My excitement at finally having finished another parody was dulled somewhat when I went to submit it, and after filling in all the text boxes in the first page (submit.shtml), the following text got added into the bottom comments box in display_parody.cgi, rather than being parsed as html.

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All right, we´ll hand you the best-computer-related-parody award right away. Just one question though: What original song are we supposed to sing it to?  :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D

Wow....I'm glad that didn't happen to me, and I'm even a minor techy! :o I was thinking of naming my band Parse Error & The T-Strings, since I kept on getting an error message like that when I was trying to get my forums up and running..... Maybe it's just me, but Parse sounds like a fruit and T-String sounds like some kind of bikini....

My excitement at finally having finished another parody was dulled somewhat when I went to submit it, and after filling in all the text boxes in the first page (submit.shtml), the following text got added into the bottom comments box in display_parody.cgi, rather than being parsed as html.


maybe there was a " or > in there or something that didn't get interpreted as part of the parody and instead looked like HTML.  I thought there was something in there to convert all those characters and prevent stuff like that from happening, but maybe a field is getting overlooked or something.

All right, we´ll hand you the best-computer-related-parody award right away. Just one question though: What original song are we supposed to sing it to?  :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D


Heh... I have always dreamed of writing a parody that would compile in some language or another. No idea how I'd do it, but it would be really amusing.


Oh, and I found the problem. Turns out I forgot the end " in my link tag. Now I feel all stupid...

Heh... I have always dreamed of writing a parody that would compile in some language or another. No idea how I'd do it, but it would be really amusing.

Oh, I've written lots that compile... not that they scan, rhyme or mean very much.  Or are even parodies, come to think of it ;)

It'd be an interesting challenge, methinks...