Today is Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:34:47 +0100
It is day 250 and week 36 of 2010. There are 115 days left in the year
Born Today
- 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I.
- 1860 - Grandma Moses.
- 1914 - James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
Events Today
- 1880 - George Ligowsky of Cincinnati is granted a patent for his device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters.
- 1971 - The last episode of The Beverly Hillbillies airs, (well doggie).
This is a PHP implementation of Puppet Master's original perl script (however I cannot locate his/her site despite the popularity of the script). There are some advantages in that and probably some disadvantages. The code is available to tinker with, so is the data file. If you do make improvements please contact me (I'll even set up decent versioning etc), I am particularly keen to add dates that are less eurocentric. If you do add to the data file it is structured so that the first character (B,S or R) sets a Birthdate, an Event or a Reminder. This is followed by month (always two characters), day (always two characters) and year (4 characters, optional for reminders or unknown. Three numeral years are preceded by a space and there is no support for BC). The next character is use to indicate if a reminder must fall on a certain day (this is a bit of a quick and dirty solution for the moment). Finally the string after that is the description that you want to see appear on the webpage.