[Mycroft Holmes]

I remarked on your typos because they are rare in your tightly reasoned prose. You are on the short list of people I read for content rather than amusement.

WRT to the joke; artists copy, genius steals outright and convinces everyone that it is his own. I think you know who you are, sir.

I confess to a certain uber-geekishness. The page was a response to a neurological condition that has pretty much destroyed my short term memory. It started much like null and void's cheat sheet but it evolved.

At some point it occurred to me that I could somewhat replace my failing memory with a database driven web page. After I got it working to my satisfaction I read yet another post of the form "Gee I wish I could program computers, I have such Wonderful Ideas about how things should work." That inspired the Xampp tutorial. I don't think anyone has actually worked through it; but I have a teenager I intend to inflict it on so it isn't wasted effort.

[nathanbedford]

I have three teenagers that I would like to inflict reality upon. But your idea seems to be about as good as any reason that I can think of to keep teenagers around the house. I have been keeping them around and even feeding them in order to get the lawn mowed and the snow shoveled but all in vain. Maybe your idea will work.