Incredible, clever, simple looking demo: http://demo.nomadeditions.com/real-eats/index.html

<?php

  $fc = file_get_contents('./test.txt');
  $fc = utf8_encode ( $fc );
	$lines = explode("\n", $fc);

  $html = '<select>';
  foreach($lines as $line)
     $html .= '<option value="' . $line . '">' . $line . '</option>';

  $html .= '</select>';
  echo $html;
?>

My only issue was with UTF-8 characters coming through garbled. Bodged a workaround using this encode entities plug-in for Dreamweaver.

The fix

Thanks to my colleague Aleksej for finding the answer for me. Just uncheck “scrubby zoom” in the contextual menu at the top of your Photoshop window!

Your friend and mine [Google] says an acquaintance [Microsoft] has been copying their search results in order to get curried flavour [surely carry favour]. More details on the BBC and at a web-nag near you…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597

Hohoho.

Oh dear.

A piece on how retarded Microsoft’s latest incarnation of Internet Explorer may turn out to be, despite the hype:

http://css3wizardry.com/2010/08/14/ie9-is-the-ie6-of-css3/

Oh dear.

<?php wp_head(); ?>

before any jQuery scripts (or concatenated scripts in my case).

It’s been hours and I couldn’t figure out why none of the Carousel scripts I was trying today wanted to work – while all other scripts and plugins carried on just fine.

And yes – I am already trying to prevent jQuery conflicts with

<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>

So if your carousel (or other) scripts don’t want to work – try shaking up your head.

And Mr Stobist — thanks for introducing me to the work of a great modern photographer (modern with a small M) and reintroducing me to Wired.

Finally some ornamental inspiration via BrandSpankingNew.

Back to work…