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Friday, March 16
Cry or Laugh
One of the charms that I miss from my years of living in Bermuda is the local daily paper, the Royal Gazette. In some respects, it was like a high school newspaper, only with a larger budget, and published daily. The production quality was professional enough, but the journalism succeeded in being unintentionally hilarious day after day. From bad headlines, to funny copy phrasing, to incomplete or inaccurate articles there was always something in each issue. When I first got to Bermuda and was exposed to the Gazette, I was horrified. What was the point of reading such a bad paper? After awhile, when I stopped comparing the Gazette to the New York Times (or even USA Today) and ceased looking to it for journalism and instead as a source of entertainment, I became a fan. I don't read the Gazette anymore even though there is an online version. It's not the same. Luckily, the Gazette doesn't have an exclusive lock on unintentional humor and accidental irony. '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |