Today is Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:27:34 +0100
It is day 234 and week 34 of 2008. There are 131 days left in the year
Born Today
- 1660 - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building.
- 1936 - Mart Crowley
- 1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, very tall basketball player.
- 1938 - Kenny Rogers, singer, songwriter, sometime actor.
Events Today
- 1887 - Mighty (Dan) Casey STRUCK OUT in a game with the N.Y. Giants!
- 1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50th state.
- 1968 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
- 1973 - First house made entirely out of recycled products is finished, in Richmond, VA.
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.