As I mentioned before, I was going to buy an ‘88 MR2. Unfortunately, that fell through. The seller (after shattering one of the T-Tops while showing me the car) decided to flush the radiator. Unfortunately, he airlocked it, overheated the engine, and blew a head gasket. So no MR2 for me.
Next, I found an ‘86 [...]

jQuery is something I’ve been wanting for a while now. It lets you use XPath and CSS selectors to manipulate the DOM in JavaScript. It’s got some quirks, but it’s vastly better than mucking around with getElementsByTagName() and loops. You can easily get the node(s) you want with one line of XPath instead.
It’s not perfect. [...]

Mine’s ordered. His Jobsness says they will have four hours of battery life, which is close to the same as what the old ones get. The new Lithium Ion Polymer batteries should last about five times as long as the old Lithium Ion batteries in the PowerBook G4 (in overall life of the battery, [...]

As many people expected, Apple announced their first Intel Macs today. The models they announced were not quite what was expected, though.
To my delight, the 15″ Pro notebook (now called the MacBook Pro instead of Powerbook - vomit) was announced in dual-core 1.67 & 1.83ghz configurations, as well as 1.83 & 2.0ghz dual-core iMacs. I [...]

One of the things that has always bugged me about Slashdot is the gratuitous use of quasi-interrogatory headlines. That is to say, a truly vast number of their headlines have a question mark needlessly suffixed. I find this tiny issue to be astonishingly irritating; few (if any) of the headlines are structured as questions, so [...]