Session Handling

I got the session handling to work on my major project at long last! It turned out that the problem was that a variable was being considered out of scope when, in my opinion, it shouldn't have. Anyway, a small change of a keyword and all is fixed again. It is now possible to store anything I want in the session and have it maintained for me, even the word Brussened.

In other news my sinuses (sinusi?) still hurt. Oh, and in other other news the Univerity's network has been all over the place today and last night. There's no telling what it's going to do next. Each time it goes down it goes down hard and, for some reason, it crashes Firefox on my main machine each time. Mind you I am running a "preview copy" so perhaps they fixed it in the release version - it doesn't crash on the laptop after-all and that's the release version.

Oh, by the way, according to that incredibly reliable news source "The Sun" (which is known for its' fair and unbiased journalism) Christmas will be banned by next year. Apparrently this year the words "Merry Christmas" have been removed from thousands of cards in favour of "Seasons Greetings" because it could prove offensive to people who are not Christian. IF THEY ARE SO OFFENDED BY CHRISTIANITY, WHY ARE THEY LIVING IN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY?! Oh great, The Sun just made me resort to underlined capitals. This is why I don't read newspapers. It was one of my flatmates reading this out last night that sparked my attention. The article claims Christmas Trees have been removed from job centres up and down the country, and there is a bill in its second reading which will make it illegal to show that one is a Christian by the use of symbollism, such as Christmas trees.

Now feel free to stop me at any point ... but surely Christmas trees have nothing to do with Christianity anyway? The 3 wise men brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. I don't ever remember reading of them arriving on a reindeer-pulled sleigh with a conifer in the back, or them wearing jolly festive fur-trimmed red suits with jolly white beards. As I recall they were in Bethlehem at the time which isn't well known for its snow. Nor was there anyone called "Santa" climbing down chimneys to give children presents. So even if this bill exists and is indeed in its second reading, surely Christmas trees and santas could not be made illegal?

I therefore propose that The Sun is talking a big steaming pile of crap as per usual, or that the entire world is going insane. Sadly both are equally plausible.