Archive for October, 2006

IE’s retarded script behavior

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Just got bitten by this IE 6 bug. I had an external script which I included. It bound a click on an element to a function which toggles the visibility of another element.
For some reason, events were being delivered twice when I clicked the toggle element. Well, it turns out that:

My <script> element was a [...]

Overheard in the hallway

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

“Oh, man. Sixteen hundred pound woman with a boyfriend? Oh, man.”

iTunes stuff

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Lately, I’ve been going through my entire iTunes library and organizing things. I’ve got cover art for most of my music now, and lyrics to a large portion thanks to Harmonic. The larger task has been my goal to rate every track in my library; no small task with the 3,500+ songs I have to [...]

Emacs has warped my brain

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

It’s true, it’s true. For years, I’ve heard grizzled old UNIX guys talk about how horrible the placement of Caps Lock is, and how Control should be there instead. The rationale being that it was used so often in Emacs (as well as any app using libreadline) that it made sense to move it closer [...]