Good afternoon. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here.
About the fruitfly: Whether the fruitfly entertains or annoys, it serves a very real and useful purpose. Often referred to as sentinelware, the image is generated by the output of many, many active server monitoring processes. When any abnormal server activity is detected by the "fly controller" system, the fly's appearance deviates from the default, and a system exception raises a flag that is immediately addressed by the humans who monitor the server via the fruitfly's movements and morphology. Until fairly recently, server issues weren't always obvious, and if so, isolating and mending them was a tedious exercise. The fruitfly technology has made the plight of the server technicians much more bearable. And now you know the fly story. If the fruitfly annoys you, click in the center of the lens flare to swat it.
Today is Sunday, the 19th day of July and the 199th day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 5th day of Av in the year 5786.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 5 days, 6 hours, and 33 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Wednesday, August 12th at 9:11 PM. The next full moon will occur on Wednesday, July 29th at 2:49 AM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the constellation of Cancer.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:27 AM
and
8:22 PM,
giving us 13 hours and 55 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1941, the BBC World Service began playing a new audio network identification audio ID, which was a tympani rendition of the familiar rhythm of the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The rhythm, if interpreted as Morse Code, was the letter V, which the British and other European listeners interpreted as an abbreviation for \"victory.\" The practice continued until the War was over.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Johann Gottlieb Schneider (1797), Samuel Colt (1814), Edgar Degas (1834), Lizzie Borden (1860), Charles Horace Mayo (1865), Louis Zimmermann (1873), George McGovern (1922), Sofia Muratova (1929), George Hamilton IV (1937), Vikki Carr (1941), George Dzundza (1945), Brian May (1947), Howard Schultz (1953), Campbell Scott (1961), Anthony Edwards (1962), Chris Kratt (1969), and Steven Anthony Lawrence (1990).
Television is the first truly democratic culture--the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Groucho Marx
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand PHP scripting. The code tightly integrates computed and imported data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The birthdays, history section and the text below--which all change daily--are from an in-house database. Raw data used in the financial and weather sections is imported at page generation time. All the other data, particularly the celestial stuff, is derived and rendered by several hundred lines of code at the time the page is generated at the Linux/Apache server.
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