I’ve recently come upon two Ajax-like techniques that violate the letter of the Ajax law, but also make things a lot easier. Technique #1: Forget the Callback All of the Ajax tutorials and frameworks I’ve looked at use the callback approach. The […]
I just got this message from my friend at Bravo: From: <removed> To: klep Subject: Re: What’s up? Dude, you think you’re kidding, but they’ve got this reality show thing down to a science. There’s a form that you fill out to […]
My wireless network seemed slow this evening, so I decided to take a peek at the DHCP clients. I had kept my network open for several reasons, and sure enough, several sketchy computers seemed to be sucking up bandwidth. Reversing my “every […]
Contrary to any potentially logical explanation, my fear of holding babies had nothing to do with dropping them. I was more afraid of a perfectly calm child being handed to me and deciding to go into his or her freak out state. […]
ScrapBook is the best FireFox extension ever written. It lets you select bits of a web page (including structure, formatting, images, etc.) and save them into hierarchically organized locally stored clippings. You can edit them, arrange them, highlight excerpts, add notes, etc. […]
Working with two separate compact flash cards was a little more complexity than I could handle in India. Due to a mixup with filenames, I ended up overwriting 78 pictures that Marni and I took between Agra and Jaipur. Luckily, I discovered […]
I don’t travel much because I don’t like to go more than a day or two without checking the mail. I also don’t like being in places where I don’t know the language and have to do math to figure out how […]
It’s nice to know that should anything happen with my current Marni, another is just a click away. Is there anything that can’t be bought on the Internet?
Please remove the sarcasm from my previous post about Ajax. I won’t go so far as to say that I have reversed my opinion, but I will admit that I was focusing on the wrong part of Ajax. I am currently building […]
Last week, I received this coupon for matzo at the Safeway checkout. All I had purchased that day was a container of Safeway brand Butternut Squash soup — hardly the epitome of Jewish food. What possible reason could Safeway have for giving […]