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I’ve been following Le Tour again this year.  Previously, the aerial shots of France kept my attention, but this year I have been interested in the  competition.  I’ve found the mini-goals and side stories are as good as the goal of le maillot jeune. Anyway, I try to avoid re-posting the “hot link of the […]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Django.  Because of that, I’ve been looking at a few different books on the subject.  I first started out with the Django Book, which took me a few days to read.  I can’t say I absorbed it all, but I got the general idea.  Then […]

Happy July 4th!  Now, with that out of the way… My sister Tania was at the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating competition today.  She was happy with the result, I was rooting for Kobayashi.  Oh well.  My roommate was rather disgusted by the whole thing.  Me?  I found myself REALLY wanting a hot dog. Speaking of […]

I’m officially (at this moment) down to three bugs on my project at work.  This means… that I am almost ready to resume my life, as well as writing here… for the first time in 6 straight months.  I’ll be taking some (much needed) vacation time at some point, but am anxiously looking forward to […]

Happy Regular Expressions Day Everyone!!!

After spending a small part of my evening debugging Javascript in IE (which is ALWAYS a pleasure), I found out one of my errors was a mistake I had made before… trying to access button.value in IE.  IE, of course, being IE, returns the innerHTML value of the button, instead of the value attribute.  Last […]

I’m pretty happy with Flickr’s new video service… I took this video back at the beginning of Feb, and tried to upload it to YouTube, where it was promptly rejected for being in the wrong format. I didn’t want to bother converting it, so I just forgot about it for a while. Flickr, on the […]

Until further notice; learn python. It is a hybrid language, and it is gives a reasonably un-biased PLT context.

My friend Raluca just wrote me this tweet…  saying “I just found the funniest comic that someone made about @edwelker”.  The scary part is that I never told her that I actually did that…

I just finished writing a not-so-simple, not-so-complex PHP script.  First, lemme say that I had a good time with it, since it isn’t either XSLT or Portal (my workplace’s homebrew) code.  It’s kinda refreshing to look outside of my multi-month project.  Exciting, in fact… despite how insignificant (in the grand scheme of things) it is. […]

I have no time for anything! This is how I usually feel. There are so many things in the world that I want to do/know about, and yet they all take time to do/learn. I don’t have any big to-dos that eat large chunks of my time either… I work, I have my orchestra, I […]

My new resolution: learn how to take better photographs, simply to reduce the time I spend editing them! I’ve decided that once I do that, I will retire my Olympus C-8080, and move on to a Digital SLR. Reviews are mixed (at best) about the E-3, and I may like something better than the E-510. […]

I’ve always been a fan of the <label> element. It’s an incredibly simple way to make a form more accessible. It does two things: It explicitly associates text with a form element, so a screenreader doesn’t have to guess what text goes with what form element. For checkboxes/radio buttons, it gives the user a larger […]

So I guess it’s simply the time of year. Many big releases today… software, APIs, and more! First, the biggest. IE8 has been released in initial beta. The release was also included a general overview of IE8’s new features and fixes. It’s actually quite a lot of information to absorb all at once. I’ve skimmed […]

My IE8 happiness was so yesterday.  Now let’s tear all these browsers apart, IE8 included, with the Acid3 test!