As a result, I've started dreaming in Perl. My scripts are made possible by constant reference to the Camel book, and also with invaluable help from Tim Newsham, whose UNIX proficiency I envy.

Some examples? Well, there was this cool self-referential mailer hack I did for the Travel Information Center of Hawaii. It runs itself once to get the variables, then again with POST method to format them into legible Email. Often, the calculating order forms we use have to be modified pretty extensively. Along those lines is the cool shopping-basket style cgi called Vend I implemented for Wa Nui Records, Jason's record label. Thank Bog I didn't have to write it though. :-) You might also find the CNN Radio homepage interesting, but only if you have Netscape 1.1.

You see, we run Netscape Commerce Server Version 1.1, and as such, the part of me which is a html.pedant watches in horror as we use more and more Netscapisms. Until such time, however, as the HTML 3.0 Spec is officially released, we'll stumble along as best we can.

I tried to make this program return your email address, but it's not a universally passed environment variable, like the rest of them. SO if you want to find out the Email addresses of everyone accessing your pages, you have to specifically ask for it. Even then there's no guarantee that they won't lie to you. Get over it.

I've also made a database program for our search engine. It hasn't been 'officially' released yet, so you who are looking at this page are the first to see it in action. Please email me if you have implemented a similar thing for your site, or if you have questions about how this one works.