Monday, August 22, 2005
a tad technie
I know I pronounced myself "so not a technie" recently, but I did the techniest, computer-geekest thing just now.
I was trying to enter myself into some NETS contest to win premiere tickets to Cirque du Soleil's Quidam (because I'm a cheapskate with desires).
The online contest form was straightforward (although it did request for my NRIC number) so I filled it in with no problem at all. Then I clicked submit and got javascript-prompted to enter a "valid name".
How odd is that. What's so invalid about my name!
Insulted but undeterred, I tried again this time with my full name as in NRIC (the way all government bodies like it). Still "invalid".
At this point I started thinking I must be an illegal immigrant with a fake BC and fake NRIC and fake CPF account.
I try a few more times.
Last Name First Name
Last Name First Name Middle Name (!)
When finally I could take it no longer, four years of tertiary education kicked in and I decided to view the source code of this lousy contest form.
In 30 seconds, I realised why javascript found my name invalid. It has a hyphen in it. Which the script believes to be an invalid character for a name.
Well, excuse me!
So anyhow, because I have little conviction and a growing desire to watch Quidam, I entered my full name minus the hyphen. Which actually is the lazy way I've been spelling my name.
It still freaks me alittle the way I decided to get round this problem - viewing the source code, not dropping the hyphen. So I guess in little ways, I'm still a tad technie.
// posted by the commentator @ 2:34 pm 
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