Roman Numerals
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I have been trying to find a way to include roman numerals on my blog. You think it wouldn't be that hard, but it is.
Looking at the script I am currently using to convert my English dates to Latin ones and then looking at what I have learned about php so far, I am suprised this works at all.
(My call in for the date should not work to display a day of the week, technically, and yet it does, why?)
Recently, I found a perl module written with all the information to display my dates as the ancient romans would have (in the strictest sense). What is the ides of March anyway? And how come for three days at a time it isn't a month at all? And wouldn't that piss off some poor girl who got cheated out of a birthstone because of the system?
Unfortunately the plugin the guy wrote to go with it is for Bloxsom, which is sort of like a flower only not. It's actually a publishing system, like Movable Type, only not it's not quite that either.
Using this handy already written perl module to create a wicked and stunningly brilliant plugin for Movable Type is the logical next step but for one insy tinsy little problem. I can't write a plugin. I don't know perl (or whatever). I'm just not at the stage in my education yet or something because it all looks like greek (latin?) to me.
Normally when this happens I shrug my shoulders and then get distracted by something shiny and forget about it for a while. Then I come back six months smarter and go, "Oh! Now I get it..."
Now it's just a matter of something shiny coming along... Oh, look!
Posted by Bitsy at 06:20 PM Comments
The Ides of March is the day that Julies Cesar was done in. It is remember partly because a soothsayer warned Julies by saying "beware the Ides of March, beware the Ides of March ". If he had I wonder how today would be different
Posted by: Walt on November 4, 2004 09:14 AM
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