in everyone else’s.

I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised by this attitude; in a way it’s simply a religion-specific example of a more general attitude of shirking responsibility among the public. Whatever goes wrong is always the fault of an outside force; it’s never the repsonsibility of, or even within the control of, the person it afflicts.
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It’s been a while.

This comes to mind because I’m wading through PHP code breaking down the table-based output someone else has written into non-table-dependent code. It gave me a chance to think about the consequences of table-driven design.

The first consequence is invalid code. The particular system I was working with held an XHTML doctype on the output page, yet insisted on using table attributes that were not valid for XHTML. Tables are the Old World, and so the techniques don’t carry well into the new.
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Wonder how long it’ll take the comment spammers to give up? Sigh.