What a strange day

[giza]

I had a rather strange day today.

• First, on the way into work, a firetruck overtook me and passed me. Then it turned onto the street that I normally perform my commute on. After I turned onto said street and went about a mile (with no sign of a fire), another firetruck came towards me and passed me. I'm not quite sure where they were going.


• I found out that one of my co-workers helped out with RFC 3888. How cool is that?


• Speaking of work, I discovered a new way in which MSIE really sucks. It seems that one of my PHP scripts, when there is an abnormally large number of records in our application, will take about 15 seconds to load. In FireFox, that's no big deal. But not IE. It will assume that you misttyped the URL and send a TCP RST after about 15 seconds. Then it will display "this page cannot be displayed" with... a DNS error! WTF?
  
  Strangely, it only does this when clicking on a link. It does not do it when a form is submitted or a meta refresh is taking place. Very strange.
  


• Some tractor trailer got in a wreck on 476 Northbound tonight. Not only was traffic backed up for 10 miles+ down the Northbound side, but US-30 and all of the back roads were clogged with people getting off of 476, too. What a pain that was.
  
  I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, when someone gets in a wreck and backs up traffic for miles, that they should be held liable for wasting peoples' time. A class action lawsuit would sure be an interesting thing to try. If only I went into law...