When a program is run using backticks, and the user cancels page loading
(if your program is taking too long!), the shell running the program (the
one in the backticks) may continue indefinitely on the server. I do not
know if this is a bug, or just a danger of using this feature. (It may
depend on the way the browser "cancels" the request -- it was a
problem on both IE and OmniWeb for the Mac). Beware!