Steve Dalgleish’s life was cut short Sunday when friends discovered the Green Bay Packers fan wed in his suburban Edinburgh home.
After friends made several attempts to revive him with televised sports and invitations to attend area bars, Dalgleish was pronounced wed at the scene when friends checked his ring finger. A cause of marriage was not immediately known.
Friends are left searching for answers as to how a seemingly mentally fit young man turned up wed with so much of his life ahead of him.
Dalgleish’s untimely departure may have been the result of a long-term relationship that developed into full-blown marriage, leading to a severely altered lifestyle for the former sports fan and one-time independent thinker.
“I had noticed differences.” said Steve Russam. “He never used to be bothered about breaking his fingers while playing football but lately he seemed to be worried about how it would effect his dish washing ability.”
John Myles first noticed Dalgleish in his basement and found him unresponsive to repeated requests to watch the game. “He just sat there saying he would have to check with someone named Jill. That’s when we started to fear he was wed and gone forever.”
Dalgleish is survived by many bachelor friends.
Relationships affect more than 20 million British men, with 65 percent of those cases developing into advanced-stage marriage. Marriage can spring up suddenly in men and often affects a sufferer’s ability to make autonomous decisions and fraternize with other men.
The company I work for in their infinte wisdom have decided to change their authentication methods for LDAP. The change iinvolves restricting binds to sessions which are connected over SSL instead of normal LDAP connections.
This seems sensible enough but when you have 8 bajillion applications all using different authentication mechanisms (but still tied to LDAP) and all suing different languages then it becomes a bit of a nightmare ot have to convert them all over when you’re a one man team!
In particular i’ve been having major problems the last two weeks getting perl’s Net::LDAP module to securely connect probably due to issues with dependencies on the box it’s running from. A breakthrough today though was to actually get OpenSSL to successfully connect on it’s own so I’m finally making progress at least after almost 2 weeks of banging my head against a brick wall. I’m probably gonna have to back out IO:Socket:SSL and Net::SSLeay though as i’m sure that they havent been installed/built properly and thats whats causing the issues.
Oh well back to the grind
Edit : This was supposed to be posted two days ago but i forgot to publish it….noob! So by way of an update I finally got this all working today after a full 2 weeks of banging my head against a brick wall. Ironically, the perl code I wrote at the very start was fine (so i wasted about 3 days playing around with that!) and it was issues with the build of OpenSSL and the perl modules that was causing problems in addition to some certificate snafu’s. All sorted now so i’m off to plan my weekend of kilt hunting for the fast approaching Steve and Jill’s wedding.
For the past week or so i’ve been playing around with jQuery at work since discovering it when searching for themes/plugins/etc for here and I have to say that it’s pretty nice. It really takes the pain out of writing some pretty nifty javascript code for all sorts of stuff. The best bit about it is the way you can chain the methods together to make compact and easy to understand code that does in a few lines what you may have had to previously write 10+ lines.
I’ve been testing it in a dev version of one of my apps at work trying to integrate it into the existing session and template management i wrote last year and it works pretty well. I’m also loving the way that the app is now seeing signs of progressive enhancement using the jQuery functions without any impact to the functionailty for anyone that can/wont run the javascript.
All in all…very nice!
Funny | jmyles, Sun 27th April 2008 @ 6:00 am | 
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